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Understanding Boys is a hub of information curated from around the world to assist parents raise and educate their sons.

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  • The importance of breakfast for your son

    Nutrition by Rebecca Taylor March 17. 2025

    It can feel like a big change, a lot of work, and a bit scary for them to step back into school life.

  • What’s in season?

    Nutrition May 23. 2024

    Fantastic books for reluctant readers

  • Kids in the Kitchen

    Nutrition, Parenting May 13. 2024

    Fantastic books for reluctant readers

  • Diet and nutrition for active boys

    Nutrition, Health, Sport by Peter Whitehead March 27. 2024

    Reading builds vocabulary, which in turn improves comprehension.

  • Lunchbox Lessons

    Nutrition, Parenting

    With the kids back at school for another year, we might be fooled into thinking the pressure is off.  No more holidays filled with cries of ‘I’m bored’ or ‘I’m hungry’ – that’s the school’s problem now! But the return to school means the return of the school lunchbox. A little box that haunts us […]

  • Let’s get our boys into the kitchen – and not just to eat

    Nutrition July 27. 2016

    With 1 in 3 university students unable to boil an egg, how can you make sure your son’s cooking skills keep up with his appetite?

  • It’s official: ravenous teenage boys are ‘normal’

    Nutrition by Chris Hudson May 30. 2016

    Is your family’s daily food bill on par with your mortgage repayments? You must have a teenage boy. But don’t worry, scientists have confirmed that your fridge-clearing adolescent son is ‘perfectly normal’…

  • It’s not just girls. Boys struggle with body image too.

    Nutrition, Mental Health by Rebecca Adams April 27. 2016

    Just as girls do, boys are internalising misguided messages about their bodies every day from seemingly harmless sources.

  • Why you should rethink what your son drinks

    Nutrition April 12. 2016

    Studies have found increased levels of anxiety in children if they’re drinking two or more caffeinated drinks per day – never mind the effects of hidden sugar.

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