by snowbird 14 Replies latest jw friends
In one of his masterful pieces on the Through a Darkened Pane thread, Compound Complex made the following observation:
Boys typically break the rules, do as they please to offend authority and cast aside all well-intended parental dominion.
After witnessing the childhood and adolescence of my two g'sons, I agree with him wholeheartedly.
Do you?
Syl
Thanks, Syl, for posing the question.
Sometimes I write off the top of my head (a potentially bad spot from which to launch) and, later, reexamine what was then my thinking (or, not thinking), puzzled over what I had earlier declared as "truth."
Personally, I was not one ever to defy authority. Was it because I was a child of the 50s, where both "Father Knows Best" and Ward Cleaver held sway as the ultimate in paternal authority figures?
There's so little I really know ...
CoCo
Is it the testosterone in boys that makes them more prone to do whatever they want?
Tee hee hee at CoCo!
I've spoken with others who have made the same observation about boys.
They are soooooooo different from girls.
Syl (who, too, was a model child)
Don't know, Misery.
I just know that they are hard to understand.
I come from a nearly all-female family.
Syl
Boys don't have a monthly cycle to bother them. They don't have to worry about carrying around sanitary items or having to change them every few hours. So they have freedoms from things they have probably never even thought about.
Just a thought.
Girls have testosterone, too. And boys have estrogen.
Thanks, BP and Flyin.'
Syl
In some ways I miss not having had any sons and in some ways I don't.
Little girls don't write their initials in urine from across the bathroom onto clean towels --and wouldn't even if they could.
Little girls don't write their initials in urine from across the bathroom onto clean towels --and wouldn't even if they could.
No, they wouldn't.
Tee hee hee.
Syl
