Browsing Category Toys For Boys

The Pressure Of Peer Parenting

Wen your kids go to school your influence dissolves and their peers’ increases. Witness this story of how Beyblades entered our home as an example of peer parenting.

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Getting Your Car Ready For Summer

Image via Kristopher Volkman [twitter]Now that we are deep into June, I think it’s safe enough to make an appointment to finally remove the snow tires. Oh, you laugh, but it has snowed every month…

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How Do Lego Copycats Stack Up?

If you’ve got a train crazy kid, you can buck up for the real Thomas the Train branded tracks, or you can go for the generic kind. Imaginarium, Ikea, even the toy store at the…

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How Did This Happen?

[twitter]A box arrived from Hasbro yesterday containing some new toys related to the release of Iron Man 3. When I came home after work, my boys were pumped to open it up. “It’s from Iron…

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The Best Toys For Christmas

[twitter]Have a look at the boxes of toys you’ve got lined up for Christmas morning. Wander your playroom and look in the bins at what your kids already have. How many of today’s toys do…

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Kicking it Old Skool

My brother and I used to spend Saturday mornings crowded around an old Fisher Price city set. We’d face the two sides of the street to each other and load them up with plastic army…

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Grandma’s Toybox

Zacharie has a lot of toys at our house, but he likes Nana’s better – I swear. He’s got Thomas trains and Curious George books and puppets and tents and paints and puzzles and …….

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On a bicycle built for a clown

So my son is turning 6 this weekend and the most obvious thing to get him for his birthday is a new bike. Why a new bike you ask? Well maybe because the one he…

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