Q: Do you notice a difference between how boys and girls learn?
We used to get anxious parents who were worried that their friends' daughter was already writing their name, whereas their son couldn't. We would have to convince them that their son was doing so many other fabulous things and would eventually read and write - it was just going to take longer.
You have to sort out what are the myths and what is reality. It is a reality that there are raised testosterone levels at the age of four in boys and brain development is different, but it is too easy to say that boys are 'like this' and that is all they can do.
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