Shannon's Tales of Motherhood

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Weekend at the Movies with Jolly Mom {Giveaway}

One Jolly Mom reader will win Thomas & the Runaway Kite and Barney's Egg-cellent Adventure!
This giveaway will end on March 21st, 2010 at 11:59 PM EST.
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Friday, March 19, 2010

Pampers Cruisers with Dry Max Review and Giveaway!

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A 3Boys and a Dog reader will win a Liz Lange designer diaper clutch and a redeemable coupon for a free week’s supply of diapers of the all-new Pampers Cruisers with Dry Max. The clutch retails for $50 and is 100% polyester with genuine leather trim!

CONTEST ENDS: March 25th at 12 midnight CST

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Raising Boys Vs. Girls~My Favorite Better Parenting article!

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Raising boys or raising girls: which is harder? Is it different? Aside from the obvious, how fundamentally different are boys and girls? How does that affect our parenting?

These are truly loaded, complex questions without easy answers. On one hand, most of us know that a lot of our ideas about gender are culturally constructed. We learn about gender from movies and TV, from advertising, from the ideas of our friends and families. We learn about gender from the toys that are marketed for boys and for girls and from the clothes that are available in the department stores. Someone has apparently decided, for instance, that girls like and should have pink, and that boys like and should have blue.

Most of us also suspect, however, that there are some real differences between boys and girls that go beyond cultural influences. What are those differences, and how do they shape our roles as parents?

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