The Difference between a Boy and a Man, a Girl and a Woman:

Boys are students. Men are teachers.

Boys are consumers. Men are producers.

Boys play with toys. Men work with tools.

Boys break things. Men make things.

Boys ask questions. Men give answers.

Boys are disruptive. Men bring order.

Boys run in gangs. Men organize teams.

Boys play house. Men build homes.

Boys shack up. Men get married.

Boys make babies. Men raise children.

A boy won’t raise his own children. A man will raise his and another's children.

Boys invent excuses for failure. Men produce strategies for success.

Boys look for somebody to take care of them. Men look for somebody to take care of.

Boys are present-centered. Men are time-balanced, having knowledge of the past and understanding of the present and a vision for the future.

Boys seek popularity. Men demand respect.

Boys are up on the latest. Men are down with the greatest.

Girls want to control the man in their life. Grown women know that if he's truly hers, he doesn't need controlling.

Girls check you for not calling them. Grown women are too busy to realize you hadn't.

Girls are afraid to be alone. Grown women revel in it using it as a time for personal growth.

Girls ignore the good guys. Grown women ignore the bad guys.

Girls make you come home. Grown women make you want to come home.

Girls leave their schedule wide-open and wait for a guy to call and make plans. Grown women make their own plans and nicely tell the guy to get in where he fits.

Girls worry about not being pretty and/or good enough for their man. Grown women know that they are pretty and/or good enough for any man.

Girls try to monopolize all their man's time. Grown women realize that a lil' bit of space makes the 'together time' even more special-and spends time with her own friends.

Girls think a guy crying is weak. Grown women offer their shoulder and a tissue.

Girls want to be spoiled and 'tell' their man so. Grown women 'show' him and make him comfortable enough to reciprocate without fear of losing his 'manhood'.

Girls get hurt by one man and make all men pay for it. Grown women know that was just one man.

Girls fall in love and chase aimlessly after the object of their affection. Grown women know that sometimes love isn't always mutual.