Archive for September, 2013
My Halloween Growing Pains by Conlee Ricketts
September 30th, 2013
In thirty days the energy in our house is going to be ALL Halloween! It’s my daughter’s favorite holiday. She spends weeks pondering what she will “be”. In fact our house is usually decorated by mid September. Not this year. I am wondering what’s going on?? When she was younger she ...
9 to 5 by Sharon O’Donnell
September 28th, 2013
Going back to a regular job after 22 years of working out of my house as a freelance writer and PR consultant and doing some part-time writing teaching in the schools -- has been challenging. I enjoy the job as a fourth grade teaching ...
Creepers by Peggy Bogaard-Lapp
September 28th, 2013
I attended an Internet Safety seminar at my child's school this week. I went because my daughter is 10 and I'm afraid that she is being introduced to things through her friends that I am not aware of. And I was totally right - she is. Kids around her are ...
GUEST BLOG POST & GIVEAWAY: Do You Compare Your Insides to Other People’s Outsides? by Katrina Alcorn, author, Maxed Out: American Moms on the Brink
September 27th, 2013
Excerpted from Maxed Out: American Moms on the Brink by Katrina Alcorn. Available from Seal Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group. Copyright 2013. Most of us do, even though we know better. We’re social creatures. It’s natural to make comparisons. But, we inevitably wind up comparing how we feel ...
Adventures in Attachment Parenting: Nature’s Flu Remedy by Allison Silver
September 26th, 2013
It's that time of year again. The weather has a nice chill in the air in the morning, the leaves are beginning to change colors, and before you know it the flu will be coming to visit. I don't know about you but that is one uninvited guest I could ...
“Toon Hero” App Review and T-Shirt Giveaway! – by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
September 25th, 2013
WORLDWIDE DEBUT OF TRIGGER HAPPY’S “TOON HERO APP” CHANGES ANIMATION AND SOCIAL STORYTELLING World Famous Characters From The Jim Henson Company and More Now in the Hands Of iPad Users of All Ages, Making Animation Easy, Social, and Fun Trigger Happy, the creators of platforms that enable social animation on mobile devices, ...
More Fall Finds on DVD and YouTube Channels! – by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
September 25th, 2013
DEAR MOM, LOVE CHER DVD Take a revealing look at one of the most iconic artists of our time, and the mother that raised her, Dear Mom, Love Cher available today on DVD from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Experience the true story of Cher’s life and her close relationship with her family, including ...
Silly Words by Margaret Hart
September 24th, 2013
Growing up, my father was constantly uttering words and phrases that often didn't make sense, but which sounded cool and were usually funny. He liked to make up words and to modify others. His father did the same thing when he was growing up—and with me and my sister, when we would visit our ...
GUEST BLOG POST: Understanding Introverted Children: Parenting Quiet Kids by Christine Fonseca
September 23rd, 2013
Introverts and extroverts – two words that define our temperament. More than just distinguishing a collection of behavioral differences including social connections and communication, they are also terms that refer to specific hardwiring, how different people utilize energy and respond to the word. Extroverts tend to be outgoing and talkative, ...
Out of Control —by Jamie Levine
September 23rd, 2013
I’ve always been a planner. And a control freak. I want to know how things are going to happen and when they’re going to happen; and then I want to make them happen. So when I recently met up with an old friend whom I hadn’t seen since the spring ...
