• Question: Why do boys grow up differently to girls

    Asked by 843enqm48 to sakshisharda, Jennifer on 13 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Sakshi Sharda

      Sakshi Sharda answered on 13 Mar 2018:


      Boys and girls have different hormones which makes them grow and behave differently. Hormones are messengers in the body which inform the body to do act appropriately. This could mean that some hormones tell the body to grow taller while some hormones help to escape if see a tiger in front of us.

      Men have a hormone called testosterone, which makes them more manly, for instance, it makes their muscles go big and helps them to be taller. While women have hormones that help them to carry a baby and care for it. Because men and women have different bodies and different hormones, we grow up differently.

    • Photo: Jennifer Paxton

      Jennifer Paxton answered on 13 Mar 2018:


      Sakshi has already given a super answer to this question! As Sakshi says, boy and girls have different hormones that makes us develop differently. Now anatomically, these hormones come from different organs in the body – some are from the brain and some of them are from reproductive organs that differ in boys are girls. These are things like the testes in boys and ovaries in girls. Boys and girls are born with these different organs but they develop more in puberty, when the hormones in your body really take control and then the differences between men and women are very noticeable! Testes will make testosterone which makes men ‘manlier’ and the ovaries make hormones called oestrogen and progesterone that control a woman’s menstrual cycle (periods) and help a woman to have a baby.

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