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I love books about boys -- who they are, how they think and how we, as parents, can nurture them. The latest entry into this category is Wi...

0 comments Labels: books about boys, family, parenting, wild things

Posted by Unknown | 7:21 PM

My sons are blessed with an abundance of uncles -- 4 on my side of the family, plus another 2 on hubby's side. Years ago, boys were rai...

0 comments Labels: family, learning, Michael Gurian, Minds of Boys, uncles

Posted by Unknown | 1:10 PM

OK, parents -- help me out. According to our poll, your sons' most popular sport is "other." Anyone care to fill me in? What o...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:16 PM

Our guest blogger today is Jeanne Faulconer, articles editor at Home Education Magazine and a homeschooling Mom of -- you guessed it! -- bo...

0 comments Labels: discipline, guest blogger, parenting, physical aggression

Posted by Unknown | 10:58 AM

I was not the most popular child in my class. In fact, I wasn't in the popular circle at all. I was way, way down the popularity totem...

0 comments Labels: popularity, socialization

Posted by Unknown | 12:58 PM

You've heard it before: play is the work of childhood. But even caring adults sometimes have a hard time seeing the value in, well, ju...

0 comments Labels: homeschool, learning, playing cards

Posted by Unknown | 11:05 AM

Today the boys and I saw the Super Scientific Circus with our homeschool group. It was great! Using laughter, music and an uncanny sense o...

0 comments Labels: learning, science, theatre

Posted by Unknown | 12:39 PM

I planned to take the kids to the Building for Kids today, the awesome children's museum in Appleton that features a working crane, min...

0 comments Labels: bad day, discipline, learning

Posted by Unknown | 1:30 PM

Our guest blogger today is my dear friend and veteran homeschooling Mom, Kristi Scorcio. As you can see from the pic, Kristi is the Mom of ...

0 comments Labels: guest blogger, listening, teens

Posted by Unknown | 10:05 AM

Video games and computers won the "Boys' Favorite Toy" poll! A lot of people would bemoan this result. After all, video games ...

0 comments Labels: computers, learning, video games

Posted by Unknown | 6:49 PM

Remember the story of Alfie Patten , the 13-year-old British boy who reportedly recently fathered a child after one night of unprotected sex...

0 comments Labels: Alfie Patten, sex

Posted by Unknown | 12:15 PM

Yesterday, Son #1 and I went to the Milwaukee Musky Expo . I am not a fisherman (or woman) by any means. I still squirm while putting a wo...

0 comments Labels: fishing, learning, science

Posted by Unknown | 11:24 AM

While Americans continue to talk about octuplet Mom Nadya Suleman , Brits are talking about Alfie Patten , a 13-year-old boy who recently be...

0 comments Labels: Alfie Patten, Nadya Suleman, sex

Posted by Unknown | 1:40 PM

In case you've missed the controversy, actress Salma Hayek recently made headlines when she breastfed a baby boy on a UNICEF trip to Af...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:16 PM

We have a real treat today! If you're a homeschooler, particularly of the unschooling variety, you may have already heard of Sandra Dod...

0 comments Labels: homeschool, Sandra Dodd, teens, unschooling, work

Posted by Unknown | 10:47 AM

I'll admit it: although my boys love building with blocks, sculpting playdough and riding bikes outside, I'm one of the parents who ...

0 comments Labels: learning, Sandra Dodd, television

Posted by Unknown | 12:57 PM

Lisa Pugh, an acquaintance of mine and a 2009 Kennedy Foundation Public Policy Fellow, recently wrote an eye-opening post on her wonderful ...

0 comments Labels: education, homeschool, learning

Posted by Unknown | 12:40 PM

Last night, I was priviledged to watch an amazing display of Native American dance at my husband's annual company party. It might seem ...

0 comments Labels: dance, learning, unschooling

Posted by Unknown | 11:12 AM

Life Learning Family posted about obsessions this week. Reading her post gets me thinking about all the fasicinating ways our individual i...

0 comments Labels: collecting, homeschool, machines, YuGiOh

Posted by Unknown | 2:39 PM

Marble runs were all the rage at my house yesterday. We got the idea a year or so ago, when my two older boys took a "Rollercoaster...

0 comments Labels: Discovery World, homeschool, indoor activity

Posted by Unknown | 1:59 PM

This story just strikes me the wrong way. I get the school administration's point, I really do. For each child they get enrolled in th...

0 comments Labels: fishing, homeschool

Posted by Unknown | 10:05 AM

My boys have rediscovered their YuGiOh cards. For those of you who are unfamiliar with YuGiOh, it's a trading card game, kind of like P...

0 comments Labels: card games, collecting, math, unschooling, YuGiOh

Posted by Unknown | 12:59 PM

You have 2 laundry piles -- dark , and underwear You spend hours watching tractors and machines on YouTube Wrestling is a typical after-d...

0 comments Labels: machines, tractors, winter, wrestling, You know you have boys

Posted by Unknown | 4:34 PM

My boys aren't (yet) big football fans -- although being in Packer Country, they all avidly followed the Brett Favre retirement/un-retir...

0 comments Labels: Brett Favre, football, math, multiplication, Packers, Super Bowl