Mom Advice: What Other Mothers Know
{photo credit} The internet is amazing in how easy it is find strangers speaking on topics that feel uniquely personal and isolated to our own lives. We wonder: how can they be thinking what I just...
View ArticleMom Advice: Connecting with Your Partner
My husband and I, soaked in Puerto Rico's El Yunque Rainforest. As I write this, I am sitting in a Puerto Rican resort room, looking out of the Carribean Sea. It’s the trip of a lifetime, really, won...
View ArticleMom Advice: Collaboration Is Key
A 2011 Mom 2.0 panel including Erin Loechner, Liz Gumbinner and Maggie Mason (@erinloechner @mom101 @maggie) {photo credit to Sarah Hubbell, on Twitter @MainlineMom} This past weekend I was able to...
View ArticleMom Advice: When Is It Okay to Vent?
I don’t know anyone who hasn’t at one time or another felt the need to vent. Whether it’s about home, work, kids, or the significant other, sometimes we need a sounding board for our frustrations. But...
View ArticleMom Advice: What Is Your “Here and Now?”
Years ago when I was seeing a therapist for help with my anxiety and depression, he gave me a rather odd exercise to try at home. Presenting me with a sheet of blue round sticky dots, he told me to...
View ArticleMom Advice: How Do You Keep Your Cool when the Kids Are Home for Summer?
Either your kids are out of school for the summer, or they are about to be. While summer can be a time to relax, visit friends, and make memories, it can also be incredibly challenging. Days blur...
View ArticleMom Advice: Reclaim the Miracle
Photo (c) Stacey Nerdin, credit & link when using This weekend on a flight home from the Type A Parent Conference, I was lucky enough to sit alone in an exit row seat with full access to the...
View ArticleMom Advice: When the Noise Has Nothing To Do with You
Last month as I planned to travel to the Type-A Parent blogging conference, an unexpected mix-up found me without a room at the conference hotel. Based on a friend’s recommendation, and encouraged by...
View ArticleMom Advice: A Little Help
No man is an island. No woman is either, for that matter. We all need something – or someone – to help us along in life. So just for fun, I asked some fellow moms and bloggers to fill in this blank...
View ArticleMom Advice: Making Waves and Going with the Flow
{photo credit} One of the reasons I love competition reality shows (think: American Idol, etc) is watching those moments when someone who has worked so hard for something is given a chance to shine....
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