how does the boys and girls club effect adolescent development?
362837
I was a councilor at the Boys and Girls Club. I liked helping out there because it gives kids a place to feel like they can be themselves without being judged. They have contests and your kid can win prizes and the councilors play games and interact with the kids. It helps develop really good communication skills and teaches kids how to let out aggression the healthy way. I would seriously recommend this group to anyone.
1111872
It's true, some communities run the young men out of town when they are teenagers...to keep the old lecherous man:young girl ratio manageable.\n\nIt's really sad what happens to these boys. For more information, click on: http://www.getadad.org/
89771
Yes, boys are labeled as weak or girlie if they don't want to drink. Drugs are a little more extreme, but I think it would be easier to pressure a guy into it. All it would take is a little questioning of the masculinity.
948258
I think it's a great idea, although I wouldn't agree to a board proposing that all schools be same-sex. It changes the social dynamics so much and in a positive way, usually, especially at the junior high and high school levels. The girls don't have to worry about the boys making fun of them when they start \n'developping' and hit puberty and the girls don't have to be so catty towards each other in terms of male attention. The boys won't spend their time trying to be all macho in front of girls or checking the girls out or stuff like that.
1141983
I think this is a very good idea.  You need to start with the administration of the High School and the targeted elementary schools, if you want to get anywhere.  You also might be able to bring something like this into a local Boys & Girls Club.
162117
According to this website:\nhttp://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/0111.htm\nat puberty, the bodies of males are producing more testosterone, which leads to greather muscle development and bone growth, while the bodies of females are devoting their strength to pelvic bone growth and fat storage around the hips and thighs.  \n\nHere are a few other sites, some with explanations, some only descriptive:\nhttp://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Sexual_dimorphism\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_dimorphism\nhttp://ndnd.essortment.com/sexualdimorphis_rcgt.htm\nhttp://www.rpi.edu/~verwyc/oh14.htm\nhttp://northonline.sccd.ctc.edu/judylearn/NTRONLINE/genderphysical.htm\n\n(These are pdfs):\n\nhttp://psych.ucsc.edu/matherlab/pdfs/KanazawaNovak2005.pdf\nhttp://www.as.ua.edu/ant/bindon/ant475/Papers/Camp.pdf
23199
Both are equally capable, but the areas of competence are different. Like girls are very good at verbal skills whereas boys are good at analytical reasoning.
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)
642711
Any program will lower juvenile delinquency... as long as it has requirements... kids will strive to become better in sports leaving less time for them to get caught up. The National Youth Sports Program was pretty nice... it equips kids with the knowledge to survive and provides them with countless opportunities. It helped steer/motivate me... now I'm off to college....
496766
Girls aren't the only ones.  Guys do as well.
734725
boys have an unfair advantage in strength/speed (when puberty starts), it makes the games more competitive if the sexes are separated.
894238
We guys were not even allowed in the gym when the girls were in there, much less being stuck dancing with them.  Once in high school I saw a class of girls in their gym clothes - they were out on the archery range.  Us guys were not even allowed out of the building while the girls were doing that.  Guess administration thought they were guarding our morals or some such foolishness.  Didn't do much good; our community had one of the highest rates of teenage illegitimate pregnancy in the country...which really teed me off, 'cause I couldn't get a date with the sluttiest girl in a graduating class of six hundred all through my four years of high school.
978143
Gender exclusive schools, (some academies or finishing school) offer a more focused environment. Since teens and beyond is also the time most young adults become interested in sex, removing the temptation is helpful.
925752
GirlsForGirls, GirlsClubhouse, WomenOnly, ChicksNFlicks, GabbingGirls, ChattyChicks...............it really should be related to the subject of the club.
279588
It's been well documented that boys do, in fact, mature later than girls.\n\nThe difference between men and Savings Bonds is that eventually the Bonds mature...
69846
The fact that boys are at a lower psychological level than girls. Guess I'll have to wait until they mature...
99909
Teenage boys are sometimes moodier than girls, I think.  My son has gone through all the moodiness, the beligerance, the "peer pressure" to do things he knows aren't right or that he wasn't raised to do, and to an extent, bouts with low self-esteem, although he is a very handsome and well-liked young man.  I always told him that the things we face that are the hardest are the things that make us stronger in the long run.  I did the best I could to try to build him up, and to also try to remember the way I felt as a teenager, so I could try to "pick my battles" with him in a more positive way.