Motherhood Later Giveaway: AMBI cooling device


To enter to win, sign up (in the box at the top of this page) for our Baby Bloomer newsletter, if you don’t currently receive it.  Two lucky subscribers will be chosen and notified via email. AMBI, powered by Blu●TEC™ (“AMBI”), the first-ever portable, personal cooling device, works like an ...

GUEST BLOG POST: Guarding Against Perfectionism in Our Children by Jill Rigby


Perfectionism hinders success. Perseverance guarantees it (win or lose). We’ve all witnessed a child who makes a first attempt at a new skill only to fail. He wails in disbelief that he couldn’t accomplish the task perfectly, pushes aside the project, and walks away. Hopefully, we have also witnessed the child ...

Mom is Trying to Kill Us with Organic Food by Julie Wheaton & Patrece Powers (Contributing Bloggers)


 I (Julie) occasionally pretend to be a food fairy by sneaking healthy food into my kids’ meals. Industrial food processing has caused the path of food to fork in two directions: there’s food for health and food for profit. As such, modern food fairies face enormous competition from food-for-profit operations ...

GUEST BLOG POST: Carried in our Hearts by Jane Aronson (Book Excerpt)


 Excerpted from CARRIED IN OUR HEARTS: The Gift of Adoption; Inspiring Stories of Families Created Across Continents by Dr. Jane Aronson with the permission of Tarcher/Penguin. Copyright Jane Aronson 2013.   I always wanted to adopt a child. When I was very young, I saw those Save the Children advertisements on ...

April 2013 Profile: Jo Ann Grossman


NAME:  Jo Ann Grossman AGE:  67 RELATIONSHIP STATUS:  Married RESIDENCE:  New York City DAUGHTER’S NAME/AGE: Emily Morden, 24 17 years ago I co-founded, along with my husband, Stu Morden, Kids ‘N Comedy. I continue to direct and produce Kids ‘N Comedy at Gotham Comedy Club in NYC, a performance series where youngsters, ages 10-18, perfect their own written stand-up ...