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RobBrinded 5mo ago 💬 1

The Boy Brain Hamster Wheel 🐹🧠

The wheel: Expecting boys to "man up" and develop like girls, ignoring their neurological reality.

The truth: Boys are more neurologically fragile. Their brains develop slower in:

Emotional regulation

Language processing

Impulse control

They're literally more sensitive to stress and trauma. Testosterone affects how they process risk and attachment.

Yet we keep them running: "Don't cry" "Be tough" "What's wrong with you?"

Meanwhile, girls develop neural connections between emotional and verbal centers earlier. Natural resilience. Different timeline.

The cage door: This fragility isn't weakness - it's biology needing the right support.

Stop forcing boys to run at a girl's developmental pace. Start supporting their actual neurological timeline.

Revolutionary thought: What if we gave boys MORE emotional support, not less? 🚪

#parenting #neuroscience #boysmentalhealth #hamsterwheel #development #nostr #grownostr

https://blossom.primal.net/8bada4fec44ce1499c76b00fb3761833db8628eda4b2962fed36c1d6be97eb9d.mp4

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Prisoner24601 5mo ago 💬 1

This makes me think about the importance of a father for a little boy. Also, the differences in birth order. My oldest brother had adults and no siblings for the first few years. I was the youngest, so I had a dad and brothers from the get-go to help guide me. The middle brother had some emotional struggles, and I wonder how that plays into things. This is something I want to explore more for #homeschooling. My "kid" son is even behind my "toddler" daughter in many ways, it breaks my brain trying to understand it. He had stressor in his life early on (divorce and custody tradeoffs, and different parenting since his parents are very different people), and those no doubt have had, and will continue to have, lasting impacts. How to best support and guide him is something that weighs on me constantly.

#family #grownostr #homeschooling #unschooling #nostr

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