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23 September 202621 pieces
- Boys & GirlsSet Up the Internet for Your Kid Before They Can Argue BackThe filters, settings and house rules that work on a seven-year-old, plus the one sentence that does more than all of them combined.
- Boys & GirlsThe Under 100 Dollar Birthday Party Kids Actually RememberSkip the trampoline park package. Two hours, one big idea, and a cake your kid helped wreck beats anything you can rent.
- Boys & GirlsMake Grandparents a Weekly Habit, Not a HolidayThe grandparent bond isn't built at Christmas. It's built on a standing Sunday call with a job attached, and it changes both of them.
- Boys & GirlsFirst Tools for Kids Start With a 10-Ounce HammerBuy the real hammer, not the plastic one, then give your kid a job that actually needed doing. Here's what fits small hands and what goes wrong.
- Boys & GirlsTeaching a Kid to Tell the Truth When It Costs Him SomethingHonesty isn't a speech you give once. It's a price you set, and most parents accidentally set it too high.
- Boys & GirlsHow to Teach a Kid to Lose Without Losing ItFlipped game boards, tears on the sideline, the long car ride home. A practical plan for raising a child who can take a loss and shake the hand.
- Boys & GirlsWhen to Give Your Kid a Phone and What the Rules Should SaySkip the birthday-number debate. Use a ladder of devices, a written contract, and one rule most families forget until it's too late.
- Boys & GirlsTelling Kids the Hard News Without Handing Them Your FearYour eight-year-old heard something on the car radio. What you say in the next ninety seconds matters more than anything you say later.
- Boys & GirlsHelp a Shy Child Make One Friend, Not TenNinety minutes, one kid, your living room floor. The quiet way shy children build a real friendship, and the pushing that backfires.
- Boys & GirlsTwenty Summer Projects Kids Will Actually FinishA treehouse, a lemonade stand, a garden bed, and seventeen more — with the parts the instructions leave out.
- Boys & GirlsRead the Report Card BackwardsThe letter grades are the least useful part of the page. Start with attendance, then conduct, then the comments, and you'll actually know your kid.
- Boys & GirlsStop Rescuing Your Kids From BoredomThe whining is the toll booth, not the destination. What to say, what to stock the house with, and why the first two weeks are so loud.
- Boys & GirlsGive Your Kids Their Saturdays Back, Mud and AllA practical plan for three unsupervised hours a week, what to hand them, what will go wrong, and how to keep your nerve on the porch.
- Boys & GirlsThe Bedtime Routine That Ends the Fourth Trip DownstairsFill the water cup before the story, not after lights out. The rest of the routine follows from that one move.
- Boys & GirlsDiscipline Without Yelling Starts With Saying It OnceThe volume isn't the problem. The problem is the fourth warning, and the kid who already knows you don't mean the first three.</the>
- Boys & GirlsWhat Your Four, Eight and Twelve Year Old Can Actually DoA chore list that matches real capability at each age, plus the part nobody tells you: it's slower, messier, and worth it anyway.
- Boys & GirlsThree Jars and a Stack of OnesHow to run a kid's first allowance so the money actually teaches something, including the part where you let him waste it.
- Boys & GirlsFifty Books Worth Reading Aloud, and How to Finish ThemA nightly read-aloud habit survives on twelve minutes, a bookmark, and a list you don't have to think about. Steal mine.
- Boys & GirlsRaising a Kid Who Looks People in the EyePlease, thank you, eye contact and a handshake are teachable skills, not personality traits. Drill them the way you'd drill free throws.
- Boys & GirlsRaise a Girl Who Is Kind and Still Says NoKindness and backbone are the same virtue pointed in two directions. Here's how to build both before she turns twelve.
- Boys & GirlsRaise a Boy Strong Enough to Be GentleGentleness isn't the opposite of strength in a boy. It's strength with a brake pedal, and you have to teach him to use it.