Do you find that little boys are better behaved or little girls?

Question

I have all boys so I wouldnt know but my mother who had all girls says little girls are better behaved and she finds my youngest boys twins age 2 and one age 4 quite rowdy is this the case?

Answer 1

My little boy is much more behaved than my girl he is two she is three. I think he is just sweeter...he is a momma's boy...my little girl is spoiled...probably cause she was the first baby and we did things much different with Eli

Answer 2

I used to be a nanny and I have looked after 14 children (I now have 2 of my own) and I would say there's not a lot of difference really between boys and girls - the behaviour is just a different kind!

Boys tend to be more into things and they are very active (although girls can be like this too). They tend to be more physical when sorting out disputes!

Girls on the other hand tend to be more independent and demanding - they definitely know what they want from a young age! Girls also seem to tell more tales than boys and can be really catty!

OK most of the above are negative traits! I loved working with children as they are funny and cute and can embarrass you which is not too good at the time but you can laugh about it afterwards!

Just take the children as they are and enjoy them :)

Answer 3

I have one of each. My daughter may be "better behaved" if you mean more likely to sit around and be quiet, but I think that boys are easier. Girls tend to be more whiny and boys usually don't hold a grudge or get their feelings hurt the way girls do. Boys do tend to be more "rowdy" as far as running around more and engaging in more active play, but I don't consider that to be badly behaved. Maybe your mom just doesn't feel like she can keep up with them the way she did with her girls. Plus, she is a little bit older now than she was when she had her kids. If your boys are polite and can settle down when you tell them to then I would say they are just active boys and not that they aren't well behaved.

Answer 4

Its different all around. I think that girls are whinier, and know more than boys when it comes to playing mom and dad and seeing how far they can push there buttons. Girls are easier I think when they are older after the age of 16. They usually have more street smarts than boys and generally have more responsibility than boys do at that age!
Boys are easy when they are younger because they are happy with a bucket full of rocks and a bat. They love there moms at a young age and don't really mouth back for the most part! As boys get older they have to put on the macho man roll to show there friends and other male figures that they really are "a man" They seem to have less common sense than girls in the teen years and need more talking to. I would be more worried as a parent having a teenage boy than a girl. That's just me and that's how I look at!

Answer 5

How "well" a child behaves isn't down to the sex of the child. There are various factors which could contribute to a child's behaviour such as diet, environment, relationship with siblings or parents / guardians or even neurological anomalies. One must be aware of the tendency or need to project how we'd like the child to behave rather than allowing the child to demonstrate their own behaviour.
One hundred people may answer that girls are better behaved then another hundred will answer that boys are better behaved. These answers will be relative to an individuals experience rather than being based on concrete evidence.

Answer 6

I have four boys and one girl,they are all awesome kids.My oldest is 26 yrs old,two 19yr olds 16yr old daughter and a 6 yr old. Everyone has different personalities.Year ago I had to teach about personalities to the youth in our church.For example- Phlegmatic people like things the easy way. Sanguine like it the fun way. Choleric like it their way. And the Melancholy like it the right way. Well anyway my oldest son was very Phlegmatic their very laid back people can be slow at doing things,but very easy to get along with.My only girl is sanguine they are fun to be with she loves to joke too,but she has some melancholy too so she knows when to get serious that some sanguines don't.Two of my boys are choleric,one has phlegmatic and he's great mellow yet a very hard worker.But the other one very strong choleric and is very critical.He has a big heart,but everything to him is black or white ,right or wrong even though we are still close.He is MY MOST DIFFICULT CHILD!!!!!!! A BOY ,but my oldest sister was for my mother,she was bad and thats a GIRL. Just stay close talk a lot play together alot,except eachother faults and all and work on them together with love not critizism.

Answer 7

Boys are going to be rowdy, and your boys are going to need to run, jump, play, and fight. Girls are better behaved, but the boys will come around. Just don't have expectations that they behave like little girls.

Answer 8

Having raised both my experience was that as a general rule girls were better "behaved" than boys, though it's certainly not a clear cut difference. I think there are also considerations of what one considers "behaved" to mean. Boys seem, in general, to be more active and rowdier than girls. And while that behavior can sometimes be tiring or aggravating, it's not necessarily misbehavior. In my experience, and again the issue is close, boys seem to need more and stronger directions or admonitions to do something (or not do it) than girls, and on the other side girls seem to respond more quickly and consistently to discipline or punishment than do boys, as a group.

Answer 9

I have an 8 year old daughter and a 4 year old son and I would have to say that little girls behave better. But I have a feeling as they get older that changes or so I have been told!! They are boys and boys are wild and crazy..............

Answer 10

An impossible question to answer, but my mother has been a child minder for 25 years and she swears that girls are better behaved than boys.

Seeing the ones she has looked after all these years, I am inclined to believe - but more important than any gender issue is the role of the parents and how well they bring up their children to behave

Answer 11

Not to offend you, but it's from my point of view... When my brother was 4 years old (I was 14) I kind of helped my mother with raising him you know, because she went to work so often! My little sister was 11 then, so no worries. You must know, that my brother was just a little rascal! But my sister also, but most of the time she was sweet and would do what I told her.

So my conclusion is that boys are much worse than girls.