It was only since my son started playgroup that I really noticed that little girls just seem so much more independent, organised and talkative, than little boys. The old phrase “Girls are talkers, boys are walkers” seems to be so right. Is it though, or does it just seem like that? Research has suggested that boys are more boisterious and therefore more likely to get hurt, but they are able to do pretty much the same as girls and at the same time.

Fast forward the following video to 5 mins 43 secs. Michael McIntyre sums it up so well. It’s so true and so funny. The clip is from Live at the Apollo.

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“Fiddlesticks!” It just doesn’t do the job. When I burn my hand on the oven, or I miss the door way and walk into the frame; I want to shout expletives like I used to. Only now there are two little ears listening, ready to repeat everything I say. So I can’t.

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