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[jade_sabre]

All right, anyone who's spent time with ten-to-eleven-year-old boys and girls,

what are they like?

I have some ideas but it's been a while since I've spent a lot of time with that age group, so, you know, any observations you have about the age group would be welcome.

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[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

Um, they're not generally that into the other gender yet, but they do get rowdy. The girls are already pretty able to bully with subtlety but sometimes also intelligently funny. The guys are not really into talking to people outside their own age/gender, but also starting to have their own sense of humor.

However, they can still be really, really goofy. That's one of those pendulum ages where they can go from being a kid to being a little adult and back in a flash.

Not a great attention span? Mainly? Boys may still need to move around more.

I mean, this is also one of the ages where the maturity gap with guys/girls is a little more obvious.

I think.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Okay! This is all kind of what I was thinking, based on my own memories/some observations/talking to my husband. But as one of a family of all girls, I'm a bit wary about writing about boys, or at least from their perspective. So thanks! :D