If there’s one mystery all parents would love to solve, it’s how to maintain a sense of balance in our lives. With the duties of managing a household, handling conflicting schedules, and keeping track of all the minute details of each family member’s life, we ourselves often take a back seat.
So tell us how you keep your own sense of self intact while fulfilling your job as a parent. Whether it’s gym time or bike rides, scrapbooking or photography, or even writing on your blog, we want to know what you do when you take time for yourself and how it refreshes you. And if you’re having trouble finding that balance, tell us what needs to change in your life for it to happen.
Here’s how to participate*:
Write a post on your blog about you maintain balance in your life - or what you’re doing to find that balance. Post anytime this weekend - today, January 23 through Sunday, January 25 and include links to:
1) http://balancedliving.gather.com
2) http://blog.parentbloggers.com
Also, please include the following blurb: “This post was written for Parent Bloggers Network as part of a sweepstakes sponsored by BOCA.”
Make sure to send your blog post link to parentbloggers@gmail.com and we’ll round them up right here - so give your post a creative title!
What can you win?
We’ve got three $100 Spafinder.com gift cards to award at random! Now there’s a great way to take some time for yourself.
Plus, we’ve got BOCA coupons for the first 25 participants to email us links to their posts (starting 12:01am EST on Friday, January 23)!
But that’s not all. Visit BOCA’s “Balanced Living” site to enter the BOCA “Balanced Living Challenge” for a chance to win the grand prize of $5,000 to help you get what you need to maintain equilibrium. Sounds like something all parents could use!
Check out all the posts below!
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A Letter to Be Read the Day My Last Child Starts Kindergarten
Balanced Living…What Does It Feel Like?
Blog Blast: Finding Your Balance!
Family, Friends, and Spa Time…All In Perfect Balance
How I Keep From Tipping Over On the Merry Go Round of Life
I’m Trying to Keep My Feet on the Ground
Tales of Tightropes and Balance Beams
Worth Every Penny (and a Lot of Them)
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*Please find all the fine print here.
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Tags: Balanced Living, Blog Blast, boca
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hope all is well…
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