Raising Real Men

This series of articles is in response to the question, “What curriculum do you use?” which we’re freqently asked. Read the first in the series here. Preschool is a time when you can really hardly fail. You have years and years and years to make up for what you don’t teach. Unfortunately, though, we find it…
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Folks ask us all the time, “So, what curriculum do you use?” Let me begin to answer by telling you a story. Many years ago, one of my dear friends asked me the same thing as she began homeschooling her children. I was happy to tell her because I believed I’d found the very best…
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Guest post by parenting columnist and psychologist John Rosemond     A mother asks why I don’t believe in ADHD. Her son has ADHD. After administering a battery of tests, a psychologist said so. According to the mother, the psychologist also said the boy probably inherited the disorder—a biochemical imbalance—from his father, who admitted to having…
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Several years ago, a friend of ours decided to eliminate gender stereotypes from her children’s upbringing. When her daughter was born, Mom bought trucks and construction toys for the child to play with. When a son came along, she bought him a baby doll. As it turned out, her kids weren’t buying it—neither one of…
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The longer we homeschool, the more we realize that homeschooling isn’t merely about spelling, math and history. It’s really about Life, the Universe and Everything, but not quite the way Douglas Adams meant it!

We cherish children’s books in our family. When you have eight children, the books that you’ve read to every single child enter the family lore, with phrases from them bringing a smile years later. “Good night to the old lady whispering ‘Hush!’”

The problem of books and boys has been in the news lately.  It’s a known fact that boys generally read less than girls and seem to enjoy it less when they do read.  Teachers and librarians have worried about it for years, and some of their suggestions border on desperation.  Should we embrace comic books and…
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Hello to all our first-time guests at Raising Real Men, our blog dedicated to training up sons who stand strong to fulfill God’s calling in their lives!  We had a lot of submissions for this week’s Carnival, and due to a family issue at the last moment, we are a few hours late getting the…
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Several of my boys are constantly drawing, so when Timberdoodle, one of our favorite suppliers, asked us if we’d like to review a new art curriculum, I thought, “Great!”and evidently, my boys thought so, too. When Simply Draw with Bob Parsons arrived at our house, there was great excitement, but I wouldn’t let them open…
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The always thought-provoking Douglas Wilson (author of Future Men) has an interesting post on getting boys engaged with music, particularly to worship God but in other aspects as well. His first point? 1. It is more important that your boys grow up masculine than that they grow up musical. You don’t necessarily have to choose,…
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