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Ask Lisa: The Psychology of Raising Tweens & Teens
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The Difference Between Boys and Girls
Lisa Kogan: I think the gender piece plays out in a couple ways. We know that girls as a group are cultivated to be more verbal and to talk about feelings more than boys in our society. They're not born with that ability, we socialize it. Parents of 13-year-old boys will talk instead about their boy becoming quite angry, sometimes physical or shutting down,. whereas their daughter may become more expressively upset.
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