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The next Survivor Series?
photo credit: m.gifford Just got an e-mail suggesting this idea for a new NBC Survivor show … Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks. Each kid will play two sports and take either music or dance classes. There is no fast food. Each [...]
Interview with a NICU Doctor
Last month I was lucky enough to sit down with my son’s NICU Doctor, Mark Polak, MD, Chief of Neonatology at West Virginia Children’s Hospital in Morgantown, WV. Since having a baby in the NICU, be it three or 30 days and beyond, can stressful, I wanted to ask him who parents will meet, what they can [...]
IRS says breast is best?
photo credit: Lars Plougmann At-bloody-last! Finally some good news for nursing moms. The IRS has agreed that nursing supplies are tax deductible. But if you feed your kids formula, tough luck … read on. Breast pumps and other lactation supplies are now tax deductible as medical expenses, the Internal Revenue Service said on Thursday, February [...]
Hecession? Nope, women’s share of jobs falls
If there was a he-cession, it may have come and gone, reports Christian Science Monitor in a flash or at least in a month of bad economic data. A new book, “Influence: How Women’s Soaring Economic Power Will Transform Our World for the Better, ” by Maddy Dychtwald, cofounder of Age Wave, says the great [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Snow day at home with kids
If only today’s snow day (trying to work at home with kids underfoot) was this peaceful … I made this using the iPad application Doodle Buddy. Fun and free. Read more at Facebook. The kids are making cartoons using the same application.
Ho ho, Mrs. Claus to the rescue
This fun poem from AskPatty.com made me think how many women I know are currently rescuing their families … buying last-minute gifts, organizing meals and visits to relatives, wrapping presents, managing expectations … To all you superhuman She- Santas, ho ho ho .. and thanks to AskPatty: An AskPatty Christmas Tale… ‘Twas the night before [...]
Raising a kid with a conscience
How many people do you think would attend a webinar on “How to Raise A Socially Responsible Child”? Three? 100? 200? Child care company, Bright Horizons Family Solutions, struck a nerve with its webinar on the topic. It attracted 545 parents to the live session plus those who’ve since viewed the online recording. As the [...]
Where do you turn when you feel like a bad parent?
Thanks to our virtual friends … What do you do when you and your kids go off the rails? It happens to me as regularly as the trains that run on those cliched rails, but I never seem to get the schedule ahead of time. Usually about every six months something goes badly wrong and [...]
This is your life? Crazy work-obsessed spouse?
Your crazy life with a work-obsessed spouse and loudmouth children could make your family the next Jon and Kate-style reality TV show stars! Read on … I just got this email, which made me laugh. My comments are in italics. Life-changing new docu-series (is that we call reality TV these days?) that empowers real families [...]
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