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So our first two kids were boys and I remember very distinctly. There's a point in a young

boy's life where he thinks he has made a major accomplishment happen because I'm not crying about that. You know, I fell and I skinned

my knee or I whacked my head and I wanted to cry but I didn't. And then I had girls, three girls after those first two boys and those girls could cry and

emote and they knew exactly what they were feeling all the time.

There is a difference, generally speaking, not all the time, but generally speaking, in boys and girls.

I'm John Fuller, along with Danny Werta and Danny, you've got a boy and a girl. they emote the same oh yeah they're exactly the same

John no way it's because you've been a perfect parent and you've made them little

danyites no boys and girls do at the very raw level show differences in their emotions.

Boys tend to to express themselves through physical means.

Maybe it's a punch, maybe it's a,

maybe it's running around, maybe it's a break something,

break something, or get really loud.

Girls tend to hold it in or get loud verbally and can be mean.

They can be really mean early in their lives with girls and as girls age.

In my counseling practice, I've heard many stories of girls being very mean verbally and behind

other people's backs and through through gossip and there are emotions behind

that right their emotions completely and really John we don't have to be taught to have emotions they just come

and we learn how to manage them or conceal them and it depends on how we grow up

within culture within the culture of our family within the culture, within the culture of our family, within the culture in general.

And as parents, we get to step into those places of emotion with our kids and not box them

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