Posted by Unknown | 10:21 AM

That's the sight I saw out my window the other day: Boy #2 helping Boy#3 ride his bike. See, it's not all just fighting around here...

0 comments Labels: blogathon, blogs, family, fights, living with boys, Snapshot Sunday

Posted by Unknown | 1:35 PM

Ok, you're going to have to give me some input. According to our latest poll, you're almost 50/50 split on the new look. So tell me...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:48 AM

Boys need two things that we tend to forget about when we focus only on their physical abilities and their higher activity levels: They nee...

0 comments Labels: affection, books about boys, family, gender differences, living with boys, science

Posted by Unknown | 4:53 PM

We have another blogathon guest blogger today! Sarah Webb is a scientist-turned-writer who has written about subjects including stem cell...

0 comments Labels: blogathon, gender differences, guest blogger, prenatal influences, science

Posted by Unknown | 4:51 PM

Boys #2 and 3 got into it today. Again. Boy #2 looked across the lunch table and told #3, "I hate you." Inside, I was screaming. W...

0 comments Labels: affection, discipline, family, living with boys, parenting

Posted by Unknown | 11:05 AM

Thirteen-year-old Daniel Hauser has returned home . Hauser is the (homeschooled) Minnesota boy who last week disappeared with his mother, Co...

0 comments Labels: community, education, ethics, family, homeschool

Posted by Unknown | 11:55 AM

My boys love candy. They love Halloween, with loaded down plastic pumpkins. They love softball games, with concession stands full of trea...

0 comments Labels: family, food, gender differences, listening, living with boys, parenting, Sandra Dodd, science

Posted by Unknown | 11:51 AM

Over on Digital Mom , writer Melissa Sais muses about screen time. We've been told over and over how bad sitting in front of the TV is...

0 comments Labels: blogathon, blogs, family, living with boys, parenting, television, video games

Posted by Unknown | 11:55 AM

A couple months ago, we talked about the sad case of Alfie Patten , the British 13-year-old who was thought to have fathered a daughter, Mai...

0 comments Labels: Alfie Patten, ethics, homeschool, parenting, sex, youngest dad

Posted by Unknown | 12:25 PM

In honor of our May Blogathon , today is officially Blog Post Exhange Day. I'm blogging on Blog Salad today, while freelance writer and...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:26 AM

Andrea , Denise and more are right : I'm not a horrible Mom for letting my three-year-old ride his bike to Ben Franklin yesterday. Li...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:12 AM

The boys asked today if we could go to Ben Franklin, a variety store/mini-Walmart place about half a mile from our house. Since I had time a...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:23 AM

Does having brothers prepare you for having boys? Most of our readers (44%) said yes. Of course, 22% said no and another 22% said they don...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:54 PM

A judge in Minnesota just ruled that a 13-year-old boy must undergo chemotherapy . The boy, who has Hodgkin's lymphoma , and his parents...

0 comments Labels: ethics, health, parenting

Posted by Unknown | 8:44 AM

...your three-year-old comes in from outside and says, "Worms in my hood." You walk over, briefly peruse said hood and reassure hi...

0 comments Labels: living with boys, parenting, You know you have boys

Posted by Unknown | 7:00 AM

Fellow blogathoner Jackie Dishner has a great post today, Partner with Others . "If you're having a difficult time moving forward,...

0 comments Labels: blogathon, blogs, homeschool, living with boys, parenting, socialization

Posted by Unknown | 12:57 PM

Max Elliot Anderson writes books for boys and hosts Books for Boys , a blog that’s all about encouraging boys to read. His seven published b...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:17 PM

I don't know about you, but my boys love science. It could be because they have a former nurse for a mother and an engineer for a father...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:09 AM

Once again, Jacob is the most popular baby boy name. According to a recent report by the Social Security Administration, the top 10 most pop...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:22 PM

Check out the Boys and Girls at Risk Conference : The Emerging Science of Gender Differences in Madison, WI this June 16-17. Conference work...

0 comments Labels: gender differences, learning, living with boys

Posted by Unknown | 11:37 AM

Yes, that was a shameless plea for your attention. According to our latest poll, a majority of readers believe that video games are primaril...

0 comments Labels: learning, poll, video games

Posted by Unknown | 12:01 PM

Yeah, I'd never heard of it either. But the National Association for the Education of Young Children helped me out with a story this we...

0 comments Labels: childcare, gender differences, holidays

Posted by Unknown | 11:52 AM

It's a sick day at our house. Boy #3 is on the couch with a raging fever and sore throat, Boy #2 has a hacking cough and runny nose, Bo...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:40 AM

What kinds of things are you curious about regarding your boys? Do you have questions regarding their health and safety? Development? Educat...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:04 PM

It's a beautiful day outside today -- sunny and 70 degrees. So when it came time to read this afternoon, I decided to apply my new-found...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:39 PM

Believe it or not, my life is more than just boys. I'm also a nationally-published freelance writer and an active member of Freelance Su...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:48 AM

Boy brains and girl brains are different. I've been reading a lot about the bio-neurological differences between the sexes (a great intr...

0 comments Labels: gender differences, Michael Gurian, Minds of Boys