If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!What are core questions? Those that kids need answers to on a daily basis, even before they can speak. Let me illustrate
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I am sitting at my monitor in the pre-dawn dark reading email. I hear Boy 4 […]
You know the problem with some parenting books? And with most parenting advice given by well meaning experts? They seem to presuppose an ideal world that doesn’t exist. Problem behavior in toddlers? Put them in time out. Problem teens? Take away privileges.
The advice is often good and the tactics are tried and proven effective… by […]
What does it take these days to be a great father? Maybe just three qualities, if Fathers.com is right. It has been running a series of small articles punctuated with YouTube vids to illustrate the three qualities that all great dads possess.
Guess what’s not on the list? Lots of money, being a buddy to […]
Other than the x chromosome, that is.
It’s nice when someone else says it. Doubly nice when that someone is a woman.
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A couple of weeks ago I posted some facts cited by Michael Gurian in support of his claim that boys today are in crisis. Editors at Time Magazine must read my blog because the cover story in last week’s US version challenged the idea that boys are in trouble, citing achievements by today’s boys and […]
Artwork by Boy 7. I was wearing my Ninja suit that day.-->
