The differences between Boys and Girls.
To better understand your child's behavior, it's helpful yo understand the differences between boys and girls. This information can help you distinguish between normal behavior and those that need to be addressed as discipline issues. Knowing the natural differences between boys and girls can also help you avoid comparing your different-sex children.
*Boys prefer to focus on a single task, and they React more aggressively to interruptions.
*Girls' 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 object 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.
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