Today is the day! You asked for a place to talk about food and fitness for our boys and here it is!
My boys are still young – 6 1/2, 4 1/2, and 11 months old – but it didn’t take long for me to realize that boys need lots of fuel and lots of activity! I’m trying to prepare myself for the grocery bills when I have three teenage boys in the house…yikes!
We are thrilled to introduce to you Raising Hearty Boys {RHB for short}, the newest site from Raising Boys Media! The site was born from questions we heard moms asking often over on our M.O.B. Society {Mothers of Boys} Facebook page:
What do I with all his energy?!
He is ALWAYS hungry – what should I be feeding him?
What sport would be the best for my son?
We’ll do our best to equip you boy moms and dads by answering these questions and more!
Whether you’re raising one boy or ten boys {God bless you!}, we hope this site will bless you in a few ways:
- Recipes – Our team will sharing boy-tested, parent-approved recipes for every meal of the day, snacks and desserts included. We’ll also be covering various allergen-free recipes with some talented guest posters. There will even be a chance for you to share your boys’ favorite recipes on the last Tuesday of each month!
- Nutrition – I have picky eaters so I know how hard it is to get boys to eat healthy when all they want is hot dogs and chicken nuggets! We’ll be covering ways to give your boys the nutrients they need, sports nutrition, and making more real food a priority in your kitchen.
- Fitness – We want to encourage you to take all that energy your boys are currently using to bounce off the walls and channel it for good! Building strong, healthy bodies for our boys doesn’t have to be complicated and it can be a family affair. We’ll be sharing indoor and outdoor activities to do with boys of all ages.
- Sports – Organized sports activities abound, but which one is best for your boy? How do they get involved? What are the costs and time commitments? We hope to answer these questions for a wide variety of sports with some wonderful guest posts each month. I’m loving the ones we have lined up for you already!
- Reviews & Giveaways – Look for reviews of our favorite cookbooks, food blogs, fitness & sports equipment, and more!
So much fun to be had here, right?!
A few housekeeping notes on this exciting launch day:
*You can get all of the Raising Hearty Boys goodness sent to your inbox for FREE so you never miss a post! Just sign up here!
*In our first few weeks, you may land on a page here that says “Coming soon!” No worries! Those pages will fill up as more and more posts go live on the site! Pretty soon they will be full of everything you’re looking forward to at RHB!
*I am over-the-moon excited about the fantastic writing team gathered here! Take a minute to go see who you’ll be hearing from on a regular basis and hop over to their personal blogs to say hi when you get a chance!
Since we’re celebrating, let’s start this thing off right with a little giveaway from some of our very own RHB writers!
What’s up for grabs…
- Saving Savvy: Smart and Easy Ways to Cut Your Spending in Half and Raise Your Standard of Living…and Giving! by Kelly Hancock
- ABCs of Super Foods by Calie Shackleford
- Missions Moments 2: 52 Easy-to-Use Missional Messages and Activities for Today’s Family
by Mitzi Eaker
You will LOVE these books! Three winners will be chosen – one for each book! Just enter below!
We’re so glad you’re here with us! Won’t you spread the word to your boy-raising friends and come on back tomorrow for our first recipe post from Kristin?!
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A Co-Founder and Creator of Raising Boys Media, Erin is at Home with the Boys in Nebraska after five years as an elementary music teacher. Her Savior, her doctor husband, and her three lively boys are the loves of her life – and the inspiration for her blog! Her passion is to encourage families to grow closer to God and closer together! She loves to run, cook, bake, craft, & read as well, so there’s always a little of that thrown in on the blog from time to time! And through it all, you’ll probably find her breaking out in random song.
Can’t wait to see what will come!
I’m an Aussie mum of two boys, oldest about to turn 2, and I have no idea what to do with all his energy! Very thankful for this site!
I’m excited about everything! I love the boy-specific nutrition advice that will be coming!
I’m looking forward to healthy recipes that kids will actually eat!
Im looking forward to suggestions for corralling my 5 and 3 year olds’ endless energy. With a newborn boy in the house, I’m lacking sleep and fresh ideas to keep them entertained.
How to spend that energy when stuck on the house? And recipes that might keep them full for at least an hour
Looking forward to this. I have four boys aged 7 and under. I am DREADING the grocery bills in 10 years!
Excited to see how to keep my son active and filled with nutritious food, considering I can’t keep in him enough now!
I’m a mom to 3 boys, my oldest is soon to be 11. I’m very excited about this new site!
I am so excited about this launch!!! I have 3 boys – 12, 8, and 2, who are definitely going to benefit from what I learn here!
Looking forward to the fitness part – use my very dynamic son’s energy up.
We are about to have three boys, ages 3, 2 and due March 2! Any advice on feeding and not going to the poor house to do so, will be AMAZING!
Super excited to see where this will go! I’m a mom of 4 boys with a passion for nutrition as well.
I’m really excited about tips for how to feed my boys and use their energy in a positive way!
I’m always running out of ideas for healthy snacks and meals, I’m looking forward to learning some new ones that my little one will actually eat!
I am so excited to see the recipes… cooking for my picky boy eaters is becoming quite the challenge!
Mom of 4yo & 2yo boys, with a new baby boy coming in April. My bigger boys are starting to bounce off the walls… What perfect timing!
Looking forward to seeing some great recipe suggestions!
Love this!! Your other site rocks and I know this one will also! I have one girl and one boy…..i never thought how much harder it would be for me to have a boy! They are so much fun but lots of work! (at least as little ones lol)
how fun! i’m a mom of two boys, soon to adopt two more (!!!) — always looking for ideas for the care and feeding of VERY energetic boys!
I’m looking forward to collecting future ideas for my son who is only six months right now. I know it won’t be long though before he’s running around with tons of energy to burn and a seemingly insatiable appetite!
I am looking forward to the food and recipe suggestions. My boys are only (almost) 5 and 3, but they sure can put away the food!
I have 5 boys and am so looking forward to this site! I’d love ideas on how to get out their energy during cold, long, snowy winters! (when it’s too cold to go outside!)
everything
Looks like this will be a great site. Looking forward to reading more!
I am SO excited about this website! I’m mostly interested in the fitness/exercise and recipes for my always-hungry-with-tons-of-energy boy. =) Thanks so much for all that you do.
Looking forward to sharing ideas with other MOB’s!
I have 3 boys as well (6, 3, and 1) and have found recently that they are bottomless pits! I need FUEL ideas! Can’t wait to see more!
Everything! This is a great idea!
I am looking forward to finding things to fill them up that are healthy, filling, and frugal! There just has to be something to satisfy their bottomless pits!
I’m looking forward to creative solutions for winter energy when it’s too cold to be outside and good tips on how to encourage healthy, whole food eating in my sons.
I am looking forward to some ideas for healthy foods for my picky eaters.
Yay! I am looking forward to all the fun lists I know you have in store for us! Thank you!
I can’t wait for ideas for my 2 boys as well as nutritional ideas. Also, both my boys have surgeries coming up, ages 4 and 16 months, any ideas for things to do in the hospital, especially for the little one. The older one won’t be able to use his hands, he’s have surgery on both his thumbs and the little one is having his palate repaired.
Looking forward to it all!
Very excited about this site!!! I can’t wait to hear new ways to keep them busy and are technology free.
I have 3 boys, 4 and twin 2 year olds, and 1 girl 5 months. Looking forward to some more meal ideas and great ways to spend their amazing energy!
How much fun! I have three boys of my own (and a baby girl) and since I’m passionate about nutrition and education, I’m excited to read your new blog! We do a lot of physical exercise over here because it wakes up their young brains and primes them for learning… Well, and getting that energy out preserves my sanity too!
Anything really
. I’m expecting my first boy this March and I’m very excited!
Looking forward to reading more! I’m a mom of four very active boys!
Yay! Can’t wait for some ideas on how to fill my boys up!
This all sounds wonderful! I have 3 very energetic and picky boys! Looking forward to healthy recipes and ideas for their positive use of the abundant energy!
This looks like a great resource! As a mom of two boys, I’m sure you have plenty of tips to keep them eating healthy and staying active!
Looking forward to reading more here!
this looks like fun! cant wait for some recipes to fill up my always starving boy, they are only 2 and 5??
I am brand new here today, but am so excited your page was shared with me! Mom of two boys (so far) 3 1/2 and 10 months.
With two young boys, I’ll be curious to see what you post.
I have three growing boys and I am always in need of something to feed them! Can’t wait to see more.
I need all the ideas I can get for raising my boy!
I’m always looking for new healthy recipes!
Definitely looking forward to the recipes!!!
Sounds great!!
…you had me with “If dinner’s not done by noon, it’s not gonna happen.”!!! Just went to bat for my son with a school issue today – kindly, respectfully, knowing the school wants the best for my son. Reading this, I’m reminded that he also needs physical activity, and I need more ideas! And, 4-7:00 really is a rough time of the day. Looking for good ideas, from women who love & serve our Mighty God. Thanks ladies <3
Looking forward to tips to help with my incredibly picky eaters; 4 out of my 5 boys.
I have a son, almost 2 and he is free spirited boy, so I am looking forward to this!
I look forward to raising a healthy little boy with help from you all :.)
Looking forward to great ideas to feed my forever hungry boys healthy snacks and such.
So excited about this. I have three boys 1,3, and6 and looking for any help I can get.
I have 5 kiddos and 3 of which are very active boys. We homeschool and are bouncing off the walls this winter. Looking forward to this.
I am looking forward to the recipes and the nutrition. My son is so packed full of energy that I have him in gymnastics but I find that sometimes those good fuel snacks burn off too fast so I am always looking for new foods to try.
I’m so excited about the site! I have a 5 year old boy, and teach preschool, so I know I’ll be checking in here often!
I am excited about this new blog!
I have two step-sons (almost 4 and almost 3) and am very pregnant with our third son. I am simply amazed at the amount of food they consume!!! This has been the resounding thought in my head for the last few weeks, along with the thought of not knowing how I will feed 3 boys and my husband in about ten years!
I never thought that boys would be such a joy and treasure to raise, but I am completely amazed that God chose to bless me with 3 sons!! Loving my life (and would love to read more on raising godly healthy boys)!
Congrats on a fun new website! These books look awesome!
The recipes and nutrition! I always have such a hard time with this… they can’t POSSIBLY eat that much, can they???? They’re only 10, 5, and 2!!!
I am looking forward to all of the yummy boy loving recipes.
I have 2 boys (5 & 3) that have opposite taste. Can’t wait to see some examples of what actually works!
I am looking forward to this new site. I have a 5 year old and a 2 year old and I am already worrying about how we are going to feed our boys when they are teenagers!
Very excited about this website
More info on raising boys
I’m looking forward to any information.
I am so excited for this website!!! New and good recipes for my son and husband!!! And new ideas to keep my son active during the day!!!
I am excited for what’s to come!
Sooo much energy!!! I don’t know what to do with them half the time!!!
My husband is currently overseas with the Army. I make hearty meals for my family every day. It gets hard for me while my husband is gone though, because I lose my appetite and I know that my kids need to eat good. I want hearty meals for them ready at all time, even if I’m not in the mood to eat
I have 3 boys and a girl from 19 months-8 yrs old so I am SUPER pumped for this blog!!! My boys are VERY athletic and LOVE to eat!
Looking forward to recipe and activity ideas
Hi, I have been following you on Facebook… I have 2 boys, thanks for sharing your ideas!