It’s birthday party time again for our soon to be 9 year old son. Since he and his friends are getting older and more rambunctious I thought it would be best to have the party somewhere other than our house. We decided on a local Nature Center that rehabilitates injured animals for return to the [...]
Q: When is a car like a frog?
After talking a bit about hot Christmas toys the other day, and how hard it’s going to be to find and buy TMX Elmo in the runup to Christmas, I thought I’d talk a bit about another hot Christmas toy… The Nintendo Wii. As it turns out, Amazon took pre-orders for the Wii for a [...]
“Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.” -Elbert Hubbard
By now, any parent worth their salt has heard the term “overscheduling” when it comes to putting your kids in extracurricular activities. While parents understandably want to provide their kids with opportunities, it’s definitely possible to push things too far. Our own ‘policy’ has been to keep our kids out of organized sports until they [...]
This is an excerpt from a real conversation that I had with our (then) five year old one day after kindergarten last year: Me: What do you like the most about school? Him: Umm, I don’t know. Me: Well, what do you like the least about school? Him: Umm, listening, I guess. Because sometimes when [...]
Raising4Boys participated in two carnivals this week. Here they are along with links to our posts that were included in each. The Carnival of Personal Finance included “Teaching a Six Year Old to Save.” Also included was “Treasury Securities: A Survey of What’s Available” from fivecentnickel.com. The Carnival of the Vanities included “Summer Swimming Pool [...]
Have you had a chance to buy your TMX Elmo yet? If not, you might be hurting when the holiday shopping season is in full swing… Described as “the most secretly guarded toy of the pre-holiday season,” Fisher Price recently unveiled the TMX Elmo on Good Morning America, and it’s (apparently) already hard to find [...]
If only they made people take a test and earn a license before having kids. Wait a minute… They’re thinking about doing just that in New Zealand! Indeed, a panel of experts has proposed that all parents should have to sit through a parenting test if they want to maintain custody of their children.
“Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.” -C. Everett Koop
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