Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
IDK about now, but when I was 12, there were hardly any girls with big boobs. Mostly the attention was about cute faces and long hair. I've heard 12-year-old girls are different now. Even 10-year-old girls! Hard to get my mind around that.
lol, I remember when we were 12... the first girl to get boobs... EVERY guy liked her.
While the behavior of the OP's sons might appear to be quaint and callow, it's also fascinating. These kids are substantially more advanced than many men on this forum – men who are 20 or 30 years older. And it's a fascinating laboratory of human behavior, of how groups and cliques coalesce, competition vs. cooperation, formation of a pecking-order, social norms and taboos, loss of erstwhile inhibitions, gain of new ones, response to failure and rejection, steadfastness and surrender. I'd love to have been the proverbial fly on the wall, inconspicuously observing, taking notes. And it's remarkable to me how lifelong modes of behavior, our enduring bases for judgment, the heuristics and assumptions serviceable for a lifetime and recalled even when rapid thought no longer forms, congeal so quickly and so fully even in our early teenage years.
What a beautifully written post (should be on a book jacket!)... I have, surprisingly, observed some pretty advanced maneuvering from the boys. As you mentioned, the pecking-order, cliques, competition/cooperation dynamic is fascinating... like Lord Of The Flies of the early dating world. The maneuvers, which I thought took men many years to acquire, are being adeptly demonstrated by 12-15 year olds, with the evidence documented on group texts. I think it would make a fascinating research project to compile and analyze all the group texts and the strategies/social relationships demonstrated.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
