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This is a new study demonstrating that boys are different from girls.  The common thought in education is that we can squeeze a boyness into a girlness, but it really isn’t so.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/07/scimonk107.xml

Many fathers do not spend as much time with their sons and daughters as they would like.  This is a place where you can write about and post pictures of the time you spend with your children.   Please post photos from nature walks, the zoo, swimming

Since the late 60s American classrooms have done away with the traditional means of teaching reading using phonics.  Girls have thrived under the new system, while boys have fallen behind.  Is this a conscious plan of the union educational system?

There is a study that just came out which reveals the student drop-out rates in cities across the country.  It is commonly accepted that good reading makes for better students.

If this study is gone into in depth, it more than likely will indicate  that a large proportion of student dropouts are boys.  Boys fall behind in their reading early because the girls more easily pick up the new look-see reading techniques that were adopted so many years ago.  Boys get frustrated and therefore get more rowdy on the playground and are labeled as trouble makers from an early age.

There have been studies showing that both boys and girls do better with phonics teaching,  but the boys do better than the girls with this model.  Of course, the majority of educators are women and they seem to have handily created an easy environment for women. 

As most of you know, women now get the majority of college degrees.  The deck is stacked against the boys from a very early age.

Lobbyists for shared parenting in front of the Snohomish County Courthouse.   This picture was actually taken improperly by the Snohomish Sheriff’s Office.

The person in the blue shirt and blue baseball cap caught languishing against the post is moi.

Washington state is one of the worst states as far as confiscation of funds from the non-custodial parent.  This pic is of the guy who paid child support longer than anyone in the state and wore this t-shirt to a Washington State Child Support Workgroup meeting.

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