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Some say cleanliess is overrated.
When your schedule revolves around a young child, finding time to take care of yourself can be a challenge. With all that feeding, changing, playing and cleaning, something usually has to give. And for many of us, that something is the daily shower.
But if bypassing the bath has you feeling like maybe you should keep your unwashed self at a distance from other adults, relax. You aren’t dirty and smelly. You are trendy!
According to the New York Times, dirty is the new clean. It seems that all kinds of people – not just busy moms – are resisting societal expectations regarding personal hygiene and just saying no to soap and deodorant. And not because they are too busy to bathe. Continue reading »
Shut out of your kid's sports obsession?
As one of those picked-last-for-kickball kids with no affinity for team sports, a longstanding aversion to gym teachers and a son who is a particularly avid baseball fan, I have the eerie feeling that Elana Sigall is describing me when she writes in the October issue of Parents:
I never liked sports growing up. My poor hand-eye coordination makes it a challenge to drive a car, let alone hit a ball with a bat. I don’t like watching sports on TV and I don’t even like sports metaphors. So I never imagined that I would have a kid who was so focused on baseball. It was alienating to watch my son drift farther away from me – toward anyone else he knew who could talk about plays and records and suicide squeezes. I was starting to feel a little desperate, reduced to begging for good-night kisses. I knew I had to find a path to baseball or I was going to lose out on a connection with Julian.
In the piece, Sigall (a writer-mom I now know socially after our sons bonded over their mutual baseball obsession) recounts how she found a way back into 6-year-old Julian’s world by baking him a baseball cake, learning about all his favorite players as she lovingly formed them out of fondant. Somewhere along the way, as she drew pinstripes on Yankees jerseys with a food-writer pen and carefully sculpted mitts and belts and shoes, she became a fan, invested in a game her son adored and able to speak with him about it.
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
- Chinese Proverb
Amy Wilson, author of “When Did I Get Like This?,” has a pretty child. At Hybrid Mom, she writes of her daughter’s breathtaking good looks and her own amazement that she and her husband could produce such a beauty. She is genuinely taken by her daughter’s appearance and admits that she tells her so on a regular basis. But she wonders: “Do I tell my daughter she’s pretty way too often? Are we bad mothers for encouraging our daughters to feel pretty, to seek that out?” Continue reading »
As much as I enjoyed my previous life as an associate director of a small non-profit organization, there was one job function that I dreaded. Despite the fact that I had a lot of support from my husband, business trips totally stressed me out. Sleeping away from home in a strange city far away from my family made me unhappy. Even when work took me to beautiful and exciting locations, I couldn’t enjoy the experience for feeling guilty and worrying about what horrible things might be happening in my absence.
My husband, on the other hand, never seems to suffer the same sort of business trip stress that I did. While I am sure he misses us when he travels, he doesn’t worry about us. And I am quite certain he never feels guilty when his job requires him to leave us for short periods of time. Continue reading »
They deal drugs. They mock their kids. They lose their cool. Today’s TV Moms are a far cry from the idealized television moms of yesteryear.
These days, moms on the small screen are more likely to put their own needs first and — unlike earlier generations of TV moms — they don’t always seem to know what they’re doing. Continue reading »
Having a baby is exhausting. At the end of the day, you and your partner probably can’t wait to crawl into bed…and sleep. Doing anything else between the sheets fades to a distant memory, something fun some other incarnation of you used to enjoy. Sound familiar?
MomLogic offers up some tips to help tired moms hate sex less. This short article contains some of the most depressing love advice I have ever read. As one mom who read it over my shoulder said, “That makes me never want to have sex again. And that’s not right.” Continue reading »
Good news for would-be moms: there is sex after babies. And it’s hot.
That’s the spin Rita Arens of BlogHer puts on a study released by iVillage earlier this month. They interviewed 2,000 married women and came up with some data about who’s doing what, when, where and how they feel about it.
The results were a lot better than conventional wisdom would have us believe.
Lori Garcia 
Joslyn Gray 
Amber Doty 
Julianna Miner 
Monica Bielanko 
Sierra Black 
Meredith Carroll 
Carolyn Castiglia 
Sunny Chanel 
Madeline Holler 
Rebecca Odes 
Danielle Smith 
Danielle Sullivan 
Katherine Stone 
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