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For many women, pregnancy is a part of their life’s journey. But sometimes nature just won’t cooperate. Conception can be difficult and women find they’ve taken an unplanned detour due to infertility issues.
Dr. Daoshing Ni, a descendant of more than 70 generations of Taoist masters, is well known amongst infertility specialists. He believes a woman’s [...]
May 15th, 2008 | Posted in Blog Blasts, Books | No Comments
Several of our bloggers have now had an opportunity to weigh in on Were You Raised by Wolves? Clues to the Mysteries of Adulthood by Christie Mellor. This enthusiastic crew has tried out tips and laughed both at themselves and at the book’s target audience. Says one blogger of the author, “She has brought her [...]
May 12th, 2008 | Posted in Books, Household | No Comments
Whether you’re home all day with your baby, or you’re together before and after work and on weekends, sometimes it’s hard to know what to do with this little person who doesn’t talk or walk. Your baby’s not going to say “Hey Mom, let’s go to the coffee shop and get you a treat!” The [...]
May 9th, 2008 | Posted in Blog Blasts, Books | 4 Comments
There’s something so refreshing about reading Mama Rock’s Rules,” starts off one of our bloggers. “And I read a lot of parenting books.”
So far, 10 parent bloggers have reviewed Mama Rock’s Rules: Ten lessons for raising a houseful of successful children. The overwhelming consensus? Definitely worth the read!
Bloggers appreciated Mama Rock’s approach. “Many of her [...]
May 6th, 2008 | Posted in Books, Elementary School, Kids, Pre-school, Pre-teen, Toddler | No Comments
It’s Saturday afternoon. You’ve already took the kids to the park, played hide and seek, read an abundance of stories, colored your umpteenth page out of a Dora coloring book and served high tea to 12 stuffed animals. When you sit down for a minute to collect your thoughts, your preschooler taps your shoulder and [...]
May 4th, 2008 | Posted in Books, Kids | 3 Comments
As author and mom Rebecca Woolf has been making her way up the West Coast promoting her new book Rockabye: From Wild to Child, our last round of bloggers have been writing their reviews.
A well-read and well-liked blogger, Rebecca tells her story about the challenging and yet joyous transition from partier to parent (and everything [...]
May 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Books | 1 Comment
We’ve all been anxiously awaiting the release of blogger and mom Rebecca Woolf’s memoir Rockabye: From Wild to Child. And it’s not just because many of us were already huge fans of Rebecca’s well-known (and well written) blog [this]Girl’s Gone Child. I think that many us saw Rebecca as a cross-over star — a blogger [...]
April 27th, 2008 | Posted in Books | 1 Comment
Go check your bed. Is it unmade?
Yes?
Then you may have been Raised by Wolves, or at least by a mother or father who has chosen to tidy up behind you because they love you. But now that you are a Big Boy or Big Girl, their love would probably be best served telling you [...]
April 24th, 2008 | Posted in Books | 1 Comment
She has raised 10 children and has helped to care for another 17 foster children. In her neighborhood, her house was THE place to hang. Oh, and don’t forget, she’s also got years of teaching experience under her belt. In short, Mama Rock (mother to comedian Chris Rock) knows children. Now the tough yet tender [...]
April 21st, 2008 | Posted in Books, Kids | No Comments
With a slew of momoirs hitting the book shelves (YAY!), it can be hard to navigate through which one would be of great interest to you. Most of us have little time, if any, to enjoy a good read, and so any recommendations that can be passed on from mom to mom, or parent to [...]
April 20th, 2008 | Posted in Books | No Comments