boys

I am supposed to be researching and writing about quartz countertops this afternoon -- and I am doing some of that - but I am distracted by my sore head and listening to my son Elliot, age 8 and his friend Liam, agd 7, chatting in the next room as they play...something. I don't know what, but it's fun to listen to them.

At what age do boys begin referring to each other as "Dude"?

As in, "Dude, you totally CAN'T make that dinosaur jump that mountain because a dinosaur CANNOT jump over a mountain."

My 10 year old daughter and her friends do not have any similar name for each other. And they never, ever end up wrestling on the floor when a disagreement over Malibu Barbie becomes heated (as Elliot and his friends do when they can't agree on some lego-related matter).