Anyone brought up little boys?

I can also recall a programme where children were given plasticene, and whilst the girls made pies and food with it, all carefully colour coordinated, the boys squashed it all together, after making things for fighting with.

Oh dear, rather you than me.
I think norose has a point, active past times would seem the way to go. I do appreciate that some of us GN's me included find being out and about 'doing stuff' a bit difficult.

I think boys seem generally more active and fidgety than girls. I can remember my friends little boy biting his sandwich into something he thought resembled a plane, which then got 'flown' around, with sound effects..

Yes - he has done the rampaging around the garden this morning and the jigsaw was my (failed!) attempt to wind him down a bit. Confession - they are watching Charlie and Chocolate Factory at the moment.

I had 3 little girls and they were very physically active, but also had the ability to be still and to play by themselves. One of my DDs was dyslexic and could not even begin to understand maths - she, like this little lad, was (and is) the most loving and warm of personalities.

Well he does sound hyperactive. So maybe jigsaws not the way to go, sounds like tiringout physical activities maybe better suited or water play tree climbing , etc if that doesn't work maybe he does need to be reassessed. Ps some foods sweets can have this affect, one of my sons would get very hyped up when he had sweets with red colouring in them .