Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category
Mid Life No Crisis by Lisa Levine (Book Excerpt)
May 24th, 2021
Other People and Their Opinions Remember trying desperately to fit in at high school? Spending hours pondering whether or not you were cool? Or funny? Or smart? Or pretty? Back then, we were caught up trying to evolve in a fishbowl full of judgy peers and social norms. Yet even now, ...
Mommin’ It by Harriet Shearsmith (Book Excerpt)
May 20th, 2021
Reprinted with permission from Mommin’ It by Harriet Shearsmith, Kyle Books 2021 Let’s talk chores When I first became a mum, I never really thought of chores as something that was a controversial or debatable topic. Your kids live in the house, they will one day have to live alone – be ...
When (Black) boys graduate by Pamela Francis
May 14th, 2021
You might assume that graduating is every student's no-duh conclusion after 12 years of early rises, sketchy breakfasts, hasty hygiene and barely escaped tidal waves of tardies. But as a classroom teacher, an educator for over twenty years, a student, myself, for 18 cumulative years, and now as a mom, ...
How to Make Moving Less Stressful For Your Kids
May 10th, 2021
Moving tends to be a stressful process for everyone involved. But as overwhelming as it might feel, you can be certain it’s just as bad for your kids, if not even worse. They have to leave their familiar environment and potentially friends behind, which can cause them a lot of ...
TITANIQUE: A New Day Has Come – Show Review by Ali Skylar
May 4th, 2021
You’ve got to have a ton of guts to go out and impersonate the one-of-a-kind Celine Dion. Let alone use a slew of her songs as the musical score for a theatrical production. Well, that’s exactly what Tony Award-winning producer Eva Price (Jagged Little Pill, Oklahoma!) did with TITANIQUE, “the irresistibly ...
Brotherly Bonding Despite an Age Gap by Sharon O’Donnell
May 3rd, 2021
[caption id="attachment_30970" align="alignleft" width="225"] (David, 26; Jason, 20; and Bill, 29 at a recent Carolina Hurricanes hockey game.)[/caption] I remember when I was pregnant with my third son, knowing he would be nine years younger than my oldest son and six years younger than my middle son, and I worried about ...
13 THINGS STRONG KIDS DO by Amy Morin (Book Excerpt)
April 29th, 2021
Chapter 2: They Empower Themselves Jayden woke up on his last day of summer vacation wishing he could make his break last just a little longer. Tomorrow was his first day of junior high, and he was dreading it. Not too long ago, he actually liked school. He got good grades and ...
Wanna Be a Mompreneur? Consider Investing in a Pet Franchise
April 26th, 2021
Franchising is a great way to step into the world of business ownership. Owning a franchise business gives you all the perks of being your own boss with added support from the franchise itself. Pet franchises are not often the first type of business to come to mind, however, they ...
The Working Mom Blueprint by Whitney Casares, MD, MPH, FAAP (Book Excerpt)
April 26th, 2021
Chapter 12 My Message to Working Moms Each time I write a blog post, a chapter— even a social media comment— I look back on it carefully, to make sure that it is honest. It’s my tendency, just like it’s the tendency of almost everyone else I know, to shine things on ...
A Possible Amazing Game Changer? By Ali Skylar
April 25th, 2021
A couple of months ago I was introduced to Dr. David Brownstein as part of a series about Iodine on Gaia TV. It blew my mind how this one element can be a total game changer for our well-being and health. And that most of us are deficient in it and ...
