Difference Raising a Son or Daughter

When it comes to raising a son or daughter everyone has their own opinions about which one is easier to raise. Parents are still raising their children to do activities which are gender specific. Parents should realize that they raise their children, whether boy or girl, very different from the very day that they are born. If you have a daughter then most parents tend to try to always protect her from being hurt by falling down, but if you have a son then most parents tend to encourage him to be rough and tough. In many research studies where toddler boys and girls are watched, they both showed the most interest in toys that were routinely programmed toward girls. Many parents feel that one huge difference between boys and girls would be that boys don’t listen to anything or anyone when you are trying to tell them something.
Scientists and Doctors, such as William McBride, Ph.D. (2005) have proven that boys do not hear as well as girls, and girls hear better and more rapidly than boys. By elementary school, while a boys hearing may be “normal” it still isn’t as attuned as a girls hearing is. The range of hearing studied was that of voice frequency, and this attributes to one of the reason that boys require more hands on learning and discipline than girls do. Parents feel more comfortable up rooting a boy by the hand and dragging him to time our than they do up rooting a girl by her hand and dragging her to time out. Boys represent the larger population who have been diagnosed with behavioral disorders such as ADHD and ADD.
Since boys develop more slowly and don’t hear as well as girls, they develop speech skills more slowly as well. Many factors lead to certain patterns in slow development being seen as a learning disability. The truth is that this behavior may just be normal for the genetic species of male. Boys develop more physically than girls do. Girls may sit quietly investigating the pages of a book, that activity isn’t designed well for the developing

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