Our current read is why gender matters by Dr. Leonard Sax. He is a proponent of single sex education and uses a wide range of scientific research to highlight gender differences in learning. He stresses that ...
Gender differences in childhood are more and more important than gender differences in adulthood.
Certainly, gender issues and the matter even more in training!
The question is ... we pay attention?!
The Sound of Your Silence may be his ADD diagnosis ...
Consultation - When adults humming Brahms lullaby over and over again for premature babies as music therapy, these girl babies could run on average 12 days earlier than the female babies who were not humming with.
There was no difference in the infant boy, because boys do not even hear higher frequency sounds!
Science is proving that women consult a wider range of sounds.
Consequences: If your son has a soft-spoken female teacher (or mother), and show signs of inattention, perhaps his lack of interest is just because he did not hear? Sax said ...
Some boys diagnosed with ADHD may just need the teacher to raise their voices a bit.
Deep, is not it?
Consequences: Teen-age girls often feel that their fathers are shouting at them. Even when father think he speaks in a normal voice, she can be exposed to his voice almost ten times higher than he is experiencing it!
Girls draw nouns, boys draw verbs ...
Vision: Science has proven that newborn girls prefer to look at faces while newborn boys prefer to look at moving objects. Now, researchers have discovered that each sex has a different configuration of the rods and cones in their eyes and send information to the brain in a different way.
Sax points out that ...
they are not small differences in overlap - they are big differences with no overlap at all.
Young girls typically sign symmetric images of humans, pets, flowers and trees, prefer "warm" colors: red, orange, green and beige. They spend an average of 10 or more colors in their pictures.
Young boys typically pull action - planes shooting flames, attacking robots and aliens eat each other. They prefer 'cool' colors: black, gray, silver and blue. They spend an average of about 6 colors in their drawings.
Consequences: Children are intrinsically capable to decipher what their parents and teachers prefer. Teachers have been trained to encourage children to draw people-centered images with rich colors. Feedback from an ignorant teacher or parent gives boys the subtle message that their drawings are somehow not okay. we continue to urge parents and teachers to accept the "serious" from boys. Otherwise, the boys quickly figure out that "art is for girls and again can feel separated from the school experience.
Brain differences have been well documented. As gender differences continue to be revealed, it is imperative that we spread the word ... we can make the world a place where all children will understand ... and in the meantime, if you are a woman ... Speak Up!
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