Issue 9: Letter from the Editor
From Kirstie
Issue 9 is not the issue I had planned at the beginning of 2020!
But that issue can wait and this one, despite its super quick turnaround, is a real cracker.
We have some brilliant responses to our call out for your lives in lockdown, which I've really enjoyed seeing, and am so glad to share with you!
And since the summer holidays (remember those?) are on the horizon, the rest of the issue is all about play! There are fun making activities, brilliant articles on diversifying your play and the importance of unstructured time.
Plus we've been reassured by the advice from teachers about home school and got some tips on easing anxieties around school return for when that finally happens.
Selected articles are online now, but if you’d like to read everything - it’s all available as a download in our shop
With love to you and your families from me and mine.
Kirstie x
Issue 30 is all about family relationships - from navigating grandparenting styles to exploring sibling bonds. You’ll hear from people raising boys in all types of family, with positive advice and ideas for navigating family life through good times and hard.
WHAT’S INSIDE?
Generational parenting styles
Parenting through separation
Blending families
PLUS New Sonny kids' pages
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Join Sonny on a magical adventure as he opens a box of wonders and sets out to bring some magic back home. Packed with puzzles, word searches, number puzzles and all your child’s favourites from the Sonshine kids’ pages.
Perfect if you find your copy of Sonshine is always grabbed first by the kids to get to the fun pages, this action-packed adventure is great to dip in and out of, or to work all your way through all the puzzles and crack the final code.
What’s inside?
Sonny’s puzzling adventure to read and solve
Word searches
Sudoku
Colouring
Personality quizzes
Mazes
Search and Find
Join Sonny on a magical adventure as he opens a box of wonders and sets out to bring some magic back home. Packed with puzzles, word searches, number puzzles and all your child’s favourites from the Sonshine kids’ pages.
Perfect if you find your copy of Sonshine is always grabbed first by the kids to get to the fun pages, this action-packed adventure is great to dip in and out of, or to work all your way through all the puzzles and crack the final code.
What’s inside?
Sonny’s puzzling adventure to read and solve
Word searches
Sudoku
Colouring
Personality quizzes
Mazes
Search and Find
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Issue 29 is all about looking at good relationships wherever they appear and what great models there are for our sons.
We wonder about the boom in romance books, and what that looks like for boys?
What are our children learning about all the types of love and how can we support them?
WHAT’S INSIDE?
Rules and Tools for Romance
In praise of Chicklit
LittleLouCooks family recipes
PLUS Friendship Fun kids' pages
Issue 28 is all about boys and bodies: from the power of movement for regulating all our nervous systems, to the impact of body image pressures on young men today and ultimately learning that it’s not about how you look, it’s how you feel.
WHAT’S INSIDE?
Is Muscle Mania Making our Boys Unhappy?
Keeping Kids’ Tempers on the Sports Pitch
Bodies: Strong Not Perfect
PLUS Summer Fun kids' pages, quizzes, colouring and puzzles
Ever heard that boys just don’t like reading? Or that books for boys need to be different to books for girls?
Well, issue 27 is all about books and boys - where we see those gender divides and whenever they might come from.
From whether we should chuck our outdated classics to how to bring out the joy of reading, as always, this issue is packed with positive and non-judgemental articles and piles of recommendations!
WHAT’S INSIDE?
How to raise readers
What are boys really reading?
Masculinity & Moomins
PLUS Fun kids' pages, family recipes, and more
Issue 31 is all about how we raise our boys to be good men...
We wonder about what we are teaching our boys about what being a man is? Who are some top role models? How do we manage the influence of the influencer?
What IS healthy masculinity?
WHAT'S INSIDE?
GYM BRO CULTURE - AND WHEN TO WORRY
WHAT MAKES A GOOD MAN?
BOYS' EMOTIONAL WELLBEING
PLUS NEW SONNY KIDS' PAGES