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So I was walking out the door for work this morning and

Siro said:
And since we're on the subject of sex differences, are there any physical differences between boys and girls at a young age (apart from the obvious)? Say, around 6 years old or so? Or do they begin differentiating closer to puberty I've always wondered about that.
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I find that girls have longer hair and are often more petite.... And cleaner
 
Siro said:
And in your experience, these personality traits are apparent even as babies or toddlers?
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I think you start to see some diferentiating when they are toddlers. What cartoons they like, colors, toys, activities, games...

Now this is all generalized and any individual can like any combination.
 
fishonjazz said:
I find that girls have longer hair
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I'm talking more about natural physiological differences. Like, do they have different percentage of muscle mass, bone density, etc, that you can outwardly see.
 
Siro said:
I'm talking more about natural physiological differences. Like, do they have different percentage of muscle mass, bone density, etc, that you can outwardly see.
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Hmm...probably not that early. At least from my experience.
 
Stoked said:
Hmm...probably not that early. At least from my experience.
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Ah, okay. I asked my mom (I'm only male with 5 sisters), and she said boys are probably a bit bigger and thicker even at young age. But she didn't seem entirely sure.
 
Siro said:
I'm confused. People think there are innate personality differences between baby boys and baby girls?
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In my experience there are absolutely innate differences between the sexes from a very early age. I have 0 guns in our home. When we go to my inlaws the only thing he wants to do is play with the guns and pretend to shoot them. He loves smashing things. He loves dirt and bugs and biting and things people associate with boy things.

My daughter has ALWAYS been a priss. Loved dolls from birth basically. Very nurturing. Hates being dirty.

I absolutely think there are a ton of innate personality trait differences between the sexes from birth.
 
Siro said:
Ah, okay. I asked my mom (I'm only male with 5 sisters), and she said boys are probably a bit bigger and thicker even at young age. But she didn't seem entirely sure.
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Over all? Possibly. It does make a kind of sense that they would be bigger overall. But my experiences have been to few and unfocused on that to reach any firm conclusion.

My little boy is just packing it on and just seems a lot bigger for his age then his sisters used to be.
 
Beer said:
I have never ever heard anyone say that before. So far my boy, only 18 months mind you, is 1000000000 times easier than my daughter was and is.
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Having guided 2 boys and 2 girls through their teens our experience had been that girls are way easier than boys. But really that means our boys are tougher to deal with than our girls. Everyone's experiences are probably going to differ.
 
Siro said:
I'm talking more about natural physiological differences. Like, do they have different percentage of muscle mass, bone density, etc, that you can outwardly see.
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I don't think so.
Maybe boys have a little more muscle but not much.
 
Differences between the sexes are overblown and exaggerated, from what I've encountered. Way more differences within a sex than b/w them.

The differences between sexes physiologically speaking are only applicable in rather specific circumstances-- with everything else generally being gross generalizations. That's just from what I've seen.
 
Siro said:
I'm confused. People think there are innate personality differences between baby boys and baby girls?
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I don't know if they are innate but I have 1 girl 1 boy and other than looking strikingly similar they are night and day.

Birth weight
Daughter 7lbs 15oz Son 10lbs 0oz

I could tell my daughter not to touch something and she would leave it alone forever. My son will put something back, look at me and clap, then 30 seconds later he will be messin with it again.

When I read to my daughter she would sit on my lap and listen intently pointing at the pages.(now that she's older she snuggles up next to me) My son will take the book from me get off my lap and try to read it himself.

My daughter plays with toys. My son generally just stands on them or tries to see how far he can throw them.
 
dalamon said:
Differences between the sexes are overblown and exaggerated, from what I've encountered. Way more differences within a sex than b/w them.

The differences between sexes physiologically speaking are only applicable in rather specific circumstances-- with everything else generally being gross generalizations. That's just from what I've seen.
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Just as an FYI, you are wrong.
 
My son, at age 1 could knock down 8 footers on his little Nerf hoop and had nearly perfect form for a kid who could barely walk. My three daughters have no desire to pick up a ball and my 15 year old girl still probably couldn't make as many 8 footers on a Nerf hoop as my son used to.

FWIW, I worked just as hard, if not harder on my girls to play sports than my son as I think with work and coaching its easier for girls to stand out.

It's just one experience and they do have my wife's ultra girly genes in them, but in my experience the differences, basically from day one, are stark.
 
oh geez, now I'm gonna have to try to dig up the link to that old Dave Barry column where he writes about taking care of his little daughter while his wife was on a business trip


one of his best ever!

edit: here is is https://thesouthern.com/lifestyles/leisure/dave-barry-playing-princess-instructions-for-dads/article_f9f9df06-9159-5553-be98-31d3f4e92f11.html

[Sun Jul 20 2003]

Hi! How are you? Good! Here is my column! It has short words today. Why? Because I am spending a lot of time with my daughter. Her name is Sophie. She is 3! My wife is a sportswriter. She went to, Paris, France, to write about tennis. She left me as the lone parent. With a 3-year-old! For 16 days! That makes 384 hours. Or 23,040 minutes. But who is counting? Ha ha!

My wife called me. She said it was hard work, sportswriting in Paris, France. I bet! But there is wine there. Not here! Here we drink juice in little boxes decorated with pictures of licensed characters. We drink juice a lot! It is 287 percent sugar. So we have lots of energy! We wake up at 5:45 a.m. no matter what time Daddy got to sleep. Then we watch kids' TV shows starring licensed characters. They learn good lessons: Share! Be nice! Work together! Drink juice!

Daddy wishes there were an early-morning kids' TV show called: "Let's Go Back To Bed." The licensed characters would yawn a lot and say: "I'm tired! Let's all lie down and be very quiet until at least 7:45 a.m.!" Wouldn't that be great? Daddy would send money to that show.

But no. We are wide awake, and it is time to play. All day long we play and play and play! We even play chess! Really! Do you want to know how you play chess with a three-year-old girl? OK! I will tell you:

First you put all the chess pieces on the squares. Then some pieces decide to have a birthday party. They make a circle and sing "Happy Birthday". But they won't let the other pieces come to the party! The other pieces are sad! They are crying and lying down on the chess board! So the Mommy piece tells the birthday-party pieces that they have to let everybody come to the party. Then everybody sings "Happy Birthday" some more times. A lot more times! Everybody is happy! Everybody wins, in chess! Time for more juice!

Our very favorite game to play is Princesses. The Princesses are licensed characters from Disney. Remember the old cartoon stars such as Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Julie Andrews, etc.? They did not have a hit for many years. Their careers were in the toilet! They were working as telemarketers. Then Disney decided to call them "The Princesses." This is called "rebranding." Now they are hot! Princess dolls are very big sellers. We have several hundred. When people ask me: "What kind of floor covering do you have in your home?" I answer: "Princesses." They're everywhere! Sometimes I step on them in my bare feet. Ouch! They have those hard, pointy bosoms, like Barbie. We have plenty of Barbies, too!

Here is how you play Princess: You get a Princess, or a Barbie. Then you brush her hair for a while. Then she gets married. That's it! You don't even need a Prince! Or, sometimes Winnie the Pooh is the Prince. It doesn't matter! It is not about the Prince. It is about the princess...
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Beer said:
Basically boys are destructive, tough, little monsters straight out of the womb. And little girls are cute little lovers as soon as they are born.
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That's way too broad a generalization. For example, I was a very well mannered child. I spent my time reading, playing video games, playing chess, and building epic Lego sets. My oldest sister (oldest among my sisters, but younger than me) was HELL to raise. She was a total bully, getting into fights every day, and always looking for reasons to rebel. According to my parents, I was probably the easiest child.

Looking at my nieces and nephews, it seems like in general, boys are more aggressive and destructive. But since I don't spend a lot of time with them, I was wondering about patterns of behavior from very early childhood, before socialization sets in. I also know that there are some cognitive differences, ON AVERAGE, between boys and girls, like the latter's better speaking and writing ability as young children. But I do not know to what extent these differences exist.
 
Siro said:
Ah, okay. I asked my mom (I'm only male with 5 sisters), and she said boys are probably a bit bigger and thicker even at young age. But she didn't seem entirely sure.
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I'm the only male with 5 sisters bro, that is awesome that you are too.
 
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