How to Teach Your Kids Healthy Competition
By Todd G. Buchholz,
Author of Rush: Why You Need and Love the Rat Race
Back in 1986, an American minister named Robert Fulghum wrote a best-selling self-help book called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. The book was filled with entertaining essays about sharing, More »
Video Game Addiction — Why They’re So Compelling and Five Warning Signs for Assessing Risk
By Scott Rigby and Richard M. Ryan, Authors of Glued to Games: How Video Games Draw Us In and Hold Us Spellbound
Games are powerfully motivating of deep engagement that can last for hours on end, day after day. The first step to really understanding how to manage gaming in your More »
Tags: boys, gaming, girls, technology, Video game
More than Just a Knot
A Conversation with Screenwriter Antwone Fisher
By Evangelia Biddy
Drawing from his challenging childhood in foster care and then as a homeless teen, turned award-winning producer and author, Antwone Fisher shares practical wisdom for boys and parents of boys. His inspiration, the necktie! But this is about much more than a knot. More »
Tags: Antwone Fisher, boys, Foster care, Parent, Youth
A Recipe for Raising Fine Young Gentlemen
By Evangelia Biddy
The rules of civility are making a comeback, even among the MTV set. With a generation of young people who have grown up eating in minivans instead of dining rooms, social graces have taken, well, a back seat. The line between casual and crude have blurred and is More »
Tags: boys, Etiquette, Life skills, Manners, Social skill, Young Men
Raising Financially Fit Young People
By Evangelia Biddy
Not all children’s books need begin with “Once upon a time”, shares financial literacy expert Susan Beacham and New York Times bestselling author, Lynnette Khalfani Cox. The dynamic pair joined forces to create The Millionaire Kid$ Club™ children’s book series. The picture books teach children that money is More »
Tags: boys, Credit card, education, financial independence, financial literacy, girls, Lynnette Khalfani Cox, Millionaire kid$ club, millionaire kids club, responsible kids, Susan Beacham, Youth
Why Girls Get Pep Rallies and Boys Get Pills
An Interview with Jack Kammer
by Evangelia Biddy
Girls Rule! We get it! For some time there has been a powerful, ubiquitous, sustained, effort to help girls achieve success, in well, everything. Girls were behind in math and science; programs and initiatives emerged to pull them up. Girls were not participating in More »
Tags: AAUW, Arne Duncan, boys, Christina Hoff Sommers, girls, Gloria Steinem, Jack Kammer, prison, Steve Biddulph, teachers, William Pollack, women's studies
Bringing Up Strong Sensitive Boys
By Evangelia Biddy
As greater focus is paid to the study of males and in improving the educational outcomes of all boys, new research continues to surface. New studies show that twenty percent of all boys have a finely tuned nervous system. What does that mean? How is an increasingly global More »
Tags: boys, Bullying, men, school, sensitive boys
