Boys vs Girls

The past 24 hours have been quite the learning experience in terms of the Tween Set. For me.

1.  Daughter's sleepover: Twister, Silly Bandz swapping, Rock Band on the Wii & everything smells like flowers & candy. Son's sleepover: loud, loud, messy & LOUD & my house smells like sweaty frogs.  And Axe. I think that other smell was Axe.

2.  Girls share Krispy Kreme doughnuts, even carefully dividing the ones they all want so everyone gets a bite.  Boys will arm wrestle to the near death for any glazed ring of goodness, no matter how many other perfectly edible doughnuts are left in the box. Then they crush their juice cups in victory.

3.  Girls eventually sleep at night.  Sleep means dreaming about trips to Build-A-Bear and the new American Girl store.  Boys consider sleep unmanly.  Who needs sleep when the world runs on sheer adrenaline, Airsoft guns & LEGO bricks?

4.  Girls are divided on the whole Justin Bieber is awesome/lame debate. Boys think everything is "beast", love Megan Fox and all want Olivia's phone number (Olivia, of course, is the new girl at school who hasn't yet realized that most boys smell like sweaty frogs).

5.  Girls post about puppies & their best friends on their Facebook status updates.  Boys post about wanting "hot" girlfriends even though they've never touched a member of the opposite sex.

6.  You can count on determining at least one child per sleepover who's next sleepover invitation will unfortunately get "lost in the mail".  For girls, this may not become evident until the morning after.  For boys, this is glaringly evident the moment you let them in the front door.

Now that I think about it, I don't recall my brother ever having a sleepover with his pals, while I had several. My mother was/is a wise woman.