31st May - 28th JunMonthly Top Blog Posts on Parenting

21 Jun

Friday Shuffle - The Open Up and Say What the Hell?!? Edition

www.poppymom.com14 commentsSocialRank

Obviously, we were hoping that Clara Jane would inherit my dad and my dental genetic code. And while I can’t complain much because we have such a healthy kid, it looks like in the chopper department, she’s on her…

New Moon Girl Media: Orb28 Gives Rise to Teen Voices (Part 2)

www.shapingyouth.org10 commentsSocialRank

Ready to tap into the ‘inner sphere’ of the upcoming teen site Orb28?Continuing yesterday’s post about youth media orgs like these ready to put pop culture messaging on a whole new frequency, we’ll see what some…

15 Jun

Come sail away

mothergoosemouse.com10 commentsSocialRank

I look to the seaReflections in the waves spark my memorySome happy, some sadI think of childhood friends and the dreams we had- Come Sail Away, StyxWhat a difference a (school) year makes.I didn’t really realize how…

14 Jun

Anonymous Question for You All

theshapeofamother.com21 commentsSocialRank

Thanks for posting your website. I struggled with infertility - and am pregnant at 240 pounds (almost 6 months) through invetro. I am overweight and struggle with how bad I look. It’s nice to read I am not alone. Being…

12 Jun

Hipster parenting goes too far: the toddler leisure suit

www.babygadget.net3 commentsSocialRank

We all want to dress our precious children in beautiful and pleasing clothes, but you must have also noticed the trend towards using your kid as a kind of billboard to advertise your great sense of humour. Thus, the…

11 Jun

You said Mom Jeans?

www.svmoms.com2 commentsSocialRank

I used to be very fashion conscious, I paid attention to trends, even as a girl I watched the styles (okay it may have been Brady Bunch, but still I watched) and kept up with my fashion rags (Seventeen, Tiger Beat and…

06 Jun

Track your new mama milestones
Rookie Moms

www.rookiemoms.com3 commentsSocialRank

When we look back in 25 years, we will marvel that our babies have become adults who drive cars and earn their own paychecks. (Here’s hoping!)You probably have a baby book to track your bambino’s progress through…

04 Jun

Another Day, Another Set of Bentos

thelactivist.blogspot.com9 commentsSocialRank

Bento lunches for ToddlersOriginally uploaded by Jennifer LaycockThese were the kid's bento lunches for school on Tuesday.The top one is Elnora's. It's a single tier box with some divided compartments. By…

The New Dilution

www.sweet-juniper.com98 commentsSocialRank

So we're using cloth diapers with the new baby. I haven't written anything about it, because frankly I'm not sure how to write about it without sounding like a hippie blowhard and I fear just by mentioning…

This just in: Parenthood apparently requires parenting skills - ParentDish

www.parentdish.com0 commentsSocialRank

Filed under: Babies, ToddlersThere’s so much work involved with caring for a very small child, but pretty much all of it boils down to Keeping the Baby Alive, Limiting the Amount They Cry, and Occasionally Removing…

Talent Show Idea

mamasbagoftricks.blogspot.com4 commentsSocialRank

This cute tadpole song is really cute. My children love it to bits. It also seems like a cute thing to do for a children’s talent show. So, if you are searching for an idea, try this.

Smoosh

www.sundrymourning.com59 commentsSocialRank

Dylan seems to be at a particularly binary stage of babydom: either he’s being ridiculously, almost putridly adorable, or he’s a rotten little hell-beast who should be reclassified as a WMD and parachuted into war…

02 Jun

Giveaway-BornFit Cameron Maternity Pullover

table4five.net35 commentsSocialRank

Not to take away from the effusive praise my husband is receiving for the bathroom mirror frame he made and painted with his own hands, which you can see in the post immediately proceeding this one, but I have another…

Mom and Me Camping

www.suburbanbliss.net20 commentsSocialRank

Friday morning I decide enough is enough and three nights of not sleeping isn’t worth pretending I’m a healthy person. I accept I’m a sickly weak person who has been on antibiotics three times in two months and called…

Gay Marriage & Gametes

www.republicoft.com3 commentsSocialRank

Note: Today is Blogging for LGBT Families Day, the purpose of which is “to indicate that not all families fit the traditional model of one mother and one father.” A good number of my posts today will be in keeping…

01 Jun

OH MY GOD THERE'S A SIX-INCH GASH IN THIS POST

www.alittlepregnant.com152 commentsSocialRank

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a ridiculously bulbous woman in possession of a third-trimester fetus must be in want of some way to get that sucker out. I am at that point myself. At almost 31 weeks, I…

31 May

Amazon Father’s Day DVD sale: up to 50% off hundreds of "manly" movies | Parent Hacks

www.parenthacks.com0 commentsSocialRank

I saw the new Indiana Jones movie last week, and, while I was generally underwhelmed by the film, I was perfectly content to be in the company of one of my favorite movie heroes for a couple of hours. This morning, I…

Exploiting Your Babies for Money

www.babylune.com4 commentsSocialRank

Pic Courtesy of NewsCom.comNot many of us do this but I know in the celebrity world this seems like a common thing. Why? Is it a matter of who is more popular than the next? Lets take for instance the two new reality…

29 May

That bizarre woman and her rude blog

www.dooce.com361 commentsSocialRank

So I thought I should start this post with an email I got this morning from a Canadian reader named Tessa. Hi, Tessa!Subject: Your Misrepresentation of Canadians Should Be EmbarrassingYou are such a wonderful, wise,…

vanity, all is vanity

secret-agent-josephine.com24 commentsSocialRank

I was going to write a post about how great it is to have a girl. How I love having tea parties and playing fairy princess with her in the park. Something light and fluffy about how we made flower-chain crowns that…

week one

shisomama.wordpress.com19 commentsSocialRank

Thanks, friends, for all the well wishes. I have so looked forward to opening my inbox every day and reading your comments and emails, and it still amazes and surprises me that people that I’ve only met online would…

… and still, sometimes bedtime just stinks

www.apparenting.com5 commentsSocialRank

Last night I was at a workshop until 10.30pm, which wouldn’t have been a big deal if my kids would have cooperated with the babysitter and gone to sleep when they were supposed to. But they didn’t and when I walked in,…

28 May

Ask Moxie: Getting along with your parents as an adult, part 1: The parent’s responsibility

www.askmoxie.org0 commentsSocialRank

So I’ve been putting this off for years. Literally. Years. I get emails occasionally from people asking how to navigate the relationship with their parents (usually their mothers) and I haven’t known exactly how to…

27 May

Pushing Your Kids Toward Drug Addiction

www.beagooddad.com3 commentsSocialRank

It seems like everybody in America is on some kind of medication these days. I have been taking the generic version of Allegra for a couple years now.I just heard about a new product designed for helping kids deal with…

Citroen Kar-A-Sutra Had Room For Seven Horny Mimes

daddytypes.com3 commentsSocialRank

Mario Bellini created the Kar-a-Sutra as a collaboration for Citroen and Pirelli in 1972. It was first exhibited at a groundbreaking show at MoMA that introduced Italian modern design to the US, Italy. The New Domestic…

26 May

Live blogging two crappy parenting shows

www.babble.com6 commentsSocialRank

I’m going to make an attempt to tap out some opinions about what I’m going to call “the crappy parenting hour” on E! - Denise Richards: It’s Complicated and Living Lohan. The opinions aren’t going to be a problem,…

Martin Luther King III, wife welcome a daughter

www.celebrity-babies.com13 commentsSocialRank

The first grandchild of the late civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. was born yesterday, Sunday, May 25th, at Northside Hospital in Atlanta. A spokesman said that new mom Arndrea Waters King and new baby Yolanda…

Lady of leisure no more.

www.screamything.com5 commentsSocialRank

Welp. My days of leisure are about to be done.After agonizing and working myself into a frothy vomit inducing worry session I finally decided to give the nanny notice.I really had to get over the guilt of leaving the…

25 May

Nipple Cream Recalled: Mommy’s Bliss Off The Shelves

babytoolkit.blogspot.com6 commentsSocialRank

A friend sent me a notification of an FDA product recall on Mommy’s Bliss Nipple Cream by MOM Enterprises.Since it’s an FDA recall rather than one by the CPSC, it has not shown up in the regular RSS feed of recalls (I…

Why Must I Be So Dramatic?

www.misszoot.com28 commentsSocialRank

So - remember last night’s post about how I was hoarding my pain medication b/c I was scared to run out? Well…I have taken nothing but ibuprofen for about 12 hours and you know what? I kinda feel fine. Almost…

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