The girls have gone home. I think it was a success, but only time will tell. I am truly amazed how different boys and girls are. Not just their likes and dislikes, but the whole way they relate to peers. The boys at my son's party were very task oriented. They would finish one thing and had to move on to something else. The girls at my daughter's party would finish something then sit and chat and visit. What are your thoughts on this?

-- Jo (mamamia2kids@msn.com), October 26, 2001

Answers

The girls are becoming little women. We like to sit and chat and visit; so do they. Men talk too, but for women it is an important social function. We thrive in a communtity, whether a small town or a large extended family. Women who pioneered west suffered more emotionally than men did going to places where there were no other people around. I am going to guess that there are way more male hermits than female. And did you ever notice than when the Bible warns about gossiping its always in connection with women? I have four talkative boys, but they are usually doing something while they're talking; whereas the girls can just talk.

-- Cathy N. (keeper8@attcanada.ca), October 26, 2001.

I have five sons, and then a daughter. I've always felt close to the boys, and enjoyed conversation with them, but as soon as daughter child started chatting I noticed the difference. While the boys will chit chat about tasks and ideas, even as a toddler, she would pull a chair up beside me and make "girl talk". She'd tell me about her church class and the things the different children had to say and the ways they reacted to things. She'd talk about the bows the other little girls had in their hair, the children's siblings, what the teacher said, what she said, etc. I remember looking at her in amazement the first time I noticed she was making girl talk. I had never known I missed it;)

-- mary (marylgarcia@aol.com), October 26, 2001.

I have three boys, just what I had always wanted. I enjoy talking to them and do get tickled at their "macho" talk. Always taking something apart and back together, always trying to out talk the other brother. But now that my youngest is 7 and my oldest 13, I am longing for a girl. I am afraid I will miss the closeness I had with my mother, once I got past the teen years. Even though she has been dead for almost 12 years, I still miss getting to ask her things and just "talk". I pray the Lord will send me a wonderful daughter-in-law that I can have girl talks with.

-- Ivy in NW AR (balch84@cox-internet.com), October 26, 2001.

I know with 3 girls, when they get home from school, they tell me every detail... What everybody said, what they wore, what they ate, grades, everything. Brady is not nearly as verbal. He says it was OK! But usually later if he is doing something else he will tell me what happened in little dribs and drabbles. He still really likes me, so he likes to tell me everyhting that is going on, just at his own pace. Even Cale says, Brady really loves his MOM!

-- Melissa (me@home.net), October 27, 2001.