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I don't even care to read the article but I will say from personal experience, I was hell on earth in my teen years, my brother was easy, super easy, he is now 18 and all hell has broken loose.
So it all varies, I got easier as I got older and my brother got a lot worse.
I guess because I only have girls, I feel like boys can get into lots more trouble. Boys play sports where they get hurt, they like to skateboard, you have to worry about them joining a gang, they can get many girls pregnant in a year, where once a girl gets pregnant, that's not going to happen again for at least a year. Boys also do stupid things once they can drive, with their cars and anyone else's who is dumb enough to loan it to them. When I met my husband, he was still getting people's pickup trucks stuck in creeks and other asinine things.
My kids aren't teenagers yet, I guess we'll see how things change once they hit their teens. My oldest is 10, she's already prone to fits of drama where she declares that I am too old to understand her, that nobody knows what she's going through, that nobody cares, etc. Which usually makes me want to laugh, because it's about such a simple problem (a pimple, having to start wearing deodorant, etc) and I know there are worse things to come.
I don't even care to read the article but I will say from personal experience, I was hell on earth in my teen years, my brother was easy, super easy, he is now 18 and all hell has broken loose.
So it all varies, I got easier as I got older and my brother got a lot worse.
Both can be hard. Girls, in their teenage years, are like this "no mom! I LOVE HIM. You just don't understand!" and boys tend to be "mom, I love her and you can't stop me."
Just kidding. Seriously, if you are in a family of 7 girls...I think you'll understand.
I'm not reading the article either because keeping girls on a shorter leash makes no sense at all. What kind of dolt would think you can allow boys to stay out later and have few or no rules?
No wonder you see more boys ending up stabbed and shot, involved in gangs, and completely pathetic as parents to their own children. I see no reason at all to distinguish and protect one child more because of gender and let the other child run wild because of gender. Protect your children and love them the same.
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