Hey, moms: Next time you chat with your daughter, take note of the words you use. Do you say things like �happy,� �sad,� or �worried�? What about with your son? According to a new study, you�re more likely to use these and other �emotional words and content� with girls than boys.
The study, published Wednesday in The British Journal of Developmental Psychology, analyzed conversations between 65 Spanish parents and their four- and six-year-old children. �Our study suggests that parent-child conversations are gendered, with mothers talking more expressively to their daughters than their sons,� lead author Dr. Harriet Tenenbaum, of the University of Surrey in the U.K., notes in a press release. �This inevitably leads to girls growing up more attuned to their emotions than boys.�
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