Fellow Queens,

 

No matter how much you may want to deny it, boys are different.

 

I’ve always tried to figure out why they do what they do. After telling my princes a ba-jillion times to quit rolling their socks into a ball and playing sports in the house, they asked if I want to buy a ticket to their indoor Superbowl. After re-enforcing my pacifist thoughts on firearms, they made guns out of their breakfast toast. After telling the older two that they are playing too rough with their younger brother, I later hear, “Dog pile on Christopher!” Sheesh.

 

My theory is that boys are hard-wired to be the beasts they are. New studies are specifically showing the genetic, brain-based differences between the sexes. And it all makes sense.

 

Girls use the advanced parts of their brains; boys use the primitive parts; if they engage their brain at all. Girls are verbally emotive, boys communicate with monosyllabic grunts. When girls have stress they need a coffee klatch, boys disappear into the cave also known as their room.

 

So what have we learned? Boys could get a Dr.’s note that confirms they have the attention span of a gnat, the necessity of re-booting their brain during their nightly sleep of the dead and are as impulsive as a newly minted millionaire shopping on E-bay. But that’s the way they are.

 

Yup, boys will be boys. Thank goodness.

 

Queen Linda