This Tween Tuesday, Liz Atwood writes about how her boys show disdain for her:

Now that the kids have been home from school for a couple weeks, are you getting on each other’s nerves?

I read a recent article in Better Homes and Gardens that noted the differences in the way tween boys and girls express their disdain for their parents.

Psychologist Wendy Mogel told the magazine that young girls master the eye-roll — that expression that says they think whatever you’ve said or done is completely ridiculous. Boys, on the other hand, avoid eye contact. They spend a lot of time with their eyes fixed on the screen watching TV or playing videos games. I can attest to that. Although my boys spent their first week of summer vacation at camps, this past weekend they hardly budged from the sofa. Their eyes were glued to the TV and anything I said to them I had to repeat three times because they pretended not to hear me.

So I’m not sure. Is it better to be ignored or to be the target of the eye-roll? Perhaps parents who have both boys and girls can say which is worse.