Boys
Protecting your sons from aggressive girls
Yesterday I brought up the topic of aggressive girls - which is occurring at younger and younger ages, augmented by IMs and text-messaging - and which can take mothers of boys by surprise. I emphasized the responsibility of parents to be proactive in setting apporpriate guidelines and expectations for sons...April 22, 2008 - 12:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Hooking your kids on XBox games
From the At Least They're Honest department: ''We do a lot of testing to make sure that it's easy to pick up, easy to play, and, hopefully, easy to get addicted to,'' says designer Paul Bertone Jr. ''Some games, after you die, a box saying 'Do you want to...November 7, 2007 - 3:15 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Boys being boys
If you haven't visited my friend Carol at Parenting Decisions, today's a good time as she has some great pictures up of her boys "sword"-fighting. I'm already on my way to Amazon to try to find some swords like these for my little guys! Carol has some great information up...September 14, 2007 - 11:04 AM | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
Homeschooling little boys
Hi Barbara- I sure do appreciate you and all that you do! I am preparing to begin my 2nd year of homeschooling my 3 boys, who are 6 and under. I'm a bit nervous, because I know how wiggly they can get, and how it can sometimes be difficult...August 1, 2007 - 12:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
The American Boy's Handy Book
This from a dad who wanted to add on to my recommendation for The Dangerous Book for Boys: Here are some more books I like, for things for boys to do. You may want to put them on your blog. The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and...July 16, 2007 - 9:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Teasing, bullying, rejection
I am so behind with email and reading through it this morning while I wait for my flight out of Boston, I feel terrible because some of these were pressing problems. I don't know whether it's because I'm getting older, but my heart is growing more tender every day and...June 16, 2007 - 10:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (9) | TrackBack
Divorced mom seeks advice
This from a reader looking for our suggestions. Also, let's agree to pray for her, her son, and his father: Dear Barbara, I just stumbled on your website while I was searching for a good book for my 11 yr old son to be assigned (by me) to read over...May 18, 2007 - 2:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack
Celebrating BOYS! A Salute to Future Fathers
The Mother's Day Album - A Down Syndrome Celebration - is now up and running. This is an album that will be forever under construction. Please feel freeto send me more pictures. I just added two today. So on to Father's Day! The inspiration for this project came from this...May 17, 2007 - 5:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack
Geocaching
Barbara, I have enjoyed all your ideas about boys being boys. One thing our family enjoys is geocaching. I don't know if you are familiar with it. We use our GPS to find things that people have hidden in a wide variety of outdoor locations. We find the caches on...May 14, 2007 - 6:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
The Dangerous Book for Boys
Here we've just been talking about how we moms need to make an effort to nurture our boys' spirit of adventure and along comes a perfect book: The Dangerous Book for Boys! My friend Carol at Parenting Decisions wrote me about this today and I ordered my copy immediately....May 7, 2007 - 8:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack
Classic books and movies for boys
My reply to a reader who asked about books for boys really just scratched the surface. For one thing, I noticed that some readers who suggested books for boys (and I got a few in private emails too) missed the point I was trying to make about books that...May 3, 2007 - 8:03 AM | Permalink | Comments (14) | TrackBack
Tony's 911 call: Four year old hero gets help for mom
Listen to Tony's 911 call. Here's the story from the Fairbanks News-Miner: Going by the book: 4-year-old calls 911, stays calm after mother falls ill By Amanda Bohman, Published April 29, 2007 Deidre Savarino was wandering the toy aisle, as grandmothers do, at a St. Louis store when she came...May 2, 2007 - 2:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack
Books for boys
The emphasis here is on books of adventure, courage, and heroism that will encourage boys to grow up to strong men, books that kindle the masculine spirit - and that may not be part of what first come to mothers' minds. Hey hon - See comments on Raising Boys....April 29, 2007 - 3:55 PM | Permalink | Comments (24) | TrackBack
Raising boys - great advice from a reader
A longtime reader and friend, Lady Lovas - who's going through what seems to me to be the longest pregnancy on record :) - left such a great comment at my entry on Raising Boys, that I had to make sure everyone read it: Oh, how I love this...April 25, 2007 - 10:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (9) | TrackBack
Raising boys
Valerie mentioned that she was reading the chapter in The Mommy Survival Guide that has to do with raising boys. That chapter comes mostly from an article I wrote for Christian Parenting Today in 2001, which you can access by clicking below: The Truth About Boys (and Girls)...April 24, 2007 - 7:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
Spunky on raising sons of valor
From Spunky, filling in the gaps for me: Barbara, There were other heros. Here are just two This article has one very powerful testimony, "In Elementary German, Room 207, students had heard noise outside, but dismissed it as construction racket. The door was closed. Mr. Cho opened it, and before...April 23, 2007 - 3:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack
Boy Scouts of America
Another rerun I promised: A few months ago we had Boy Scouts at our church. Jonny fell in love with the uniform and decided he wanted to join. Now he goes to meetings every Monday with the troop and he's made some new friends (I am so grateful that we...April 23, 2007 - 6:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Building future heroes
One thing that's been on my mind about the Virginia Tech massacre is why the students were so passive. I'm not being disrespectful here, but trying to ask a very real question. What has happened to American heroism? The only hero I've heard of so far is the 77-year-old Holocaust...April 22, 2007 - 4:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack
Reader Q&A: Raising Boys
Hey y'all. I'm getting my best southern voice together since I'm leaving tomorrow for a week in California. I will be teaching/critiquing at the Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference. Today I am really rushing around trying to get myself together and to leave my family in the best possible...March 27, 2007 - 11:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (15) | TrackBack
Bringing up boys to be gentlemen
I was wondering if you had any advice on building character values. My son that is 4, is not as respectful as we would like. He gets upset and then gets snippy with whom ever has aggravated him. He snatches toys from his sister and raises his voice. I just...January 19, 2007 - 4:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack
Anyone else seen Rocky Balboa?
When a reader recommends something to me, I definitely want to check it out. This in from Linda: Barbara, I wanted to bravely recommend Rocky Balboa, too. My husband really wanted us to see it. I was laughing on the way to see it and crying on the way...December 30, 2006 - 2:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack
A father takes on the anti-recess establishment
Ken in North Port, Florida sent me a link to his site Where Did Recess Go? - which may be of interest to some of you: As a normal everyday parent, I had no clue my child was not getting A behaviorally necessary, psychologically necessary and most of all medically...October 25, 2006 - 4:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack
Preparing future mommies and daddies
I am so excited to have found these two wonderful books my children grew up with. I’ve been wanting to recommend them, but they seemed to have disappeared. Amazon has some used copies of the Mommy one starting at 34.75 – gulp! I found these newly-published copies for only 4.46...September 26, 2006 - 4:11 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Parenting Q&A - delegating diapering
Here's something we need to discuss. I'm going to be offline for eight hours or so as I make my way home from Denver today, but will post all your comments when I get home. A reader writes: I really just wanted to know your opinion on having a pre-adolescent...July 12, 2006 - 8:26 AM | Permalink | Comments (12) | TrackBack
Boy Scouts of America
A few months ago we had Boy Scouts at our church. Jonny fell in love with the uniform and decided he wanted to join. Now he goes to meetings every Monday with the troop and he's made some new friends (I am so grateful that we live in a...June 20, 2006 - 7:36 AM | Permalink | Comments (12) | TrackBack
