Boys Are Different Than Girls

I'm supposed to start out videos with saying something that'll grab you. You ready? Boys are different than girls. What do you think of that?

I was in Home Depot. This dad's pushing the boy in the cart and the boy leans over to grab something and the dad says, no touching. I wanted to interrupt and say, excuse me, sir. That's how boys are. They like to touch things. They learn by engaging with objects. Boys touch. Boys move. Boys are more violent. Boys enjoy interacting with their environment in a way that girls don't.

Here's a tip for parents, especially dads. Show up for lunch at elementary school. Surprise your kid. They love that. When they get to middle and high school, those days are over. You're not allowed to eat lunch with them anymore. But do it while they're young and they actually get excited when they see you.

I used to show up at my daughter's school, at my son's school, and I'd be waiting to surprise them. I'd watch the kids line up like little soldiers. They're definitely in school — there's a demand that you wait in line well. These kids would be waiting in line and one day I saw these two boys turn around and they engaged in what I can only describe as a slow-motion karate match dance thing. They literally went like this, at this speed. And then the boy would block at this speed and then come back. They were having fun. They weren't in any way trying to hurt each other.

I said to myself, I bet you they're going to get told to stop. Sure enough, as soon as the teacher saw the boys doing that, she said, stop. Boys need to be able to do that. The best gift we could give our kids is roughhousing with them and allowing them to figure out what is okay to do activity-wise and what is not okay.

And I said this before — girls like to roughhouse as much as boys. Dads, please throw your daughters around too, just like you throw your sons around. They love it. It'll help everybody.