Archive for January, 2013
February 2013 Profile: Later Mom Joan Lunden: Twin Kids Thru Surrogate
January 31st, 2013
NAME: Joan Lunden AGE: 62 MARITAL STATUS: Married RESIDENCE: Greenwich, CT HUSBAND’S NAME: Jeff Konigsberg CHILDREN’S NAMES/AGES: Jamie – 31, Lindsay – 29, Sarah – 25, Kate and Max – 9, Jack and Kimberly – 7 Joan Lunden exemplifies today’s modern working woman. Since hosting ABC’s Good Morning America for nearly two decades, making her the longest ...
Adventures in Attachment Parenting: Nature’s Flu Remedy by Allison Silver
January 31st, 2013
Luckily the flu has not hit the Silver family (yet!). I'm not sure about you, but I am open to any and all measures when it comes to flu prevention. Every mom knows that there is no time to be sick. I have taken herbal supplements off and on for ...
February Giveaway: Twiztt by Joan Lunden 4-Piece Set
January 31st, 2013
To enter, sign up (in the box at the top of this page) for our Baby Bloomer eZine by February 28th at midnight EST, if you don’t currently receive it. All subscribers are eligible. Two lucky winners will be chosen at random the last day of the month and notified ...
Earth Aware Children’s Books – Review by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
January 30th, 2013
Earth Aware Editions books is committed to broadening awareness and understanding the unique challenges of our time through powerful and provocative publications. From climate change and conservation to the accelerating loss of diversity in our planet's species and cultures, the continued erosion of our biosphere and ethnosphere cannot be ignored. These ...
I’m Tired By: Catrina Chatelain
January 29th, 2013
I’m tired. I am really tired. I know, I know, you don’t want to hear it. Keep it to myself, right? Everybody has their stuff, and it’s just as big and important as my stuff, so nobody wants to hear anybody whining about stuff. But geez, I am exhausted! ...
Seedlings: When the Bough Breaks – By Amy Wall Lerman
January 28th, 2013
Now, if you’ll indulge me for a moment, I just need to get this off my chest: Life since Super-Storm Sandy has been rough. I lost the back of my house thanks to a very large and very old oak tree. It took out the deck, the patio door, part of ...
Powers of Persuasion—by Jamie Levine
January 28th, 2013
Last year, after her initial enthusiasm for the activity waned, Jayda dropped out of her gymnastics class. The fact that I’d paid in full for the entire semester and, consequently, was going to be out several hundreds of dollars didn’t sway Jayda—she simply refused to go back. But fortunately, after ...
My Little Bull In a China Shop, Taking After Her Daddy – By Jean Marie Keenan-Johnston
January 27th, 2013
"Bull in a china shop" - that's the nickname I gave my husband when it became apparent just how infrequently he realized his own strength! Hubby is a linebacker-looking kind of guy...six-foot-four inches tall, broad shoulders...definitely not the type of guy anyone would choose to mess with in a dark alley one ...
Raising Sensitive Boys by Maureen Healy
January 27th, 2013
Does your son cry often? Or pull out all the tags from his shirts? Is he a picky eater? Does he prefer quiet play? Has he ever been labeled as “shy” or “overly sensitive” by someone close to him? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may ...
Baby, Why Aren’t You Talking Yet? by Heather Bowles
January 26th, 2013
When I was a little girl, my family, and my mother in particular, would brag to anyone who would listen to them for longer than five minutes about how incredibly smart I was. Nearly forty years later, my ears are still left ringing with the repetitive accolades of how I ...
