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At the age of 12, Patrick Mitchell decided to transition into a female, only to change his mind two years later. Uncomfortable in his own skin, the Australian school boy begged his mother to allow ...
The magazine's editor Barbara Stretchberry said that "If you go back and listen to our readers, our girls, it was so crystal clear how much this topic was on their mind." [1] American Girl founder Pleasant Rowland had the initial idea after reading a newspaper article about early onset puberty while on an airplane.
Other researchers found this gender difference decreases over time. In Handbook of Emotions, Leslie R. Brody and Judith A. Hall report that this difference in emotional expression starts at a young age, as early as 4 and 6 years old, as girls begin to express more sadness and anxiety than their male counterparts. [8]
A research on the "acquisition of fundamental movement skills" found that even though the level of mastery for certain skills were about the same for both boys and girls, after a certain age boys have better object control skills than girls do. [86] Some differences in gender roles influence on childhood play are suggested to be biological.
One young girl shared how her mother’s messages about body changes made her anxious, but after learning more about periods from the educational book, A Girl's Guide to Puberty & Periods, she ...
Development in the limbic system plays an important role in determining rewards and punishments and processing emotional experience and social information. Changes in the levels of the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin in the limbic system make adolescents more emotional and more responsive to rewards and stress. The corresponding ...
Alexithymia, also called emotional blindness, [1] is a neuropsychological phenomenon characterized by significant challenges in recognizing, expressing, sourcing, [2] and describing one's emotions. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is associated with difficulties in attachment and interpersonal relations . [ 6 ]
This isn’t the Mean Girls you used to know—but it also kind of is. The musical re-imagining of Tina Fey’s hit 2004 comedy, based on the actual stage production from 2018, stays quite true to ...