We have two girls, a six-year-old and an eight-year-old.
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Many adult women consider it offensive to be called girls by other people, esp. men, although this was common in the past, and they might still call themselves or their friends girls.
What happens when boys try to join in girls' games?
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Fifty-two girls and forty-three boys studied the recorder, fourteen girls and ten boys the violin, and six boys and nine girls learned guitar.
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More boys than girls appeared to be concerned about the importance of friends opting for the same subjects.
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The girls did pay attention, and work in classes, and the boys didn't.
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The majority of boys thought that they were better at this than girls (forty-two) and the majority of girls disagreed with this (forty-seven).
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One outcome of the analysis is the development of a concept of 'female musical subculture' to interpret girls' and women's participation in the compositional world.
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There was only a small, 6% difference in the overall accuracy of response given by girls versus boys.
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The teachers assessed both boys and girls to be progressively more skilful, the worse the quality of provision in the school.
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In the 'medium' schools, the girls were favoured, so their experience of the music provision was more favourable than that of the boys.
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The bilingual children (12 boys, 9 girls; mean age 4;6 years) had three different backgrounds.
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The intervention group included 13 boys and 17 girls, selected from the six classrooms that participated in the intervention, five children per classroom.
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There were 13 boys and 15 girls from the preschool and 14 boys and 18 girls from the first grade.
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Adolescent girls were also involved in fish-processing, helping adult women: they cleaned grills, packed fish, filled cans with different preservatives and so on.
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The only sequela of the operation is then the sternotomy scar, which can cause psychological prejudice, especially in girls.
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On infection, girls become normal boys and boys become normal girls.
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Collocationswithgirl
girl
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adolescent girl
Adolescent girls were also involved in fish-processing, helping adult women: they cleaned grills, packed fish, filled cans with different preservatives and so on.
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attractive girl
A very attractive girl, she only has small part in the episode.
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baby girl
One said she would give birth to a baby boy and the other said she would give birth to a baby girl.
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