I’ll admit it: I did not know that Otis Redding sang Respect. An anonymous commenter did, though. Anonymous had a couple other interesting thoughts about boys and respect. Listen: Among boys, respect is earned by testing each other by irritating, teasing, hitting, competing, etc. These
With all, ahem, respect to Aretha Franklin, this post is about respect. My good friend and fellow blogger, Sarah Ludwig (remember her from the blogathon?) is running a wonderful contest on her blog, Parenting By Trial and Error. She’s giving away a book called The
Have you heard about this study yet? Seems even preschoolers get depressed these days. Our national mythology tells us childhood is a happy time, but that’s just so not for a lot of kids. (Take these boys, for instance.) Is it possible that some of
Have you heard about this study yet? Seems even preschoolers get depressed these days. Our national mythology tells us childhood is a happy time, but that’s just so not for a lot of kids. (Take these boys, for instance.) Is it possible that some of
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 Mississippi River), I was not looking forward to the trip. Just one day before departure, I loaded
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 cause of boys’ poor reading skills. Poor teaching is. I think he’s onto something. I don’t mean to imply that
As you know, I’m leery of any potty training method that promises too much. I don’t believe you can train your child in a day or three days, and I don’t believe that a miracle intervention is all that stands between you, your son and
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 training. christinemm had a question, though, and she brings up a good point: A note on the
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