Sentences with phrase «boys than girls took»

Figures from the Joint Council for Qualifications reveal that over 20,000 more boys than girls took maths and physics at A-level in each subject this year.

Not exact matches

Still, women are more likely than men to say that deviating from traditional gender norms is a good approach to take in raising both girls and boys.

Boys generally take longer to master these skills than girls.

• If one parent is better - educated than the other, some children may benefit from the better - educated parent undertaking more care: e.g. in Norway, girls (but not boys) have been found to do better at school when a father who was better educated than their mother took longer - than - average leave (Cools et al, 2011.)

Can we chalk it up to the typical response: «Oh, boys take longer to potty train than girls do»?

All kids are different but I've heard boys tend to take a little longer than girls to be ready.

And boys often start later and take longer to learn to use the potty than girls.

Potty training boys does not take longer than girls.

From personal experience and from what's been shared with me by other moms, I think it's true that boys take longer to potty train than girls.

Tip # 3: Be patient... boys generally take longer to potty train than girls.

Though the advice is well intentioned, there is no rule that says that a boy will take longer than a girl or that he will be more difficult to potty train either.

Not to mention the fact too that people may have been telling you that potty training boys is so much harder than girls or that they start later or take longer to be potty trained.

You may also be receiving a lot of information on when he needs to potty train, how you should do it, that boys are harder than girls or take longer too.

Boys, on the other hand, take anywhere from three months to one year longer than girls to completely potty train.

According to KidsHealth.org, boys often take longer to potty train than girls.

Girls tend to potty train sooner than boys, and boys can take up to age 4 1/2.

Some experts believe that boys are in diapers a bit longer than girls because they're generally more active and may less likely to stop and take the time to use the potty.

Yes, it may take boys longer to potty train than girls.

If your child is younger than 24 months and you're curious about how his BMI compares to other kids his age, ask your child's doctor to calculate it, then take a look at these WHO percentile charts for toddler boys or toddler girls.

The fortunes of Boys and Girls High School, a venerable but long - struggling school that the de Blasio administration pledged to revive, took another turn this week, when its principal said he was considering leaving for a different job after less than two years.

«We also find this effect when we take into account other variables, like weather or air pollution — and it's higher among boys than girls,» says Bensnes.

This focus took in food advertising aimed at women as well as wider ideas about «appetite», such as the ways in which girls and women are still expected to exercise more restraint in sexual appetite than boys and men — and are sex - or slut - shamed if they don't.

Other studies have found that boys can take more of a toll on their mother biologically because they tend to be slightly heavier at birth than girls.

Boys get more outside playtime than girls, and almost half of parents do not take their preschool - aged kids out to play once a day.

Last year, nearly 46 per cent of girls gained five or more passes at the top grades (A to C) in the GCSE examinations taken at 16, while fewer than 37 per cent of boys reached the same standard.

At A level, taken at 18, girls now score better than boys in mathematics, physics and technology.

The researchers also monitored the advanced math and science courses that students chose to take in high school, concluding that the girls who had been discouraged by their elementary school teachers were much less likely than the boys to opt for advanced courses.

Recent estimates suggest that as many as 1.9 million children younger than 18 years have a sport - or recreation - related concussion each year in the United States.1 This injury is biomechanically induced, with symptoms resulting from neuronal dysfunction due to functional and neurometabolic alterations rather than gross structural abnormalities.2 Compared with boys involved in similar activities, girls experience higher rates of sport - related concussion,3 - 7 report more severe symptoms,8 - 11 demonstrate worse cognitive impairment,8 - 10, 12 and take longer to recover.11 The neural mechanisms behind these postconcussion sex differences are poorly understood but have been attributed to differences in neuroanatomy and physiology, 13 cerebral blood flow, 14 and the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone.15 - 17

And yet here we are, third trimester, less than three months left, and soon we'll find out if this little one is a boy or a girl, if he or she takes after myself or my husband, and how my heart can possibly expand that much more.

Jokingly, plenty of my boy mom friends probably think I'm praying for their sons, since nothing sounds more fun than an arranged marriage with my best friends taking the role of mother - in - law to my girls.

You not only have to take care of her medically and emotionally but you have to become more of a friend than a boy friend or a girl friend.

Now, when you take a few online dating you will see that there are many more boys than girls.

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The report quizzed more than 8,500 parents, teachers and young people and found that 52 per cent of parents and 57 per cent of teachers have admitted to making subconscious stereotypes in regards to boys and and girls taking STEM subjects.

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This new edition of the book need take nothing back: the refusal or inability (often as a result of litigation) of schools to take into account or respond to the distinctive characteristics of boys is even more marked, the gap in school achievement between boys and girls even more substantial and troubling than in 2000.

We still teach boys that being a man means rising to the occasion; while encouraging both boys and girls to step up, take responsibility for protecting those weaker than themselves, helping those who can not defend themselves, and speaking up for those whose voices might not otherwise be heard — all of which should, naturally, be applauded — we somehow also encourage our male children to repress their own vulnerabilities, their own fears and weaknesses, and their own soft underbellies.

It also noted that secondary school - aged boys (11 - 16) are happier with the amount of physical activity they take part in and enjoy it more than girls (71 per cent of boys compared to 56 per cent of girls).

Skeptics of the «boy troubles» point to SAT scores, where males outperform females, without acknowledging the gender imbalances in the test - takers: far more poor and minority girls than boys take that test.

In the study, researchers David Autor, David Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik, Jeffrey Roth, and Melanie Wasserman find that any disadvantage (e.g. growing up in poverty, living in a bad neighborhood, being raised without a father), takes more of a toll on boys than on girls.

In June 2016, Michael Wiltshire, principal of Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, resigned to take «an easier job» in Long Island, where schools are better resourced and funded than those in NYC (Taylor, 2016, June 23).

Nevertheless, taken together, these meta - analyses provide some limited support for the notion that boys are more susceptible than girls to the detrimental consequences of divorce.