After raising two little girls, a couple has a boy. As his sisters cradle their dolls lovingly in their arms, the boy places his new doll face down on the floor. Even when they're little, their behaviors involve issues of power.
Boys develop large motor control earlier than girls who develop fine motor control earlier.
The experts have been debating the whole nature vs. nurture theories forever. Why the Y chromosome gets into these kinds of behaviors, no one knows for sure. They just do. And raising them has always presented a challenge on some level. She says her worries were few when she and her husband were raising their two boys during the 1950s and early '60s.