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Birthday Parties with Special Needs…

by Julia Garstecki
April 12, 2013
Raising a child with a special need certainly has its ups and downs. An impending birthday party, either for your child or a peer, can be a roller coaster ride of emotions for both you and your child. With creative … Continue reading →


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Being Ageless – Resilience!

by Aleta St. James
April 2, 2013
Recently, I’ve been focusing on inspiring people to Be Ageless. Many of you may imagine that’s about exercise, vitamins, and green-tinted healthy shakes — and it partially is — but one of the greatest keys to agelessness might surprise you: … Continue reading →


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Older Mom, Growing Older

by Barbara Herel
March 30, 2013
The average life expectancy for women in the U.S. is anywhere from 73.5 to 86 years of age. As the 48-year-old mother of a three-year-old, if I kick when I am 73.5, I’m going to be pissed. That said, I … Continue reading →


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The Childcare Dilemma

Andrea Lynn
March 24, 2013
The one clear benefit of being late to motherhood is that many of my friends have older children, and I have a glimpse of the future. This week is March Break here – the kids out of school and the … Continue reading →


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Mom On Demand

by Lori Pelikan Strobel
March 22, 2013
I am standing at my new desk, a desk that can be raised to a standing height or lowered to a sitting height. I love it! The room that this desk stands in is my office.  It has been in … Continue reading →


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Gluten and Fertility

by Cindy Bailey
March 20, 2013
I have already written about wheat (which contains gluten) and why it needs to come out of your fertility diet in a previous blog. To recap: wheat is, first of all, hard to digest. “It’s like Velcro on your gut,” … Continue reading →


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Musings…

by Josie Iselin
March 18, 2013
EXPERT A friend came over the other day with her one-year-old. She was struggling to feed her squirmy child and I instinctively held out an extra spoon for the little fist to grab. “Every mother knows you need two spoons … Continue reading →


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It’s A Scrunchy, Not a Scrungy?

by Marc Parsont
March 14, 2013
My daughter loves wearing those “Scrungy” things in her thick, beautiful, curly long toffee- colored hair.  Both our current Bolivian and former Brazilian au pair take those beautiful locks and twist, twine and twirl those tresses into works of art.  … Continue reading →


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Tips for Good Dental Care in Middle Age

by Dr. Carolyn Schweitzer D.D.S.
March 6, 2013
One of the many challenges of mothering in midlife is coping with declining hormone levels just as our tween’s hormones are beginning to surge. But there’s another less talked-about health issue that shows up in middle age. As a dentist … Continue reading →


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Baby It’s Cold Outside

by Maggie Lamond Simone
March 4, 2013
This winter, I’ve decided, has been a lot like childbirth. I don’t mean in the classic sense, obviously, because it hasn’t physically caused me to scream obscenities at complete strangers for hours on end (well, not often, anyway) and it … Continue reading →


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