The Difference Between Boys and Girls

When my boys were little, I was very careful not to let them watch violence on TV and not to buy them toy guns and swords. But everyone was right - whatever they had became a gun or sword anyway. The vacuum cleaner hose, pencils, straws, the toy electric drill. One of my sons used to bite his sandwiches and cheese slices into gun shapes and shoot them.

Miss M doesn't do that. Since she has older brothers, she's seen things in movies that her brothers never would have been allowed to see. Here's the kind of thing she does with a piece of vacuum cleaner hose. When she has a straw or fork, she cuddles it and pretends to mother it. When she has two straws or forks, she stands them up and starts imaginary conversations between them. She picks up bread crusts and makes them talk to each other. One of her brothers left his cardboard shield out. It's about as big as she is! She's cuddling it on her lap and telling me, "He's crying because the kitty scratched him." LOL!