Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Cheaper Shipping Rates Ehh!

The great news for Boys To Men Gifts customers in Canada is that we now have new cheaper shipping rates. The new flat rate shipping is 30% cheaper than before, so Vancouver customers will now pay only $5.95 and Canada wide shipping is only $9.99 no matter what size of parcel.

View the shipping page here.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Tweenriffic Male Stars

Grooming Hollywood Preteens To Appeal to Young Boys


With the tween market pumping about $50 billion into the U.S. economy annually, entertainment execs are constantly scouting out new actors and entertainers that have the potential to become national and international superstars.

Disney has found one recently that is all but guaranteed to be a huge star, as they’re grooming Kelly Blatz to be a big tween celebrity. One thing unique about Blatz is that Disney looks to target him at the tween male market, which has been largely underserved. To that end, they’ve placed him in a new series named “Aaron Stone.”

Tween females will definitely gravitate toward the young actor, so he could become a huge star if he can draw in both demographics.

Source:Trendhunter, Forbes

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Bacon Protest

This is a clip from 'House Swap" TV Show, someone please give the boy his bacon back.....


Friday, April 17, 2009

PMS - BuddySaving relationships, one month at a time!

This made me laugh....content off their website.


"PMSBuddy.com is a free service created with a single goal in mind: to keep you aware of when your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister, daughter, or any other women in your life are closing in on "that time of the month" - when things can get intense for what may seem to be no reason at all.

For women, this is a great way to give people in your life a heads-up of when you might be feeling a bit irritable without having an awkward conversation.

What's more, we will not only keep you informed, but will give you some free advice on what to do about it. With PMSBuddy.com, there is no reason to ever be blindsided by PMS again.

PMSBuddy.com - Saving relationships, one month at a time!

Too funny!!!

Thursday, April 16, 2009

The Manty hose (the male panty hose)




Ladies and gentlemen are we ready for the Mantyhose????

It worked for guys in the 16th century is it ready for a comeback in the 21st Century?

e-mancipate.net is the site that claims "that pantyhose 'improve performance in sports,' which should help these stylish dandies sprint away from angry mobs who are not yet ready for the mantyhose movement."

Would your guy wear the manty hose should we start stocking them? let us know what you think.

Source: e-mancipate.net

Thursday, April 9, 2009

New Research Shows Boys Learn More From Men....

I must admit that I love to research so I have decided to change the format of our blog and bring you our readers some interesting articles about......yes you guessed it boys and men. I would love for this to be interactive so please feel free to comment and suggest any interesting articles that you also have come across.

I have found a great article by the Hoover Institute at Stanford University that has done some research (published in 2006)that has shown that boys learn more from male teachers.


STANFORD--A teacher’s gender has large effects on student test performance, and students’ engagement with academic material, reports a new study published in the fall issue of Education Next.

“Learning from a teacher of the opposite gender has a detrimental effect on students’ academic progress. My best estimate is that it lowers test scores for both boys and girls by approximately 4 percent of a standard deviation and has even larger effects on various measures of student engagement,” said the study’s author, Thomas S. Dee, an economist at Swarthmore College

For example, in science, social studies, and English, Dee found that the overall effect of having a female teacher instead of a male raises the achievement of girls by 4 percent of a standard deviation and lowers the achievement of boys by roughly the same amount.

The adverse gender effects have an impact on both boys and girls but fall more heavily on boys in middle school simply because most middle-school teachers are female. According to a U.S. Department of Education survey, more than 90 percent of middle-school reading teachers are female, as are more than 70 percent of the math teachers and nearly 70 percent of the science teachers.

If half of the English teachers insixth, seventh, andeighth grades were male and their effects on learning were additive, said Dee, the gender achievement gap in reading between boys and girls would fall by approximately a third by the end of middle school.

For his research, Dee used the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS), which contains data on a nationally representative sample of nearly 25,000eighth graders from 1988. In addition to examining the effect of teacher gender on students’ test score performance, Dee examined teacher perceptions of a student’s performance and student perceptions of the subject taught by a particular teacher. Dee utilized questionnaires that the NELS administered to teachers from two academic subjects for each sample student, which solicited a variety of information about teachers’ background, including gender, and included several questions about how teachers viewed the behavior and performance of the specific students in the study.

When a class is headed by a woman teacher, Dee found that boys are more likely to be seen as disruptive, whereas girls are less likely to be seen as either disruptive or inattentive. When taught by a man, girls were more likely to report that they did not look forward to a subject, that it was not useful for their future, or that they were afraid to ask questions. Notably, he found this dynamic is strongest in science, where student reports indicate that women science teachers are far more effective in promoting girls’ engagement with the subject.

“Simply put, girls have better educational outcomes when taught by women and boys are better off when taught by men,” said Dee.

Hoover Institute