Caring for Boys vs. Caring for Girls

This series for parents and caregivers outlines the general difference between boys and girls and explains that the key to understanding your child is the ability to recognize these differences.

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• boys
• girls
• child care
• parenting
• gender
• toys
• play
• early learning

[ArtemisWolf841]

@AmarisLeslyn I think this is a big issue if parents are trying to raise a son to understand that it's okay to be "girly"- other kids are going to make fun of him. I'm a girl who played with legos, plastic dinosaurs, and always played with boys, and noone cared. If a girl is denied a "boy thing", may it be a toy or job, it's sexism and everyone makes a big fuss about it. If a boy wears pink and gets bullied? It's okay. I wish people would realize more that sexism goes both ways.

[SarahJ83]

@AmarisLeslyn My apologies if I was insulting there. Let me try to respond to the question you asked in a different way. I would hope that the boy was taught that it doesn't matter what everyone else thinks of him. That he can't always be changing himself to suit everyone elses needs. Although that's a hard lesson to teach and your question definately has merit in that it's typical for softer more emotional expressive boys to be teased by the other kids.

[SarahJ83]

@AmarisLeslyn my son acts in ways that many people would term 'girly' but he's still a boy. Perhaps you need to better define what you call gay. It's narrow minded to think that all boys must behave in a certain way and like certain things and that all girls must behave in a certain way and like certain things.

[pinkmoonmist]

aww..the cutest most well behaved kids!!