Those are roles. That isn’t the biology of the brain.
And I’m sure you’re a fine stay-at-home Dad. Lucky children. However:
Question: Do you communicate to other people in the same way that your wife --or any other female – communicates?
Answer: No. (Unless you have not been paying attention since your own birth.)
Moms communicate differently than Dads communicate. A father’s (a male’s) priorities are different than a mother’s (female’s) priorities.
Question: Do you instruct the same way that your wife instructs?
Answer: Extremely doubtful.
Most women instruct verbally, first. Most men prefer to show, concretely, either in tandem with words, or separately. Most boys imprint directions which are shown more immediately and more convincingly than directions which are merely verbalized.
Boys receive instruction differently from males than they receive (and accept) instruction from females. I have seen this even as an educator. No amount of direct, take-no-prisoners “consequential” conversations from me, toward boys, have been as effective as casual remarks from my male colleague. Boys want to hear it from a man, and they are far more inclined to consider it seriously from a man. Especially regarding topics which matter to males.
What have you been doing all the years before you became a father if you have never bothered to notice how men and women approach life and communication and relationships differently? I suspect you have noticed, but have merely not reflected on it, not conceptualized it.
It’s ridiculous that there has to be a national conversation about the innate differences between males and females. It has nothing to do with roles or being handy.
