RM>> Something that surprised me is my niece, who has kids and is a teacher
  >> so sees a lot of kids, says that they are maturing more slowly today
  >> than in the past.

MP>I wonder if that is all kids, or just male kids?  As you mention online,
  >as best as I can tell from nieces and nephews, it is more the nieces that
  >are interested in that world as tweens/teens.  The nephews, and their
  >friends, not as much.

I know my 11 year old nephew seems a lot more interested in playing
online games on his Tablet than thinking about girls.

I guess I didn't have a Tablet to distract me at that age but I was
certainly starting to think about girls.

They have always said that girls mature faster than boys, one of the
reasons they are usually looking for older boys while in their
early teens. Maybe I wasn't quite typical as I recall being quite
a bit more popular with the girls when I was 12 to 14 than most of
the rest of the guys. I sort of thought that was mainly because
at 12 years old I was already 5'10" so I was taller than most of
the other guys, many still shorter than most of the girls.

Of course, by 14 I had long hair (unusual at the time) and was
wearing Harley T-Shirts and saving up to buy my first motorcycle
so I may have seemed a little more 'macho' than typical as well..

The girls do like a 'bad boy'...   B)

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