Boys will be boys, and girls will be girls....
As my friend ElDuderino well knows... I am, on the other hand, "blessed" on a daily basis with only the fairer sex at home.....
"Biology’s Revenge: Christina Hoff Sommers was right."
"The surest way to get attention in American society is to become a crisis. Boys are now on their way to achieving this dubious but indispensable distinction with the new cover of Newsweek, 'The Boy Crisis.'
It is to be hoped that the crisis establishes a simple truth that is astonishing anyone ever forgot — boys and girls are different. Or as Newsweek puts it, 'Boys are biologically, developmentally and psychologically different from girls — and teachers need to learn how to bring out the best in every one.'
A crisis always needs its own politically correct argot. A neurologist quoted in Newsweek takes a step toward establishing one here with his statement, 'Very well-meaning people have created a biologically disrespectful model of education." Thus, the boy-in-crisis has a rallying cry, "Don't disrespect my biology!'...
...[Some] educational theorists argue that boys would be fine if they could be made more touchy-feely. But Christina Hoff Sommers, who wrote the prescient The War Against Boys five years ago, calls boys 'the last of a vanishing breed of Americans who don't want to spend a lot of time talking about their feelings.' Instead of trying to change that, we should accept boys for who they are.
What we have witnessed recently — with more evidence of the differences between men and women, and the importance of the old-fashioned two-parent family — is biology's revenge. If we deny what is deep-down in our nature, people get hurt — in this case, the rambunctious boys missing out on the great adventure that is learning."
http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=/lowry/lowry200601240828.asp
"Biology’s Revenge: Christina Hoff Sommers was right."
"The surest way to get attention in American society is to become a crisis. Boys are now on their way to achieving this dubious but indispensable distinction with the new cover of Newsweek, 'The Boy Crisis.'
It is to be hoped that the crisis establishes a simple truth that is astonishing anyone ever forgot — boys and girls are different. Or as Newsweek puts it, 'Boys are biologically, developmentally and psychologically different from girls — and teachers need to learn how to bring out the best in every one.'
A crisis always needs its own politically correct argot. A neurologist quoted in Newsweek takes a step toward establishing one here with his statement, 'Very well-meaning people have created a biologically disrespectful model of education." Thus, the boy-in-crisis has a rallying cry, "Don't disrespect my biology!'...
...[Some] educational theorists argue that boys would be fine if they could be made more touchy-feely. But Christina Hoff Sommers, who wrote the prescient The War Against Boys five years ago, calls boys 'the last of a vanishing breed of Americans who don't want to spend a lot of time talking about their feelings.' Instead of trying to change that, we should accept boys for who they are.
What we have witnessed recently — with more evidence of the differences between men and women, and the importance of the old-fashioned two-parent family — is biology's revenge. If we deny what is deep-down in our nature, people get hurt — in this case, the rambunctious boys missing out on the great adventure that is learning."
http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=/lowry/lowry200601240828.asp
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