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Calming Kids Fears in Tough Situations

Posted 08/26/2010 6:14 am GMT | Parenting

Topics family crisis, parenting advice, parenting challenges, Parenting Tip, tough topics

I’m a worrier. I worry by nature. I come from a long line of worry warts. It’s pretty safe to assume that worrying is in my DNA. However, having kids has taught me that as much as I want to worry or need to worry… I simply can’t do it in front of the kids.

Oh sure they see me do some...

A Conversation with Kelly Corrigan (Enter to win her book "Lift"!)

byNichole Smith

Posted 08/26/2010 5:36 am GMT | Parenting

Topics giveaway, kelly corrigan, lift, love, motherhood, parenting, Sweeps!

“I thought I’d be cooler as a mom. But then I leaned back on the delivery table and Dr. Laura Statchel pulled out a baby, and somewhere between the precious bundle that was Georgia and the placenta, all that it’s cool, no worries, sure why not? stuff came out too”...

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Helping Children Deal with Change

byAmy Lupold Bair

Posted 08/24/2010 1:46 am GMT | Parenting

Topics Parenting Tip

I still vividly remember the day my parents traded in their first station wagon for a newer model. It was the car they drove to bring me home from the hospital, the one in every family vacation photo, and I was sure that if I collected all of my piggy bank money it would be enough to buy...

"Raising Bains" on A&E

by Connie Hughes, Smockity Frocks

Posted 08/23/2010 8:59 pm GMT | Parenting

Topics Review

I have been given the opportunity to review "Raising Bains", a new show that will be airing on the A&E network Monday, August 23 @ 11pm/10C.

It was described to me as "a one hour documentary", but it felt very much like a reality show much like "Jon and Kate Plus 8" or "19 Kids and...

National Toddler Month

byAmy Lupold Bair

Posted 08/18/2010 9:49 pm GMT | Parenting

Topics Parenting Tip

Though not an official holiday, August is unofficial National Toddler Month. As a mom of a four and a six-year-old, the idea of celebrating the joy of toddlers for a full month is not only a fun idea, but one that makes me tear up just a bit. For all of the talk of "Terrible...

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