Longitudinally followed Norwegian early adolescents of immigrant or Norwegian-born parents who managed cultural complexity in developing from childhood to adulthood. Girls' explorations of culturally approved developmental pathways brought them into the sphere of heterosexuality. Outside the formal curriculum, they could resist, but not ignore, the dominant discourse of heterosexuality. As they created pathways through childhood, they shaped gendered routes for themselves, thus influencing the gendering of other children's pathways. (SM)