[quote=flu]Speaking of kids, sort of hijack. I have a question for parents. Maybe it’s just me, I notice one difference between girls and boys growing up.
See, what I’m seeing is that if boys don’t like each other, they get kinda physical and start pushing each other around or hitting each other. When girls (inclusive of my kid) don’t like each other, they start saying stuff like “I’m not going to be your friend/we’re not going to talk to you.”… Is that consistent with what other parents see?
Second, whenever boys starts pushing my daughter around, she always asks tell me “XYZ pushed me around”. My response has been, “tell me when you get home….Tell him stop. If that doesn’t work, yell at him to stop…If that doesn’t work and you’re bigger than him, push him back. If you’re smaller than him, and he doesn’t stop go find a teacher.” Anything wrong with that? I understand girls might be wired differently, but certainly don’t want my kid growing up with a wussie mentality.[/quote]
It’s consistent with what I see.
Reminds me of an old Seinfeld episode. George and Jerry are remembering a bully from school – they ask Elaine if she ever dealt with bullies… she replies that girls didn’t act that way – if they didn’t like another girl they’d harrass them till they developed an eating disorder.
