It’s Our Job to Teach Our Boys Emotional Skills Too
Our sons need us to teach them emotional skills. Life skills. Emotional skills. Coping skills. They all need to be taught. That’s part of our job as parents. If we…
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Get Boys Reading With These 5 Tips
Do you have a reluctant reader? Many parents have boys who just don’t want to sit reading. But there are ways to get boys reading. These five ways are worth…
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Where Are All the Male Teachers and Why it Matters
Is it important for children to have both female and male teachers? What impact does it have on a child to only have female teachers in front of them in…
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A Message For Our Highly Sensitive Boys About Male Stereotypes
Male stereotypes are damaging. Society’s expectations are causing our boys serious mental health problems. And it needs to stop. The truth is that many highly sensitive boys don’t match up…
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I’m the Mother of Boys, and Only Boys – And That’s More Than Fine
I am the mother of three boys. Three highly sensitive boys for that matter. If you are the parent of exclusively sons, or parenting solely daughters then you have probably…
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Is My Son Highly Sensitive?
Is there something you can’t quite put your finger on about your son? Have teachers or medical professionals thrown the words autism, ADHD or ADD around without any of them…
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My Boys are Not Stereotypes, They Are So Much More
Anyone else fed up of stereotypes about boys? Little boys get bad press. They’re noisy, physical, aggressive and constantly covered in mud. If it doesn’t have wings or wheels or…
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Changing the Notion that Big Boys Don’t Cry, One Little Boy at a Time
I watched a young boy on the school playground with his father, tears streaming down his little face, uncontrollably weeping about something his father considered trivial. Instead of offering comfort,…
