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2012 Baby Trends To Watch For

February 1, 2012

I must admit, I hated the Jimmy Kimmel Halloween candy prank. Yes, it was funny but it was also mean spirited. I know, I’m probably considered a downer mom for that, but seriously…Hey, let’s steal something precious to Johnny! Let’s be completely inconsiderate of his feelings! How funny! I’m sure he won’t take away anything [...]

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Teaching Your Child Character: Grit

January 31, 2012

Oh, if only my Dad were alive to read this. Seriously. If he had one refrain to capture my teenage-hood it would be “finish what you started,” sung in a Metallica pounding anthem way and decidedly not a Broadway play, uplifting way. Finish what you started Finish what you started Finish what you started And [...]

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Puddle Jumpin’

January 30, 2012

It’s been, like, forever since it’s rained here in Northern California. But not any more. It’s puddle jumpin’ time! Oh, to be a toddler again. Did you know that in Iceland,

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Go Ahead, Gossip Girl

January 30, 2012

“If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” That’s what my mama taught me. But she might have been wrong. Sorry Mom, I know you meant well, but according to a new study out but the University of California, Berkeley, gossiping is good for us. Certain types of gossiping. If you let [...]

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Isabella Oliver Maternity

January 27, 2012

Thank you Isabella Oliver for making maternity clothes look like real clothes! Now I wish I were pregnant just so I could wear these. You know the maternity line is good if even a non-preggers woman wants the look. Here are my top many choices:

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Transform, Even Little Things

January 27, 2012

OK, time for a mental health break. A good friend once tried to convince me that the bad things that happen in life are just information. Information. Simple really. Something to allow you to think on and then decide which way to go. Where I get all tight and anxious, she sees the opportunity to [...]

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Spring Looks at Target

January 26, 2012

In the midst of this winter greyness, it’s refreshing to see bright spring dresses at Target. I was just looking at the Jason Wu line at Target – Woot! Yes, Jason Wu, who shot to stardom after dressing the First Lady for the Inaugural Ball has a Target line. I love how a designer is [...]

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Walk To School

January 26, 2012

Do you let your child walk to school? Alone? I don’t but, in my defense, my girl is 4 so she’s not exactly developmentally ready. Not yet anyway. Though I’m not sure I would regardless. I was listening to a preschool director give a talk about her school and she brought up a point that [...]

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Teaching Your Child Character: Zest

January 25, 2012

Character teaching time. Today it’s all about zest! Zeal! Joie de vivre! OK, enough with the (!) exclamation points! Let me back up and say this is all based on a character report card developed by KIPP’s and Riverdale Country School in New York City that I learned about from the New York Times. A [...]

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How Our Body Image Is Ruining Our Girls

January 24, 2012

Note: As much as I’d like this post to be a tangent on a certain television show that exploits children’s self-images for the sake of beauty pageants, I won’t. But that might be coming later down the line…now back to your previously scheduled programming. ********************** I like to think that I’ve got a pretty healthy [...]

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Fashion Up: Get Your Sunglasses On

January 23, 2012

This just in from the fashion people: color, color, color. Have you seen the new neon? It’s everywhere. Pink. Green. Orange. Just SCREAMING AT YOU. Peruse J Crew‘s new arrivals and, if you’re my age, you’ll start singing the Thompson Twins or Spandau Ballet what for all the 80s influence. At least color wise. That [...]

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Your Child’s First Dentist Visit

January 23, 2012

Another milestone has passed – proof that you can’t keep your baby from growing up: the first dental exam. I don’t know if we were early or late with it, but we scheduled our younger daughter’s first visit to the dentist just after her 2nd birthday. We’ve been brushing her teeth (I should really say [...]

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Why Adult Ed Deserves a Second Look

January 20, 2012

When’s the last time you were in school? For some of us, it was recent…maybe we got married and had babies in the middle of our college careers and went back after the kids were in school. For others of us, it’s been a while. We finished up college, then decided to work for a [...]

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