contrary types

[Valerie White <valerie forevermail com>]

I've been reflecting recently on how Jocelyn (f) and Perry (m) are 
confounding the stereotypes!  Jocelyn is "the physical one" (although we 
try not to label!).  Perry is "the verbal one".

What that means is that Jocelyn tries to stand up on the back of the couch, 
walk down the stairs not holding on, jump off a chair onto pillow, climb a 
rope grid with one-foot squares up to five feet in the air at the 
playground . . . etc.  She occasionally says a two-word phrase.

While Perry is much happier at the playground in the swings or the 
sandbox.  And if he is awake he is talking.  He keeps up a running 
commentary on what is going on around him.  "I want put food on plate."  "I 
don't know where poetry book is."  "One baby going up [the staircase], one 
baby going down."   When told not to eat his cottage cheese with his 
fingers, to use his spoon, "No eat cah chee poo--ha" (Not eat cottage 
cheese spoon--hand!".  He has memorized almost every book in the house (and 
we have dozens--scores even).  He invents new verses to "old 
macdonald"  (has a clock--tick tock here, tick tock there) and "wheels on 
the bus" (cow on the bus goes moo moo moo).

Of course if it were the other way around people would say, oh, well of 
course girls are more verbal and boys more physical.

It shows to go ya.

Valerie