is growing up tougher for boys or girls?
105507
On the whole its neither the girls nor the boys\nIts the PARENTS
312954
I think society has made boys stronger emotionally, but that isn't always necessarily the case.  I'll never forget the day my dad broke down when it was time to close my grandmother's casket.  Even the strongest person can't hold it together all of the time.
961358
From a teacher's point of view, students certainly behave differently in single - sex classes.  I am a male teaching high school classes, and I have found that girls are more likely to be discipline problems when there are no boys in the classroom.  Boys are a little rougher in single sex classes, but are not distracted as easily.  All in all, I'd rather teach classes with both boys and girls.  This is just the result of my personal observation.
69846
The fact that boys are at a lower psychological level than girls. Guess I'll have to wait until they mature...
73015
Its the same with BOYS..\nTIME, experience, LIFE, the ability to deal with problems and solve them, basic controls of your environment, knowing SELF(who you are, what you are, what you DONT want to be, and how to change it), being your OWN worst critic(before others do it for you).\nMaking rules for your OWN life and living by them, and knowing WHY they are there, and you can justify EACH one.\nRESPECT for self, because if you dont have any, you cant GIVE respect to others.\nKnowing that Life in School, at your parents, and NOT in those places is ALL different.\nAND\nLearning to live on your OWN, and succeding.\nIn my life, I have learned that if you havent reached 25 and living on your own for at least 5 of those years, you havent learned ENOUGH.
36366
Generally girls are far more verbal and conversational at an earlier age.  This makes them appear much smarter than boys of the same age in social situations.  Women are more intuitive and practical, less theoretical than men.  This is a wise provision of our creators, I have come to think.\n\nGuy are more interested in inanimate materials and on the average are more logical than intuitive.  Guys develop more slowly, but they have to keep working when they are the same age as gals who are having children.  So guys have a longer learning experience that does not involve the experience of childbearing (pregnancy).  Therefore, it appears that men know more about other things as time wears on.\n\nBut this is not always the case in the modern world.  Sometimes the wife is a doctor who works and the man takes care of the kids.\n\nThe angels say that men and women are equal but different enough so that they will never completely understand each other.\n\nI think women take offense easier because they are more emotionally sensitive.  So, nice men like me are careful how they talk to women when we become older and wiser.\n\nI guess this is not a very satisfactory answer, but I am 61 and a man who has thought about it a lot.  I am certainly not stupid, look here:\n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/ki_te_moana\n\nbut when I was younger, I think the gals were far ahead of me.\n\nGods plan is for us to be equal.  So we probably are in ways which we do not quite understand.\n\nI only wrote about what I know for sure.\n\nI don't know everything either.
401542
I think it has to do with reproduction and development.  Girls need to mature faster both mentally and physically in order to be viable birthing chambers at a sooner age. While boys are expendable and worthless in the scheme of things so nature has given them more time to develop viable social skills so they can contribute to survival of the women.
552708
I doubt the mood of girls changes significantly more frequently than that of boys, but it's likely they display their moods more clearly, and take them more seriously.  During puberty, estrogen surges can cause fairly dramatic mood swings, but then again, so can testosterone-they are just different moods.
814287
according to all the sources and statistics i've read, and people i've been around, girls. but you see the thing is, it isn't about who's smarter. most girls work harder. they are more disciplined, more focused, more articulate, more goal-oriented, more articulate, more serious, and are given the better training. it is sad, but true. the girls also use more of their brain. these are the reasons why they produce better work.\n\ni would really love to see boy children get better training (and love), being more serious, strive to be the best, strive for excellence, instead of the macho man crap. we'd do better.
529709
Because older girls are harder to get and more experienced sexually.
299743
some girls can rap better then some boys.. id say in general boys are probably better because they often practice more often. girls are used to carefully considering what they say before they start, while guys just let things spill out - which is more helpful in rap.
796616
depends which society u're talking about...different cultures rear their men differently....but generally women tend to be more emotional and feelings-based than men.
40993
Men mature slower than women. Sorry to say, some boys are like that in college too. However, they do mature, sooner or later. It seems like they are so childlike because us girls have matured earlier so their acts seem childish.
163792
umm it varies a lot. i think girls typically start fighting more in middle school when it is usually over guys. i had my first when i was only 9 though, and my sister was even a little younger.\ni would say in middle school or later it is usually about boys, before that it is usually something else like bullying or something.
411048
Growing up doesn't necessarily mean growing up as in height.  To me it's more about maturing.
34695
Well, it depends. You probably say girls do because, well, (I hope) don't have experience w/ being a guy. Same with guys, just the other way around. But in my opinion, it's a tie, for certain reasons. Girls start stressing and horomonal changes when they are rather young. But guys don't until they're like 50! (kidding, but it's a long time, compared to girls anyway) But on the guys side, they tend to be more athletic compared to girls, not saying girls aren't!, but they do seem to be more athletically prepared than most girls. But there again, guys don't seem as smart as most girls, more academically challenged! So I leave it to you to decide, and most people are surprised by this, but I'm ten.
85612
at younger ages the male mental development is slightly different than the female development.  Ages 4 - 9 females generally have it easier comprehending writing and reading, where as males are more mechanismly inclined.  A boy is more apt to be interested in how something works earlier, and a girl will generally learn to read first.\n   And this question is not only asked in grade school, it's asked by psychologists around the world to better understand human development, and when the best time to start teaching which curiculum at what time in the teaching process.\n    After about age 16 - 22 most females and males in learning patterns are close to the same (averagly speaking)