Here are a few groaners to get you warmed up for Thanksgiving… Q: If the Pilgrims were still alive today, what would they be best known for? A: Their age! Q: What are the feathers on a turkey’s wings called? A: Turkey feathers. Duh! Q: What did the mother turkey say to her disobedient children? [...]
Raising4Boys participated in two carnivals this week. Here they are along with links to our articles that were included in each. The Carnival of Personal Finance included “Don’t Let Your Kids Get Ahold of Your Checkbook.” Also included was “What is Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI)?” from fivecentnickel.com. The Best of Me Symphony included “Hidden [...]
As a followup to my previous post on Nintendo Wii availability, I just received this from Amazon.com… Important News For Amazon.com Video Games Customers The Nintendo Wii will be available for purchase on Amazon.com on 11/19, Sunday morning (PST). We will be limiting purchases to one per household and we anticipate that we will sell [...]
Yesterday afternoon I was poking around online for something (can’t recall exactly what) when I ran across a really cool site with an absolute ton of printable mazes. In fact, they claim to have one billion different mazes. While it’s impossible to tell if there’s actually a billion unique mazes, there sure are a lot. [...]
“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” -Ernest Dimnet
According to the CDC, kids between the ages of 6 months and 8 years that haven’t ever received a flu vaccine are supposed to get two doses their first time around, and these doses should be given a month (or more) apart. The problem is that most kids haven’t been getting their second dose… According [...]
Believe it or not, our nine year old son made this one up the other day. He was trying to make up a funny joke and was failing miserably when he suddenly stumbled onto this one. The fact that it made sense and was actually kind of funny/clever surprised us so much that we both [...]
Raising4Boys participated in two carnivals this week. Here they are along with links to our articles that were included in each… The Healthy and Fit Family Carnival included “Getting Kids Moving With a Pedometer.” The Carnival of the Vanities included “How to Take Responsibility When You’re Four.” Also included was “Five Questions (and Answers) About [...]
Just a quick note to welcome those of you that found your way here via Catherine Hockmuth’s article in the Voice of San Diego. Also mentioned in the article was our sister site over at fivecentnickel.com (along with a number of other very worthwhile sites). If you’re a new visitor, then welcome. If you’ve been [...]
So maybe this explains the fact that we wound up with four boys… A recent study out of the Czech Republic concluded that women infected with Toxoplasma gondii are more likely to give birth to boys than are women who are toxoplamosis-free. In most populations, 51% of babies born are males, but in women infected [...]
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