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Helping Boys Succeed in School

by Marcus Jackson, EdD With the right support and motivation, all boys can succeed in school! Try these simple tips to help the boys in your classroom or home: For Teachers Build a strong relationship with your students. As obvious and rudimentary as it sounds, your

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Raising Boys: Reality vs. Internet Reality

This is what raising boys looks like, at least some of the time. Note the blue teeth on my youngest, there in the background. You may have your own policy about candy and artificially-colored food, but in my family, the policy is Do What You

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Winners!

We have our winners! Five lucky readers have won official BuildingBoys T-shirts. The winners are: Tara Kent Meagan Francis Elizabeth Hanes Mom Brillance Kelly Xavier Didn’t win a T-shirt? Still want one? Stay tuned! We’ll soon be offering BuildingBoys T-shirts in our Store.    

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Summer Safety: First Aid Essentials

Prong #2 of my Summer Safety Program: Preparation. A well-stocked first aid kit is an essential for anyone who spends time with boys. You don’t have to have an official, pre-loaded first aid kit –but you do need to have the essentials on hand and

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Summer Safety: Preventing Injuries

Ah, summer! Outdoor air, sun, sports, sand, swimming, biking — and blisters, sunburns and broken bones. Are you prepared to handle the most common summer injuries? I’ve found a two-pronged approach to be most helpful. Prong #1: Prevention Wrapping our boys in bubble wrap to

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Why Building Boys Matters

by Dr. G “I’m tired!” I sounded surprised, which was, I believe, the only strange part of this exclamation. As I was pregnant, and in residency, you’d think this would be a given, no? “Sweetheart,” my husband would tell me, “Give yourself a break. You’re

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Win a BuildingBoys T-Shirt!

  To celebrate the launch of BuildingBoys.net, I’m giving away 5 BuildingBoys t-shirts!  The shirts feature our super-awesome logo (as designed by our web designer extraordinaire, Ron Doyle), 3/4 length sleeves and a super-comfy, soft material. I know I’m biased, but I’m telling you: this

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Raising a Prince

How would you like that responsibility — raising the prince? That was the question my mom posed to the table last night, in the midst of a raucous family dinner that included my mother and father (now both in their 70s), my oldest brother and

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Why Don’t Boys Play with Toys?

by Jennifer Fink Just-released data indicates that Hasbro’s “boy toy” division is not doing well. According to their financial reports, revenue for the boys’ toys division dropped 35 percent in the 2nd quarter. This is the fifth straight quarter that the boys’ division has reported

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What Macklemore Can Teach Us About Boys

Boys will enhance your world, if you let them. My four sons have expanded my world in so many ways. If not for my boys, I’d have no idea what Minecraft is. (OK, I still don’t really understand Minecraft , but I at least have a

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Why Do Boys…

…Love to Fight? Most boys don’t love to fight, but the ones that do, do it to show their strength. -Max, age 10 Boys like to fight because it separates the kids from the boys. It is also about that rush of adrenalin you get

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