Re: Where Have All the Boys Gone?

[Herbert H Gottlieb <herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM>]

Lisa...

At the age of 9 you will find that there is a vast difference starting
between the maturity of girls and boys. For the next few years, the girls
will be getting more and more mature while the boys are still remain in
the middle years of their childhood.

Please be assured that all of this will change (for the better or worse)
as the boys go through their adolescent years to become lovers,
breadwinners, fathers, and automobile owners.Have you ever wondered why
girls usually date and marry men that are older than themselves??

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where more and more older men and younger women now "live-together"
rather than getting married)

On Sat, 01 Jul 2000 08:41:02 -0400 Lisa Gardner <iamlisa@TAMPABAY.RR.COM>
writes:
> Dear List Members,
>
> I've been in a gifted math and science class at the same public
> school
> since first grade, and I'll be in the fifth grade this next year.
> There have always been at least 5 or 6 more boys than girls in my
> class even though the total number of students has continued to
> grow.
>
> What I have noticed is that almost all the boys go out of their way
> to
> 'act dumb' in class, but in actuality I think some are fairly smart.
> One bad thing is that the boys, and now they have gotten  most of
> the
> girls to think that it isn't 'cool' to look smart. The boys are also
> usually lazier than the girls when it comes to doing homework,
> reports
> and projects. In fact out of the 23 students in my gifted class only
> 2
> fourth grade students, both girls, had science fair projects that
> were
> good enough to compete at the County level. Another thing is that a
> lot of the boys are very mean to girls that excel in school, so if
> you
> want to be liked by the boys they don't want you to be at the top of
> the class. So, I don't have a lot of sympathy if they continue to
> act
> so stupidly that they get tormented in high school from girls that
> want to excel. (Not that they should treat anyone that way unless
> provoked by inappropriate behavior from the other person. We can
> only
> take just so much torment!)
>
> I have to ask why are the boy's fathers or mothers not doing what is
> necessary to make them to put out the effort to excel or to stop the
> behavior so they aren't so unkind to the girls,  when we want to
> learn
> as much as we can?
>
> At this point in my life except for a couple of nice boys that I
> like;
> the saying 'Boys drool and girls rule' is true, because the boys
> wish
> they were doing as well as I am, but would rather play games to
> excess
> instead of working at learning something that will help them in the
> future.
>
>
> Lisa Gardner (age 9)
>
> Ps. I spend a lot of time playing and goofing off, too, but I do put
> limits on how much time is devoted to it. :>)