Everyday Should Be Mother’s or Father’s Day by Robin Gorman Newman
May 16th, 2014
I've never been a fan of holidays. I don't quite understand certain occasions that to me feel like a Hallmark moment and a great opportunity for retailers and restaurants to push their wares at sometimes higher prices. One of those occasions is Mother's Day. What is the origin of Mother's Day? I don't ...
Political Correctness to the Nth Degree by Vicky Dal Molin
April 22nd, 2014
Easter weekend just passed us by and it made me so much more aware than usual of the differences between life here in the USA and back home in Australia. While I was listening to family and friends recount how they were spending their extra long weekend (4 days off ...
The Good ‘Ole Fitness Times: By Vicky Dal Molin
April 17th, 2014
I’m late this week with my post. I’m never late on deadlines. It’s Thursday and I’ve literally had to stop everything I’m doing to write my post. If you know me I rarely ever missed meeting a commitment I’ve made. As I’m driving to work this morning I listed out ...
To GPS Track or Not To Track: That is the Question – By Vicky Dal Molin
April 8th, 2014
So I was looking at my usual blog posts today and one came up that has sparked many a debate. It was advertising this wizz bang new watch or children that allows you to GPS track them from your smart phone etc. It’s a cellular-connected GPS tracking device basically. You ...
Setting the Bar to Wonder Woman – By Vicky Dal Molin
April 1st, 2014
Last Friday after what was one of the craziest weeks I have had I arranged to meet some of the August Mum’s (whom I had mentioned in a previous post). Mind you this was after I rescheduled the entire group from Thursday to Friday after a last minute work meeting ...
The Discipline Dilemma – By Vicky Dal Molin
March 25th, 2014
I’m starting to get the impression that most toddlers are the same. Why you may ask? It seems that each week my son gets older I receive the perfect email from a myriad of parenting websites regarding the latest developmental behavior to make itself know. This week…. It’s about discipline and ...
The Beautiful Friendships by Vicky Dal Molin
March 18th, 2014
I have just returned from a day out of town. My son and I jumped in the car Saturday morning and with much excitement (mine really…. he was far from excited at sitting for 2.5 hours in that car seat…. A fact he shared the entire drive) and headed north ...
GUEST BLOG POST: When Parents Make Mistakes by C. Lynn Williams
January 13th, 2014
Parents are invincible...infallible...Human! My husband and I saw Black Nativity last night and I am glad we did! Being a person of color, we usually support movies with African-American actors, directors, film writers during the first weekend the movie airs to support it financially. While I love, Forest Whitaker and Angela ...
All Aboard by Peggy Bogaard-Lapp
January 11th, 2014
Recently, I came across a blog post titled "What is your profession, and what has your work life taught you?" I instantly thought of how ironic it was that I was in a job that had me surrounded by children, because I never, ever, (ever) saw myself working with kids. ...
Out On A Low Note by Peggy Bogaard-Lapp
January 4th, 2014
I made my daughter cry today, on the last day of 2013 when we should be in a more celebratory mood. Instead, I yelled at her for making a mess on the floor that I had just just! vacuumed. She didn't even look at me. She got up, gathered her ...
