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I'm building boys because I was blessed with four of them. My advocacy on behalf of boys -- heck, most of my career, at this point -- grew out of the simple fact that I am a mother of four boys. Being a mom of boys opened my eyes to things I'd never even considered before. I grew up with brothers (four of them, actually, and a sister), but I had no idea what it was like to be a boy in this world. I didn't understand that little boys are wired to move and wrestle, and that in the end, it doesn't really matter if that inclination is in-born or a product of socialization. I didn't know that boys' fine motor skills mature later than their gross motor skills, or that the part of the brain that handles language matures much later in boys than it does in girls. Once I learned … [Read More...] about Why I’m Building Boys