Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
By admin | February 1, 2008
Looking for a book to help your son get a head start on reading? Are you a home school parent looking for a good text to use to teach your child to read? Or are you looking to supplement the reading skills of a struggling reader? Whatever your reason for wanting to teach your son to read, 100 Easy Lessons is guaranteed to address your needs. Based on the DISTAR method of instruction, 100 Easy Lessons is a practical, hands on manual that just about any parent can use to teach their child to read. When you are finished the book your child will be reading at the end of a 2nd grade level. READ MORE
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Getting Boys to Read
By admin | February 1, 2008
Reading is an invaluable skill in today’s world. Yet we know that boys are slower to learn to read and that as they approach the teen years they begin to lose interest in reading. Experts seem to agree that boys typically lose interest in reading due to the type of reading material that we present to them and that there are many other activities that boys gravitate towards other than reading. Fortunately, we are beginning to understand why boys lose interest in reading and there are things we can do about this all too important issue. MORE
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Healthy Anger by Bernard Golden, PhD
By admin | January 3, 2008
Much like the featured article of the month, this book really works to help you understand the nature of anger, why we get angry and the variety of ways that anger gets expressed, good and bad. The book also is very helpful in that it makes a number of suggestions in terms of techniques to help you deal with your child’s anger. Do you know of any good books about this topic? We would love to hear any suggestions you may make.Read the Review.
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Boys and Anger
By admin | January 3, 2008
This article suggests that you need to understand what makes you angry and have a better handle on your own anger in order to effectively deal with you child’s anger. What do you think? Have any suggestions for management of anger that isn’t mentioned in the article?Read the Article.
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Raising Boys without Men Book Review
By admin | November 30, 2007
Peggy Drexler, PhD presents an argument that boys can be raised without men. This argument is based on her research into mothers raising boys without fathers in the home and doing so by choice. The majority of the mothers were lesbian couples. This review questions some of the elements of the study as well as some of the conclusions she draws from her own observations. What do you think?Read the Review.
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Boys Need Dads
By admin | November 30, 2007
With the debate over what constitutes marriage and family continuing to heat up, the discussion of wether children need the presence of a particular gendered parent (mostly fathers) is raised. This is a necessary discussion in this debate. The reason for the necessity is in order for marriage and family to be redefined proponents need to convince us that this will do no harm to children. This article argues that boys do need dads, that dads are not disposable. Thoughts?Read the full article.
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Current Article: Teen Boys
By admin | November 15, 2007
Judging by the volume of visits to my article on teen boys, this is a hot topic. Dealing with adolescent males can be a challenge, I hope the article was helpful in getting you started in understanding your teen boy. Leave comments about the article, questions or helpful tips or observations you have made about teen boys
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Welcome to the community
By admin | November 15, 2007
Thanks for visiting. The purpose of the blog is to provide a place for interaction around our concerns and joys about our boys. Some simple rules. All posts require a name and an email address, to avoid spam, thanks for the understanding. Post what you like, try to keep the posts relevant to the topic of boys and issues related to boys. Negative comments are welcome as well as positive ones in addition to questions. NO profanity, this will result in your post being removed. Thats about it, so let’s hear from you!
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Post Doesn’t fit any other category
By admin | November 14, 2007
Want to post something but can’t find the right category? Post it here, the catch all category when it just wont go anywhere else.
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Help!
By admin | November 14, 2007
This is the category for posts when you have a question or need help with something dealing with boys. Leave your question or answer a question if you can. Lets try to help one another.
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