Perhaps we need to place more emphasis on teaching boys more literature
and some of things that girls are good at and make the girls do more
sports and practical things. This would benefit both.
It does mean of course no co-ed schools at least till about 15 yrs.

Still, these differences are real and nothing can be done to change it.

When I joined the navy as a very young man, there were just 6 of us, trainee pilots, destined to fly off aircraft carriers if we were good enough to make it through training. We had a lot of introductive lectures, preparing us for the different life a young naval officer would lead to a civilian.

One old captain gave us a lecture on relationships, when you are going to spend a lot of time away on a ship. His advice on marriage was rather blunt. He stated that if a navy man wants to keep his wife, & live a happy life, then he should keep her barefoot & pregnant, at the kitchen sink.

In discussion after the lecture most of us thought either he was joking, or was a bit too extreme.

Interestingly the older I get the more I appreciate the wisdom of his advice. Sorry girls.

yep alot of slander poked at those who take being a wife and mother serious. Most of those who do seem much happier than the nasty feminist who always wants to wear the pants and will never keep a marriage together unless they marry a lettuce leaf.

Newsflash Guys,

In today's world very few families can survive on
just one income. Many females work not because
they want to but because they don't have choice.

As for teaching our children?

I would think it is the environment that we create for
our children that has the greatest impact on the way
they learn and what they learn. And as they grow older,
their home environment, their interests, their peers
have the greatest influence over their behaviour.

By the time children reach the ages of 15 plus, the
differences between boys and girls are very subtle.
Understanding these subtle differences can help
educators guide their students in a positive way,
meeting them and their needs where they are.

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Dear Peter (the author),

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The differences that the evocation of your subject brings to my mind are more of the nature of anatomy and physiological psychology.

I am no expert on human ethology by any means, but I have personally observed a far greater degree of same-gender compatibility in children of both sexes prior to puberty than I have following puberty – especially among sisters.

I have in mind my own family, spanning three generations, which, naturally, may not be at all representative of the average Australian family. Nevertheless, I see no reason to think that it is totally different either.

Somehow, it seems to me that puberty has not only an important physiological effect on girls but also a very strong psychological effect, such, that two sisters living together in the same family (much more so than two brothers) who may have been perfectly compatible up until that point, thereinafter become almost as incompatible as the like poles of two magnets.

I should be interested to have your and any other online opinionator’s views and experiences on this if you and they would be kind enough to share them with me.

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Look at the nuts and bolts of the sitution. If schools are to teach boys and girls differently, what does that mean for the schools themselves? Does that mean schools will be seperated into a school for boys, and a school for girls? Does that mean different curriculum for boys and girls? Where they are actually taught differently based on a different curriculum? Or does that mean nothing at all? Just an extra burden for teachers to carry with no actual tools and support to help them out?

I remember in school they taught about different learning styles, and how effective teachers try to incorporate all three types of learning styles so that the majority of the students have the best chance to learn and retain what they are taught. The three that were taught were listening, reading, and hands on. (Listen to the teacher, read from a textbook, and do the assignments for hands on).

If boys and girls are to be taught differently, then it might just mean to add a different method in the teaching curriculum, so that the subject matter has the best chance to be reached by most of the students. Anything more then that is asking for separate classes or separate schools for boys and girls just so the teachers have the time and resources to teach effectively and cover the material needed to be covered in a semester.

Talk about the details of the matter. What does this mean for the teachers and the schools.

Treat boys and girls differently. That's fine. Teach them differently, and the situation requires much more planning to achieve it.