Sunday, May 8, 2011
The average pay for a stay-at-home mother's job in Livingston is $135,632!
Most stay-at-home moms are awesome. The ones I admire show more resourcefulness, are more organized, and have more patience than any executive I’ve ever known. In their former lives they were lawyers, accountants, teachers, computer programmers, nurses, personnel managers, corporate trainers, and in my case, a marketing manager. We readily gave up our careers in the belief that staying at home with our kids is an investment in their lives as well as precious time for us. Our children are only going to be little once: we don’t want to miss that. We’ve given up the benefits of a salary and the status that goes with it, because people in our society who do not make money have virtually NO status, to remain at home raising our children. …
Monday, February 28, 2011
How do you decide what really is 'must see' TV for young viewers?
“I watched Nixon resign on television when I was a kid." That was my sole and unwelcome contribution to an argument at a neighbor’s house. Amy and her son, Eric, were negotiating how late he could stay up to watch the Oscars. Amy felt that an early bedtime on a Sunday night, after a week without school, was the way to go. Eric felt that if he didn’t watch the Oscars, he would be out of the swim of seventh grade conversation the next day. The compromise, taping the program to watch the next night, didn’t appeal to Eric. “That doesn’t work with a show like this,” he said. True, as the point is to learn who won, to see the winners’ reactions when the names are called. The second possible compromise, watching for an hour, wasn’t satisfying …
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
A few tips on how to slip extra nutrition into your child's food.
My child refuses to eat vegetables. What should I do?” First, don’t panic. Kids’ preferences change, seemingly on a daily basis, so if your pediatrician says your child is healthy, relax. Keep offering fresh vegetables, but get creative. Outside of whipping up some of the recipes in books by Jessica Seinfeld and Missy Lapine (which are both good, but a bit time-consuming), here are some quick, easy ways to get veggies into “veggie resistant” kids: 1. Stock up on baby food. Ms. Seinfeld recommends pureeing fresh vegetables and then slipping the purees into food. I did that and promptly forgot where I’d stored the frozen pureed foods (was it behind the frozen pizza or Jurassic Period Lean Cuisine), so I began buying containers of babyfood…
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11:15 am on Thursday, March 3, 2011
We fell asleep half way thru it! Thanks for the snoooooze fest Franco! The Oscars is overrated! Really! more ›