President Obama may have won the Nobel Peace Prize, but he’s certainly not a popular figure in our house right now. (And I’m an Obama fan!) The reason for the discord? My boys saw this headline in Sunday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “Kids Need More Time
Sandra Dodd’s son, Marty, is right: her Big Book of Unschooling makes an excellent bathroom book. Broken down into small, manageable bits, Sanda Dodd’s Big Book of Unschooling is inspiration waiting for action. It’s accessible, welcoming — and the perfect anti-dote for parental self-doubt. Her
I was going to write about the boy who shot an alligator. Then I found this newsclip online: “Never having heard the term ‘green energy,’ an African boy unknowingly brought ancient, and at the same time, leading edge technology to his family’s small subsistence farm.”
This Boy #1 — before he hit his growth spurt, before his baby teeth fell out and before Boy #4 was born and this room was converted into Boy #1’s bedroom. This is also what happens when you lose your camera. My camera has been
Do your boys like to write? Most boys don’t. Boys’ fine motor skills tend to develop later than girls’, and so for most boys, the physical act of holding a pencil or pen and creating words is frustrating and painful. But what if I told
Kim, of Kim’s Play Place, recently nominated me for my first-ever homeschool blog award. The awards are given by Alasandra’s Homeschool Blog, an intriguing site if ever I saw one. Recently, she’s been running a series of posts covering the controversy the erupted when school
Happy October! Today, we kick off a new feature: Books for Boys. Approximately once per week, I’ll highlight a Book for Boys (or Boy Parents), a book I think your boys will love — or one that will make your job as a boy parent
Talk about a popular product! I received over 200 entries for the LeapFrog Tag Reading System giveaway. So with no further ado, the winner is…. Oh, who am I kidding? We’ve all watched enough American Idol and Dancing with the Stars to know that the
I woke up to popcorn all over the living room floor. Boy #4, apparently, had saved his popcorn from last night for an early morning snack — except that, from the looks of it, less than half made it to his mouth. Before I’d even
On the positive side, there are some girls who emerge out of the divorced, mother-headed households as exceptionally resilient young women. It seems that some young women thrive on the increased responsibilities and challenges that they face in these families, and they develop warm and
Boxers or briefs? My boys always wore briefs — maybe because my brothers always did or because their dad did. Somehow, briefs just seemed right. But lately, they’ve become aware of boxers and wanted to try them out. Without going into too much detail, let’s
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