<p>I read the posts on this board the last two years, never joining until I needed to post a question about time between classes, but learning a lot. Today's Washington Post Book Review's cover title was "A Brain of One's Own" about Louann Brizendine's " The Female Brain" which started me thinking about the differences I have read here over how sons and daughters react to going away to college. So at the risk of fulfilling the Rolling Stones song of
"Getting my fair share of abuse" here goes:</p>
<p>Without stereotyping, the old nursery rhyme about boys being snips and snails and puppy dog tails while girls are sugar and spice and everything nice seems to have some validity. Sons seem to have more girlfriend and authority/limit issues as well as a total disdain for early packing and shopping, while daughters seem to worry about new friends, roomates, and getting along. </p>
<p>Interestingly enough, many of the posters with the "answers" to sons' misbehaviors appear to have only daughters. Parents of sons seem shell shocked. So basic question to those parent who have both a son and a daughter: have you noticed any major differences?</p>