By The Washington Post on 08/12/2018 “… Erica Nicholson knew that her son, Sam, was small. Considering that she was barely 5 feet and 100 pounds and that his older sister was a “peanut,” it didn’t seem unusual. …” Read the entire article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/when-a-child-is-extremely-short-should-a-parent-consider-growth-hormone/2018/08/10/05a8080a-9985-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html?utm_term=.c3cebc976212
Category: Parenting Boys
So what if my sons are Mummy’s boys? They’re the kind, caring men of the future
By Telegraph on 08/07/2018 “… In other words, boys who, in the tumultuous, challenging years of adolescence, enjoy a warm, loving relationship with their mothers are less likely to struggle with depression, anxiety and other psychological issues than those who don’t. …” Read the entire article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/parenting/sons-mummys-boys-kind-caring-men-future/
Popular light-up sneakers left boy with second-degree burns on feet, mom claims
By Fox News on 07/05/2018 “… Sherry Foster, who shared photos of her son Peyton’s injuries on Facebook, said that it happened after the sneakers got wet during water day at school. …” Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/07/05/popular-light-up-sneakers-left-boy-with-second-degree-burns-on-feet-mom-claims.html
Men’s childhood environment may determine testosterone levels later, says study
By The Health Site on 06/26/2018 “… Men who grew up in challenging conditions like prevalence of infectious diseases or poor nutrition may have lower levels of testosterone — male sex hormone — in later life, says a study. …” Read the entire article: http://www.thehealthsite.com/news/mens-childhood-environment-may-determine-testosterone-levels-later-says-study-ag0618/
‘Get shredded in six weeks!’ The problem with extreme male body transformations
By The Guardian on 06/27/2018 “… Men’s Health magazine has transformed many men – and its own fortunes – by featuring extreme muscle makeovers. But does changing shape fast have a dark side? …” Read the entire article: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jun/27/get-shredded-in-six-weeks-the-problem-with-extreme-male-body-transformations
You Don’t Hit Girls
By Psychology Today on 06/21/2018 “… One of the clearest messages I heard from my father when I was a boy was this: You don’t hit girls. I wasn’t supposed to start fights with boys either, but if one of them were to hit me, my dad made it clear that I could, and, in fact, READ MORE
Solving the Pronoun Problem
By Psychology Today on 06/06/2018 “… In his recent post, Cody Kommers suggests that in order to correct the hundreds of years that our language used the generic masculine, a better approach than struggling with “he or she” or “s/he,” or going back and forth between the generic masculine and generic feminine, is that we simply switch to READ MORE
Exclusive: Craig Morgan Admits Son Jerry’s Death is the ‘First Thing I Think About When I Wake Up’
By Pop Culture on 02/28/2018 “… Craig Morgan and his wife, Karen, experienced every parent’s worst nightmare in 2016, when their 19-year-old son, Jerry, drowned while tubing on a lake with his friends. …” Read the entire article: http://popculture.com/country-music/2018/02/28/craig-morgan-jerry-greer-son-died-exclusive/
Why primary school boys are needing mental health intervention
By Riot Act on 01/24/2018 “… It was a cry for help from a parent that made Menslink realise that a growing number of primary school boys were in need of mental health support. Now 10 to 12-year-old boys make up 12 per cent of the male support group’s client case, which CEO Martin Fisk said was not READ MORE
Teen pregnancies decline
By News Press Now on 01/29/2018 “… The YWCA also offers a program for teen parents called Healthy Teen Parents/Health Babies. McChristy thinks sex education is a big part of the declining rate of teen pregnancies. “I have not seen anyone who has gone through those programs (Choices and Decisions) in my program, the Healthy Teen/Healthy READ MORE