You may have heard about the ONE Moms campaign that had a group of mom bloggers traveling to Africa to connect mom to mom with women across the world. The campaign is all about raising awareness and ultimately driving action to help women and children in poverty get access to healthcare, education and to raise [...]
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It Only Takes One Mom…
Posted in charity, parenting, politics, tagged Advocacy, Africa, AIDS, Bono, charity, family, Mother, One Moms on October 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Top Ten Parenting Truths of 2010 (learned the hard way)
Posted in family, parenting, Y! Motherboard, tagged best of 2010, family, parenting, top 10 list, yahoo motherboard on December 21, 2010 | 7 Comments »
If your child is a raging maniac for no reason chances are they will wake up in the middle of the night vomiting with 103 degree fever. Always put a bowl next to your child’s bed if they say their stomach hurts before bedtime. The first 6 weeks of school are always terrible. It will [...]
Parental Involvement in Schools – How Thomas Friedman Missed the Point
Posted in education, family, life in nyc, parenting, politics, rant, society, tagged public school, budget cuts, Education, family, new york times, nyc public schools, PTA, Thomas Friedman, education reform, parental involvement on November 28, 2010 | 7 Comments »
This past week Thomas Friedman wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times, U.S.G and P.T.A, about parental involvement making a difference in student achievement. When I first read the article I yawned. Tell me something I don’t know. Kids do better when parents are involved? Of course. Kids do better when parents lay down [...]
Undercover Mother – My Secret Life As A Crime Fighting Mom on the Street
Posted in kids, life in nyc, parenting, rant, society, tagged child abuse, Childcare, family, Home, Nannies, Nanny, Nanny Diaries, parenting, Parents, stay at home mom on August 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Last week when the media world was all aflutter with Steven Slater the Jet Blue flight attendant and his incredibly brash and dramatic exit down the emergency slide, beer in hand and profanities flying, everyone wondered if all civility and decency had finally been lost in air travel. But, this past Monday, according to news [...]
The Sex Talk? There’s No App For That
Posted in books, education, kids, life in nyc, parenting, politics, review, tagged children's books, children's health, family, kids, nyc public schools, parenting, planned parenthood, puberty, sex, sex education, sex talk on April 29, 2010 | 7 Comments »
“Mommy, what happens if you’re pregnant and you don’t want to keep the baby?” This is the question my seven year-old daughter asked me first thing on a Monday morning a few weeks ago. It took me a minute to rouse my brain and get my head around what she was asking while the sun [...]
Can a Television Be a Member of the Family?
Posted in nyc moms post, tagged family, My Fair Lady, old movies, plasma TV, Star Wars, Television, Wii on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the last five years my husband and I have researched TVs. Our steadfast and true 27″ picture tube set sat like a big ol’ lazy uncle on it’s stand and delivered perfectly fine viewing as far as we were concerned. But, we had the itch. The flat screen bigger-than-your-kitchen-table TV itch. One by [...]
Do Dads Need Constant Praise for Doing Their Share?
Posted in life in nyc, tagged family, father's day, gratitude, marc vachon, motherlode blog, new york times, parenting, shared parenting on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In today’s NY Times Motherlode Blog, Marc Vachon wrote a great blog about why this whole idea of constant appreciation can be belittling and demoralizing. It’s an interesting post and really got me thinking about this whole idea of equal parenting. In a perfect world we’d all be in a state of constant gratitude and [...]
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