a bit o' R/H analysis

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 89442

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Andrew" <baseball_07_05 at y...> 
wrote:

Andrew: 
> Most 11 year old boys are starting to realize things. They start to 
> like girls, unless they already have like in most cases, and become 
> interested in their own looks. This has kind of bothered me in the 
> books, Harry and Ron seem utterly clueless with girls, and didn't 
> seem to even notice girls until the fourth book.

Geoff:
Not "most" in my experience. My wife and I are the youth coordinators 
at our church. Girls go to the Girls' Brigade which is a long 
established UK uniformed organisation and so we have a separate Boys' 
Club which we run and has boys from 7-16 (not all at once). It is 
quite noticeable from this and from a small mixed discipleship group 
which we also run that, in our neck of the woods at least, boys are 
only beginning to look seriously at girls when they are about 14. 
Below that, it's Playstations, Soccer, Rugby, you name it... Perhaps 
the kids of West Somerset are an odd bunch. 

In my own teens, I was a bit clueless into my late teens - perhaps 
because I attended a single sex secondary school which were much the 
norm in those days.