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Why gender matters : what parents and teachers need to know about the emerging science of sex differences

Forget everything you think you know about gender differences in children. In recent years, scientists have discovered that differences between girls and boys are more profound than anybody ever guessed. Recent research shows that girls and boys see the world differently -- not only figuratively, but literally. A girl's retina is built very differently from the retina of a boy. When a girl and a boy look at the same landscape, they are seeing very different images. Girls and boys hear differently as well. These differences have major implications for best practices in education -- and also for effective parenting. Leonard Sax, a family physician and psychologist, explains why gender matters. Teachers will learn how to encourage girls to excel in math and science and how to get boys to love reading novels. Parents get practical and effective tips about how to discipline a son and different ways to approach a daughter. A wide range of issues -- including drug use, sex, aggression, and risk-taking, are addressed in a reader-friendly style. Ultimately, Sax shows how to recognize and understand these hardwired differences to help every girl and every boy reach their fullest potential. - Back cover.

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  • "Forget everything you think you know about gender differences in children. In recent years, scientists have discovered that differences between girls and boys are more profound than anybody ever guessed. Recent research shows that girls and boys see the world differently -- not only figuratively, but literally. A girl's retina is built very differently from the retina of a boy. When a girl and a boy look at the same landscape, they are seeing very different images. Girls and boys hear differently as well. These differences have major implications for best practices in education -- and also for effective parenting. Leonard Sax, a family physician and psychologist, explains why gender matters. Teachers will learn how to encourage girls to excel in math and science and how to get boys to love reading novels. Parents get practical and effective tips about how to discipline a son and different ways to approach a daughter. A wide range of issues -- including drug use, sex, aggression, and risk-taking, are addressed in a reader-friendly style. Ultimately, Sax shows how to recognize and understand these hardwired differences to help every girl and every boy reach their fullest potential. - Back cover."@en
  • "Forget everything you think you know about gender differences in children. In recent years, scientists have discovered that differences between girls and boys are more profound than anybody ever guessed. Recent research shows that girls and boys see the world differently -- not only figuratively, but literally. A girl's retina is built very differently from the retina of a boy. When a girl and a boy look at the same landscape, they are seeing very different images. Girls and boys hear differently as well. These differences have major implications for best practices in education -- and also for effective parenting. Leonard Sax, a family physician and psychologist, explains why gender matters. Teachers will learn how to encourage girls to excel in math and science and how to get boys to love reading novels. Parents get practical and effective tips about how to discipline a son and different ways to approach a daughter. A wide range of issues -- including drug use, sex, aggression, and risk-taking, are addressed in a reader-friendly style. Ultimately, Sax shows how to recognize and understand these hardwired differences to help every girl and every boy reach their fullest potential. - Back cover."
  • "Are boys and girls really that different' Twenty years ago, doctors and researchers didn't think so. Back then, most experts believed that differences in how girls and boys behave are mainly due to differences in how they were treated by their parents, teachers, and friends. It's hard to cling to that belief today. An avalanche of research over the past twenty years has shown that sex differences are more significant and profound than anybody guessed. Sex differences are real, biologically programmed, and important to how children are raised, disciplined, and educated. In Why Gender Matters, psychologist and family physician Dr. Leonard Sax leads parents through the mystifying world of gender differences by explaining the biologically different ways in which children think, feel, and act. He addresses a host of issues, including discipline, learning, risk taking, aggression, sex, and drugs, and shows how boys and girls react in predictable ways to different situations. For example, girls are born with more sensitive hearing than boys, and those differences increase as kids grow up. So when a grown man speaks to a girl in what he thinks is a normal voice, she may hear it as yelling. Conversely, boys who appear to be inattentive in class may just be sitting too far away to hear the teacher'especially if the teacher is female. Likewise, negative emotions are seated in an ancient structure of the brain called the amygdala. Girls develop an early connection between this area and the cerebral cortex, enabling them to talk about their feelings. In boys these links develop later. So if you ask a troubled adolescent boy to tell you what his feelings are, he often literally cannot say. Dr. Sax offers fresh approaches to disciplining children, as well as gender-specific ways to help girls and boys avoid drugs and early sexual activity. He wants parents to understand and work with hardwired differences in children, but he also encourages them to push beyond gender-based stereotypes. A leading proponent of single-sex education, Dr. Sax points out specific instances where keeping boys and girls separate in the classroom has yielded striking educational, social, and interpersonal benefits. Despite the view of many educators and experts on child-rearing that sex differences should be ignored or overcome, parents and teachers would do better to recognize, understand, and make use of the biological differences that make a girl a girl, and a boy a boy."@en
  • "A noted pediatrician looks at the controversial question of biologically-based gender differences, arguing that these variations are a biological reality and that they play a key role in the development of personality traits."@en
  • "A noted pediatrician looks at the controversial question of biologically-based gender differences, arguing that these variations are a biological reality and that they play a key role in the development of personality traits."

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  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Why Gender Matters"
  • "養男育女調不同 : 大腦不同,學習型態不同,情緖表達方式不同,教養方法當然應該不同!"
  • "Why Gender Matters What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences"
  • "Yang nan yu nu diao bu tong : da nao bu tong,xue xi xing tai bu tong,qing xu biao da fang shi bu tong,jiao yang fang fa dang ran ying gai bu tong!"
  • "Yang nan yu nu diao bu tong : da nao bu tong,xue xi xing tai bu tong,qing xu biao da fang shi bu tong, jiao yang fang shi dang ran ying gai bu tong!"
  • "養男育女調不同"
  • "Why gender matters : what parents and teachers need to know about the emerging science of sex differences"@en
  • "Why gender matters : what parents and teachers need to know about the emerging science of sex differences"
  • "Yang nan yu nu diao bu tong = Why gender matters"
  • "养男育女调不同 = Why gender matters"
  • "Why gender matters what parents and teachers need to know about the emerging science of sex differences"
  • "Why gender matters what parents and teachers need to know about the emerging science of sex differences"@en
  • "養男育女調不同 : 大腦不同,學習型態不同,情緖表達方式不同, 教養方式當然應該不同!"
  • "Yang nan yu nü diao bu tong"
  • "Yang nan yu nu diao bu tong"
  • "Why Gender Matters : What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences"

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