Guest Blogger: Back-to-School Tips for Boys

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Please welcome guest blogger Alexandra Mayzler today. Alexandra is the Founder and Director of Thinking Caps Tutoring , a comprehensive tut...

Now THIS Is Love

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A couple months ago, I blogged about showing love . I'd asked Boy #1 how he knows his Mom loves him and his answer was, "Because s...

Guest Blog: From Freeways to Flip-Flops

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I’m honored to be a guest blogger on “Blogging’Bout Boys.” My name is Sonia Marsh and I write the blog Gutsy Writer . In 2004 we left our c...

Blogging at the Speed of Life

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Ever have one of those weeks where there just seems to be more life than time? This week -- the third week in August -- is always my most ch...

Jesus Was a Boy Too

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I'm not exactly a Biblical blogger . In fact, we might go years and years without me ever mentioning the Bible again. And yet.... Last...

Dog Safety

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Did you know that young boys are at the greatest risk of dog bites? I didn't either -- and I probably should, since my parents got a do...

Boys Can Do Anything

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Equality is usually a world we hear in relationship to girls and women. The assumption is that boys and men have ruled the world for so long...

Up, Up and Away!

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Is there anything worse than traveling cross-country by air with four small boys? Well, yes -- not traveling and deadly disease come to min...

EC, or Diaper-Free

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We've talked a lot about potty training here lately. So it is with great pleasure that I introduce today's guest blogger, Christi...

Otis Knows Respect

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I'll admit it: I did not know that Otis Redding sang Respect. An anonymous commenter did, though. Anonymous had a couple other interes...

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

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With all, ahem, respect to Aretha Franklin , this post is about respect. My good friend and fellow blogger, Sarah Ludwig (remember her from ...

Boys & Depression

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Have you heard about this study yet? Seems even preschoolers get depressed these days. Our national mythology tells us childhood is a happ...

Road Trip!

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The reason for no post yesterday? I was on the road, four boys in tow. While I was looking forward to our destination (a scenic town by the...

Why Won't Boys Read?

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Richard Whitmire has a great post about boys and reading on Why Boys Fail . Basically, he says video games and peer pressure are not the ca...

The No-Cry Potty Training Solution

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As you know, I'm leer y of any potty training method that promises too much. I don't believe you can train your child in a day or t...

Potty Training Poll

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The results are in! It looks like most of our boys were trained by age 3 -- but also that there's a wide variation in ages for potty tr...

It All Comes Back to the Boys

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This week, I had the privilege of being a guest on The Morning Blend , a Milwaukee-area morning talk show. I was there to talk about the Hor...