Why boys are always moving around

Michael Gurian, MFA, CMHC Family Counselor, shares advice for parents on the reasons why young boys always seem to be moving around and bumping more
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Why boys are always moving around

Your adolescent boys may be doing some things that confuse you. Some of it is related to their hormones. Some of it is related to the way their brain is set up. One example is aggression. By aggression, I don't mean violence, I just mean that they are bumping and they are moving and one-upping each other. They are doing a hierarchy with each other. It can seem alien, especially if you are a mom and you weren't brought up with brothers. It can seem alien, but actually it's developing a lot of who they are. They are learning character. They are learning to be strong. They are learning to be empathic. Testosterone is a big reason. A lot of the behaviors you're seeing is testosterone. It's not just testosterone related to -- Well, testosterone is going to make you violent. That's not it. Testosterone is an aggression chemical that floods through, especially the right side of a male brain and the systems that effect the spatial part of the male brain, which means the movement part, the person moving around in space. That hormone and that part of the brain activates so that males tend to move around and tend to bump more. they will tend to do the hierarchy more. People think, "Well, they are not learning anything." Actually, they are learning how to be adults from their own point of view.



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