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Books For 13 Year Old Boys

November 16, 2011

This post is a combined effort from me and my soon to be 13 year old son. He listed titles he has read over the last year that he thinks most 13 year old boys will like and gave me a brief description of each. (And in the true form of a teenager some of [...]

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Discipline Strategies – Helping Boys With Their Temper

July 13, 2010

Today’s post on discipline is actually a guest post from a very dear friend of mine Annie. I met Annie when she moved to Melbourne and joined our local playgroup. We were both pregnant with our second child, so it is quite fitting then, that the topic of her post is about her beautiful second [...]

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Talking With Your Children

June 9, 2010

Last week I reviewed the What’s Happening to Our Boys? AT RISK How the new technologies, drugs and alcohol, peer pressure and porn affect our boys. It certainly provided me with some insight into the types of behaviours my sons will be exposed to. A couple of clear take away messages for me were: Talking [...]

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Interview With Maggie Hamilton Author of “What’s Happening to Our Boys?”

June 4, 2010

Having four sons, the title alone was always going to draw me to this book What’s Happening to Our Boys? AT RISK How the new technologies, drugs and alcohol, peer pressure and porn affect our boys. What’s Happening to Our Boys by Maggie Hamilton is a follow up to her best selling book What’s Happening [...]

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He’ll Be Ok: Growing Gorgeous Boys Into Good Men (Part 2).

August 8, 2008

Last Friday saw Part 1 on my discussion of the wonderful book He’ll Be Ok: Growing Gorgeous Boys Into Good Men, by Celia Lashlie. Today I will look at what Lashlie discusses in chapters 4 – 6. The Bridge of Adolescence You could kind of see this coming, but the emphasis in this chapter was [...]

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10 Favourite Children’s Books – Thinker’s Choice

August 5, 2008

During August we celebrate Children’s Book Week. Book Week is the longest running children’s festival in Australia and is in its 63rd year. Book Week this year runs from August 16th -22nd and theme in 2008 is “Fuel your Mind”. To celebrate Book Week on this blog, each Tuesday in August I will be posting [...]

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He’ll Be Ok: Growing Gorgeous Boys Into Good Men (Part 1).

August 1, 2008

(Photo by DragonDrop) Back in June I posted about a talk that I went to at my children’s school on What To Expect When Expecting An Adolescent. I found the talk informative and an glimpse as to what I have coming in the next few years. A good friend then recommended me the book titled [...]