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It’s me, Boy Wonder again. Thanks for reading my last blog on why tweens need cell phones. It made me feel good to have you read it because some people thought I was right. I’m on summer vacation but it doesn’t feel like I am. My mom has been making my brother and me do […]
Hi, this is Boy Wonder and I’m 10 years old. My mom is Mommyfriend and I’m writing on her blog to tell parents something very important: kids my age need a cell phone. My parents think kids in elementary school shouldn’t have cell phones unless they really need one. My mom says the only kids […]
Tweens and teens are hard to please on family vacations. Why? Because they’d probably rather be anywhere else than stuck in a minivan with their family. Relax friend, I’m just telling it like it is. As a parent who’s dealt with her share of sigh-heavy tween protest on vacations in the name of Griswold-esque family […]
Being a tween isn’t easy – just ask them. From 9 to 12 years old our kids begin the physically taxing and emotionally draining metamorphosis of child to adolescent. Not only are our kids facing the wonder, stress, and excitement that come from bodily changes; they’re overcome by something far less tangible and easily understood […]
The older my kids get, the more expensive their tastes become. I don’t have to tell you that teaching our kids the value of money from a young age is vitally important. Quite simply, the very best way to teach our kids financial responsibility is to provide them with the opportunity to earn money for […]
Last week I had the amazing opportunity to yank my tween son out of school (yes, during state testing) and bring him as my date to an incredible blogger event at Disneyland. At the risk of sounding trite, the day was pure magic. Boy Wonder is my firstborn and for the first five years it […]
“Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what’s to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn’t have to […]
I love that my son has an imagination that reaches beyond the limits of logic and conventional wisdom. It’s one of the things I love most about him. At 10 years old, Boy Wonder is more certain of his beliefs than I ever was at his age, or even am now as a person well […]
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