Archive for August, 2021
High Five Discipline: Positive Parenting for Happy, Healthy, Well-Behaved Kids
August 24th, 2021
Chapter 4 - Top Model
You’re always live when it comes to your kids watching you. They have front row seats to your conversations and interactions with others. They are privileged to who you really are, behind closed doors. They watch what you watch on TV and learn your opinions from ...
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“Pooling to Paradise” Indie Film, Review by Andrea Santo Felcone
August 19th, 2021
What happens when an uptight Mommy Blogger, a heartbroken Talent Scout, and a struggling Actress all share a ride to Paradise, Nevada? Don’t answer before knowing that the driver of this ride is a self-proclaimed “Shaman”, a hipster, and a recreational drug enthusiast. Well, perhaps surprisingly, not much, at least ...
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BFF or NRF (Not Really Friends)? A Girls Guide to Happy Friendships, By Jessica Speer (Book Excerpt)
August 18th, 2021
Chapter 9: Making New Friends
Sophie’s Story—Always the New Kid
“My mom has a job that makes our family move almost every year. I’ve been to four schools already. Just when I get used to a new town, new school, and new friends, I have to start over.
I get really ...
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Slow… down. and glimpse the future. A mother’s moment by Pamela Francis
August 17th, 2021
Yesterday Jun asked me what occupation I could see him as. I said Makers Lab instructor, like Omar at the Michelle Obama library in Long Beach, CA, where we used to live; He'd be in there making stop-motion animation films and trinkets on the 3D printer..., battery operated robots... and ...
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I Might Actually Be Here to Make Friends: Finding Parent Friends by Julie Vick, author, Babies Don’t Make Small Talk (So Why Should I?) (Book Excerpt)
August 16th, 2021
Excerpted from Babies Don't Make Small Talk (So Why Should I?). Copyright (c) 2021 by Julie Vick. Used with permission of the publisher, The Countryman Press, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
While I’m not the type of person who needs a ton of friends, ...
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Dorm Room Goods for College Students: Product Review by Robin Gorman Newman
August 10th, 2021
My son is prepping for college this fall, and knowing he will ultimately be going away, we are giving advanced thought to his dorm life experience. From sleeping to eating, I want to know he will be in good hands on both ends.....especially with a busy course load and his ...
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Pure Mama Love by Ali Skylar
August 9th, 2021
Sometimes I get triggered.
It pulls me down,
Down into the abyss of darkness.
I work to keep my energy high and clear,
But sometimes my mama heart just aches.
I ache to make it better, to put my arms around my child and make the yucky stuff go away as they birth into adulthood.
I ...
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College and Beyond: Be Open to the New by Dr. Aviva Legatt, author, Get Real and Get In (Book Excerpt)
August 9th, 2021
From Get Real and Get In by Dr. Aviva Legatt. Copyright © 2021 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Publishing Group.
Chapter 11
LESSONS FROM JOSHUA’S STORY
Pursue things just because you’re interested in them. When Joshua was a high school and undergrad student studying languages, he couldn’t ...
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HOW TO TALK WHEN KIDS WON’T LISTEN By Joanna Faber and Julie King: Interview with the Authors by Melissa Couch Salim
August 3rd, 2021
This is such a great book. I love the sample conversation that shows the dos and the don’ts. You start by talking about feelings, which is a BIG topic, especially with toddlers and teens. What are a few top basics that we might remember and practice? It’s stressful when our ...
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Meet Later Mom Kimberly Samson
August 2nd, 2021
AGE: 49
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Happily Married
RESIDENCE: Los Angeles
AGES OF YOUR SONS: 20, 17 and 9
I left a lucrative and prestigious (because at that time, my self worth was my job) position as a money manager with Merrill Lynch to stay home with my children. I had a brief stint back into ...
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