Son #3 just lost his very first tooth. As you can see, he’s pretty happy about the whole deal! And what’s not to like? When you think about, losing a tooth is a pretty sweet deal: absolute physical evidence that you’re growing up and precious
Liz Atwood at Charm City Moms writes about tween boys today. Specifically, she asks if tween boys are ignored. Apparently, a Google search for “tween girls” gives you over 2 million hits. Search “tween boys” and get less than a million-and-a-half. Seems marketers, etc. have
Newsweek ran an interesting My Turn essay a few weeks ago. The March 9, 2009 edition featured an essay entitled, “Autism and Education,” which was written by a mother of two. One of her children — her son — is autistic. Her daughter is not,
Did you know I once worked the night shift? I did — and learned that nights have blessings of their own. Check out my guest posting at Nightshift NYC.
konnie asked an interesting question after my last post. She’d heard that boys are 3 times more likely than girls to have ADHD and asked if that was true. So I did a little digging. And discovered that it’s not a simple question with a
ScienceDaily (2009-03-18) — Researchers trying to uncover the mechanisms that cause attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder have found an abnormality in the brains of adolescent boys suffering from the conditions, but not where they expected to find it. For the full story, click
I voted for President Obama, but I disagree with him about universal preschool. President Obama is a strong supporter of universal preschool, or free government preschool for every 4-yr-old in the country. I am not. Those who know me know that I am most certainly
Last Wednesday we talked with Greg Wondra, a video game designer at Zindagi Games, about how to get into the video game industry. Today, Wondra talks about kids and video games.What would you say to parents who are concerned about the amount of time their
The issue of boys falling behind in school is attracting attention on the other side of the pond as well. The Times Online yesterday published an article called, “All Work and No Play is Bad for Boys.” In it, the author points out the academic
My boys are duct taping each other to chairs. For fun. Apparently, this is what they do for fun when I’m otherwise occupied. I was on the computer, doing some online banking, when I heard, “Mom, come look!” Son #1 was completely duct taped to
There’s a cute little questionnairre going around Facebook lately, where you ask your kids questions about you and post the answers for all your friends to see — questions like, “What is something Mom always says to you?” and “What’s your Mom’s favorite thing to
A new study out today finds that increasing numbers of teen boys are using smokeless tobacco products, such as snuff and chewing tobacco. According to a report by the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, between 2002 and 2007, there was a 30%
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