Boys and girls

It was if a different species had decided to sit together and for a time combine.

Two little boys with their mother, and two little girls with their mother sit together for a meal. The children were well behaved but, to type, the boys were noisy demanding that their mother pay attention to what they had to say, whilst the girls, much more demure much more polished in the way they saw themselves, sat quietly observant, were well on the way to being the finished product.

 Behaviour is taught, its imbibed by instruction. Boys are much less encouraged to follow some party line, they are given a free rein to learn by experience, to assimilate the result of their actions, good or bad and to bear the consequences.



Little girls are much more cosseted, for them the learning curve is far less open to chance. They are perceived to be at risk, they have to be chaperoned. The outcome of the way they behave and the way they look, what they wear and how to present themselves is a matter of great importance to a parent.

The boy can fall and they are expected to pick themselves up, the boys dynamic is that of being an individual, or at least that of self sufficiency, he has no one to blame if he doesn't succeed.
The girls, even in today's enlightened society are considered the weaker sex and therefore accumulate more protective and supportive points than a brother.
The girls learn to become shrewd, old beyond their years, they evaluate the opportunities that their situation provides whilst the boys are left to be,  just boys.
This promotes more self awareness in the girls, who, used to the attention, evolve a sense of their importance to others, whilst the boy gets on with his life, often feeling somewhat of an outsider until reaching adulthood, when at last  he  can assert himself fully.