Archive for June, 2010
Jun
24
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By Kristen Howerton, Orange County Moms Blog
We had a little crisis this week. My 5-year-old son Jafta has been begging to attend a basketball camp for the past three months, and I signed him up for one through our city for preschool-aged kids. All summer, he’s been asking about it and counting down to when it would start. It was supposed to start Monday. On Saturday, I got a call telling me it had been canceled.
I found myself with two options:
1) Completely crush my son and have him mope about it endlessly until the next camp starts IN OCTOBER.
2) Omit information about his age and enroll him in a camp running this week for kids age 6-8.
Which one do you think I did?
Growing up in a family that didn’t really do sports, I...
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Jun
23
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By Emilie Le Beau, McClatchy-Tribune
Celebrity new moms make weight loss look easy. Supermodel Adriana Lima gave birth in November 2009 and then hit the catwalks in early 2010. Ashlee Simpson Wentz had a similar story, she gave birth in November 2008 and soon appeared super slender in “Melrose Place” promos.
A new batch of celebrity moms are experiencing weight loss difficulty and candidly sharing their stories. Kendra Wilkinson Baskett shared her post-baby body frustrations on her reality show “Kendra,” while others like Kortney Kardashian admit needing the help of belly bands.
Compression belly bands are worn immediately after giving birth and are meant to reduce uterine swelling and abdominal bloating caused by water...
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Jun
23
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By Traci Arbios, herdingsquirrels.com
I was talking to a friend of mine today, about kid stuff. Teen stuff. Stuff that we all face and stuff we all hate to admit our kids are up to even though these things happen to everyone. It’s the secret stuff you don’t talk to people about (except maybe when huddled in the closet, drinking wine and talking to your mom … or close girlfriend.)
My friend asked about her 15 year-old daughter, who is going through a tough time, making bad choices … and now she wants to go hang out with a group of friends who are all 18 and heading to the beach for the weekend. What would I do, she asks? Would I let her go, if she was my daughter?
It takes me almost an entire nanosecond to answer: HELL NO.
And...
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Jun
22
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nameberry.com
We’ve seen Disney names fly from the screen onto birth announcements — just think of Ariel after “The Little Mermaid.” But what about those in the Pixar pix, both pre- and post- their merger with Disney? Remy, for one, seems to be catching on despite being a rat. Here are some other Pixar name possibilities — though with not a princess among them:
GIRLS
- ATTA — A Bug’s Life
- CELIA — Monsters, Inc
- COLETTE — Ratatouille
- CORAL — Finding Nemo
- DOLLY — Toy Story
- DORY — Finding Nemo
- DOT — A Bug’s Life
- EDNA — The Incredibles
- ELLIE — Up!
- EVE — Wall-E
- FLO — Cars, Finding...
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Jun
22
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By Kaitlin Stanford, TheBump.com
We’ve got the scoop on everything they won’t tell you about at the hospital.
Sure, all those books and classes have prepped you for the major things: labor and delivery, the unavoidable sleepless nights and, of course, round-the-clock feedings. But what about the projectile vomiting and wandering eyes? Before you go running to the phone to call the pedi, we’ve got the rundown on all those freaky, but totally normal, things about newborns.
1. Cradle cap
What the deal is: There’s no way around it — cradle caps are pretty gross. But they’re also pretty common. How come? Honestly, nobody knows for sure. The good news is any dryness or flakiness will usually disappear...
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Jun
21
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By Aisha Sultan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Martin Pittman’s demanding career as a hotel manager came with a price: long hours, nights on the road away from his family and the growing sense that he was disconnected from his home life. About two years ago, Martin realized his life would have to change if he wanted a meaningful connection with his children. Now he finds himself in the throes of dealing with an adolescent daughter, a much younger middle child and a brand-new son. Like so many working parents, he is trying to strike a balance with work and time spent with each of them individually.
Question: How long has your wife been homeschooling?
Answer: On and off for the last three years. We started homeschooling because of my job. We were frequently...
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Jun
21
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By Priscilla J. Dunstan, McClatchy-Tribune
Some babies need to be held all the time, while others are happy as long as they have a good view of those they love. Still others need to hear Mom’s soft voice to fall asleep at night. By paying careful attention to what soothes your baby, or thinking back to what techniques worked best when your child was a baby, you should be able to identify your child’s dominant sense, which will, in turn, identify their primary communication method.
Tactile babies are the babies who need to be carried all the time. When you try to hand them to someone else, like grandma or the friendly babysitter, or even when you put them down to play on the floor, they cry. They refuse to fall asleep without the soothing arms of Mom or...
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Jun
20
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By Marla Jo Fisher, The Orange County Register
The Regal Entertainment Group is offering a free family movie festival all summer long!
The free movies start at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays each week. Tickets are available first-come, first served limited to the size of the theater. You have to get your tickets on the day of the show, at the theater box office.
All the movies are rated G or PG.
Some of the movies coming up include “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,” “Where the Wild Things Are,” “Tale of Despereaux,” “Paul Blart, Mall Cop,” “Hotel for Dogs,” “Planet 51,” “Surf’s Up” and more.
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Jun
19
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By Aisha Sultan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I had to quit cold turkey.
I had deliberated for months, and it had the hallmarks of an unhealthy habit: hours of wasted time, impulsive poor judgment and my increasing resentment toward it.
My Facebook deactivation was abrupt. I had read yet another news report about the social network’s ever-expanding reach into our personal information and another alarming way in which user privacy could be circumvented. I told myself I would take a monthlong hiatus to sort through my convoluted relationship with Facebook. Within a few years, we’d gone from complete infatuation to “it’s complicated.”
When I informed my husband (who has never understood the allure of online social networks), he asked: “What are...
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Jun
18
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By Earnest Girl, Canada Moms Blog
My great-grandmother, a tiny bird of a woman who was nevertheless made of surviving-the-war strength, was afraid of thunder. Because she did not want her children to shake with fear as she did during thunderstorms, even from the deep sleep of night she took their hands and led them to the windows to watch the lightning slash the sky.
“Watch,” she would tell them. “Isn’t is glorious?” Swallowing the fear in her throat, she smiled for her children so they would grow up braver than she.
Was it her legacy that led me outside during storms? Perhaps. Even as a small child I never felt fear when the dark clouds closed over the sky. I reveled in the electrical air, watched for the next lightning flash...
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