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• Books for Boys

  How do you get boys to read? Personally, I'm a big fan of casually leaving books around the house while announcing, "Oh, no. The Boy shouldn't read that! It will warp his brain!" Of course, I make sure The Boy in question is in earshot first.  But if you prefer a more direct approach, there are other options.   Read More... Posted Jul 10 2008, 02:00 PM by Adrienne Martini with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: books, boys, boxing, guys lit wire, werewolves, YA

• Let's Play Guess The Photo

  This is a photo of: a.    Me, at Burning Man b.    Britney Spears after a weekend with the kids c.    Dina Lohan, sans makeup d.    The daughter of an incredibly successful film director e.    Abe Vigoda in high school The answer after the jump! Read More... Posted Jun 04 2008, 02:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: news, Britney Spears, women, photos, dina lohan, boxing, star wars, howard stern, mixed martial arts, ultimate fighting, Brett Singer, ali lohan, george lucas, guess the photo, lyndsay lohan, abe vigoda, kickboxing, amanda lucas, robin quivers

• Weekly Check-Up: Wii Fit Gets Pumped

  In case you haven't heard, Wii Fit is going to be released next month, and it's already a huge hit in Japan, according to CNN. Is it going to replace the exercise video and save our children from obesity? Well, it's being touted as the next big thing in part because it has a sensor-riddled balance board that tracks and analyzes your movements. It will assess your fitness using your Body Mass Index (BMI--a measure I despise, BTW) and then it will run you through some drills to see how you do. After that, you can choose from a bunch of games focusing on strength training, aerobics, balance games and yoga. Wii Fit will also track your progress over time. Now maybe it's just me, but that article sounds more like a press release than reporting. I have... Read More... Posted Apr 17 2008, 08:31 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: health, video games, technology, BMI, fitness, CNN, exercise, boxing, weekly check up, physical activity, wii fit

• Move Over, Little League: It's Cage Fighting Time!

  Score one for America: we have invented yet another way to profit off of people kicking the crap out of each other—and this time we’ve managed to include the whole family! Ultimate Fighting, the sport once relegated to pay-per-view channels because its “no holds barred” violence attracted so much negative publicity, is back in the limelight with a cable television deal and numerous new participants, including some as young as six-years-old. That’s right: thanks to the addition of a few boring rules, such as, "No head butting or eye gouging!," Ultimate Fighting is now suitable for kids. That is, if you happen to be in the school of parents who believe that putting your first grader in a cage and cheering as he delivers “sucker punches, body blows, and swift kicks” to another first grader is a suitable after-school activity. Read More... Posted Mar 30 2008, 11:30 AM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: boxing, ultimate fighting, violence and children, cage fighting, youth sports

• What's My Age Again?

  If you've ever wondered, "does anyone read the boxes and manuals that come with my kids' toys?" the answer may very well be, "no, not even the people who made the product." Submitted for your approval: The Everlast Youth Inflatable Punching Bag is just what you'd think it is: a punching bag that inflates. For a youth (or, as Joe Pesci said in 'My Cousin Vinnie,' yoots.) But what age youth? Ah, there's the rub....   Read More... Posted Mar 07 2008, 02:15 PM by Brett Singer with | with no comments Filed under: products, shopping, toys, boxing, mistakes, everlast, oops, warning labels, punching bags, my cousin vinnie, yoots, joe pesci, age

• Badass Japanese Mom

  Tough talk from a badass 44-year-old Japanese mom: "I wanted to show my children that if you give up, then you're washed up!"   Read More... Posted Mar 01 2008, 12:13 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: parenting philosophies, parenting advice, Japan, parenting styles, boxing, sport parents, athletes, japanese boxer

• Get Your Girl Into Hunting With a Pink Gun.

  In a bid to make shooting more appealing to the girls and ladies, some gun stores are now packing pink guns. They call it, "blaze pink" and the color tickled the pre-teen girls in this article. I'm still looking for a gun that doesn't make me look fat, but pink is okay. Because I've wanted to get into shooting, but you know, the guns are so dull and drab and butch. A splash of color seems just the thing to brighten the cold hunting palette. Why, it's the perfect accessory! Check out the details, dahlings: "The .22-caliber Crickett rifle ($169.99) has a bright pink stock, and the Remington Express Jr. .20 gauge shotgun ($379.99) has a laminated pink-and-black stock emblazoned with the slogan 'Shoot like a girl if you can!'" Aw yeah. Okay, all mocking aside for just a second...   Read More... Posted Sep 26 2007, 08:30 AM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: guns, girls, Pink, boxing, weapons, shooting

• Now, the Mother of All Baby Names Is...

  Autumn Sullivan Corbett Fitzsimmons Jeffries Hart Burns Johnson Willard Dempsey Tunney Schmeling Sharkey Carnera Baer Braddock Louis Charles Walcott Marciano Patterson Johansson Liston Clay Frazier Foreman Brown. You can't get any weirder (or longer) than that. Why? Because little Autumn, if I can call her that for short, has 25 middle names and they're all the names of past boxing champs.  Clearly a page from the "How can we get any weirder?" school of parenting, little Autumn's mum also has 25 middle names. It's well, a family tradition. What, passing on guilt wasn't good enough for them? Autumn's mum was 10, by the way, before she memorized her own name. There. Take that, Metallica!  Posted Jun 26 2007, 06:16 PM by Karen Murphy with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, baby names, weird, boxing