Posted by Unknown | 9:49 AM

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

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Posted by Unknown | 12:11 PM

"Boy development is trustworthy." -- Michael Thompson, author of It's a Boy How often do we worry about our sons? When th...

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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...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:51 PM

Today, my boys' favorite toys are yarn, clay and plastic cups. They have spent hours wrapping each other in yarn and creating intricate...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:44 PM

The queen of "strewing" (the leaving about of interesting things), Sandra Dodd, has a great blog, Thinking Sticks . Check out yest...

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