1. I feel down. 2. I think you should talk
to your friend.
3. I need your advice.
4. What should I do?
5. Perhaps you shouldn't
eat lots of junk food.
and G for a letter giving advice.
6. Everything will be fine.
7. I've got a problem with
my parents.
8. I'm in trouble.
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9. Calm down.

I always thought babies were born as blank slates and the parents molded and taught them gender roles, etc. 

I had two boys. We didn't allow guns in the house. We didn't talk about them, just basically ignored their existence. The first time the oldest got some Lego blocks, he built a gun! We had plenty of toys and dolls etc, and he always went for the cars and traditionally "male" toys. We didn't encourage it, he wasn't in childcare, he was just "like that."

My best friend had two girls, the same ages. The wanted to do the girly things when they came over. 

We moved away and had two girls. Meanwhile my friend had some boys. She later called and apologized for all the things she had said about my parenting. I was amazed at how different and easier girls were. 

I have always been a women's libbist, and have a degree in chemistry. But I had to admit I was wrong about the blank slate idea. 

My second son did have a period when his sister was born when he was inseparable from his baby doll, that he dragged around by the leg.He refused to put clothes on it, so I had to crochet a little dress directly onto the doll because I didn't like her being naked all the time. 

And my older daughter insisted on climbing trees and couldn't STAND dolls. She is like me, not a girly girl at all. But the older one now has a degree in linguistics and is choosing to stay at home and raise children while her husband works. They hope to get a big horsefarm someday and work together doing tourist rides in Alaska.

Despite my women's libbist tendencies, I have LOVED being a mom and my kids are wonderful, so I must have done something right. My brother-in-law stayed home with the kids while my sister worked, and that worked for them. 

The bottom line is that boys and girls ARE overall wired differently, but there is some overlap. There will always be traditionally female and male roles, but also with some overlap. The one thing we can do to really screw up society is to have quotas. The best thing to do is to encourage each person to follow their heart.

 In city there are very much museums " the tsar" of that the Hermitage is legally considered. I visited him two times, but did not see the half of displays - in fact 3 million (!) exhibits are kept in him. Me it seems to, and for whole life will not go round all permanent displays, but here yet the exhibitions of modern art and old masters arrive regularly.One of such cities I visited quite recently. I had to visit the cultural capital of Russia and one of the most beautiful cities of the world - Saint Petersburg. I will say honestly - my old dream came true. About this city on Neva I, as well as any Russian man, knew from little up. It is impossible to live in Russia and not know about Saint Petersburg, or, as his Russians, Питер, name love. This city long time was the capital of the Russian empire. And he was built by Peter I exactly as the capital of Russia. The system of chronology Saint Petersburg conducts from 1703. It is said that he was built on bones, - a tsar did not spare people for the sake of that to erect the most beautiful, on the European standard, city in the world. Saint Petersburg is a city on bogs. He is surrounded by the forests, consisting of " north" trees wonderful the special north beauty. Driving up to Питеру, you see dark, prolate up, thin fir-trees, a bit " consumptive" birchs. It seems that you are met by the dusk of north bogs. But here finally and city