Difference Between Boys and Girls
Taken from Discipline without Shouting or Spanking, the points below are actually pretty accurate based on my own experiences:
- Boys prefer to focus more on a single task and they react more aggressively to interruptions.
- Girl’s motor activities peak less quickly, are less vigorous and last longer.
- Boys create and play games that fill larger spaces, and they need to be outside more.
- Girls’ attention to objects is less fleeting and less active.
- Girls rely more on their five senses.
- Boys do better with visual information presented to the left eye, which feeds the right hemisphere.
- By age five, girls are six months ahead of boys in general development.
- Boys who see themselves as physically strong will seek rough and tumble play.
- Boys who feel safe and competent will seek independence earlier than girls.
*These differences are broad generalizations based on the vast amount of research on the development of boys and girls. Individual children may vary from these tendencies.
April 16, 2008 | Filed Under Parenting
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