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Past Talks
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Jun.29.2010 1:00pm ESTP&G Thank You Mom
We're coming together for a live "Thank You Mom" celebration to acknowledge and thank the amazing women online we turn to for their stories, laughs, support, wisdom, bravery, smarts, understanding, voices, truth, more laughs and the great friendships we've made. Join us!! Thank the mom bloggers who mean the world to you and say why! And, be sure to enter the P&G Thank You Mom Reunion Contest to win $1,000 to visit your mom: http://www.thankyoumom.com/
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The Forum
Picked from the headlines
Let's talk about what's in the news these days - articles that catch our eye, interesting tidbits, studies released, whatever's going on in the media that you'd like to talk about.
LATEST POSTED BY: DeborahI'm wondering are you following the Treyvon Martin case? Or lack thereof?ViewMarch.28th.2012
Mom's Breakfast Club: Love Your Cereal
We all know breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and we are all looking for ways to make it simple! Let's talk about breakfast, kids' cereal and morning routines. With the new school year starting, we thought this was the perfect time to get a conversation going about the meal that helps start the day off right!
LATEST POSTED BY: ThisFullHouseOne more, for the moms in the back: http://www.thisfullhouse.com/reviews/2010/10/foodie-tuesday-kelloggs-moms-breakfast-club-recipes.htmlViewOctober.19th.2010
P&G Thank You Moms
We have been forever changed by our relationships with our mom blogger friends. In the spirit of that, ten INCREDIBLE mom bloggers are writing five "thank you's" each, one a day for a week, acknowledging and thanking the mom bloggers who've made a difference in her life. Won't you join them to thank the mom bloggers in your life? And please, join us to enter the Thank You Mom Contest and you might win $1000 for a special trip to visit your mom: http://thankyoumom.com/
LATEST POSTED BY: inkscrblrI like Lee of http://www.mysentimentsexactlee.com She was the first person I connected with at Type A Mom. It was my first conference and she was really friendly and gave great mentoring tips. She's just a really nice person and a true genuine individual without pretense.ViewOctober.21st.2010
A Smart Phone Smart Enough for a Mom: Verizon Palm Pre Plus
TheMotherhoood is partnering with Verizon Wireless and ten awesome mom bloggers to try out the new Verizon Wireless Palm Pre Plus. Check out this circle for updates on the bloggers' experiences with theVerizon Palm Pre Plus.
LATEST POSTED BY: CooperWoooo hoooo! This is SO exciting! On Thursday, March 18th at 11 am EST five of our Verizon Palm Pre Plus mom bloggers are the celebrity guests on http://www.blogtalkradio.com/flylady/2010/03/18/how-smart-moms-balance-life Blog Talk Radio show! Here's a link to the show,http://www.blogtalkradio.com/flylady/2010/03/18/how-smart-moms-balance-life The panel will cover multitasking, organizing and talk about their experiences with the Palm Pre Plus, too.http://www.blogtalkradio.com/flylady/2010/03/18/how-smart-moms-balance-life . I know it is going to be great. Here are the lovely ladies who are being featured on the show:Nicole at http://momtrends.blogspot.com/2010/03/palm-pre-plus-reivew-part-iv-giveaway.html Sarah at http://www.tech4mommies.com/2010/03/win-a-palm-pre-plus/ http://www.tech4mommies.com/2010/03/win-a-palm-pre-plus/ Jo-Lynne at http://www.musingsofahousewife.com/2010/03/verizon-palm-pre-plus-winners-and-final-comments.html Christy at http://quirkyfusion.com/2010/03/win-a-verizon-palm-pre-plus-and-a-25-verizon-gift-card/ Caryn at http://rockinmama.net/2010/03/01/win-a-palm-pre-plus-giveaway/ UPDATE WITH AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!! Sarah is hosting an awesome Twitter party at 9 pm EST on Wednesday to get ready for the show. We'll be giving away a Verizon Palm Pre Plus device and sharing great info on the phone too! http://www.tech4mommies.com/2010/03/palm-pre-plus-twitter-party-plus-giveaway/ and join in using this cool http://tweetgrid.com/grid?l=2&q1=%23VerizonPalmPrePlus%20OR%20%23T4MT&q2=list:tech4mommies/verizonpalmpreplusmoms&q3=Palm%20OR%20Pre%20OR%20Verizon%20OR%20FlyLady that Sarah created! See you there!ViewMarch.15th.2010
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Flip
Real Moms. Real discussions. Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Life!
LATEST POSTED BY: letkidsplayI need some help. I took a bunch of videos of different playgrounds with my brand new Flip, while we were on vacation. I downloaded them and when I go to look at them, the sound and the video don't synchronize. As I am giving tours of the playgrounds this is a problem. Is there a way to fix this?ViewApril.9th.2010
Dinner Time Again? Help! In need of inspiration!
Easy recipes, inspiration, ideas. Help each other find new ways to fix fast, healthy, tasty dinners by sharing our standbys -- the top-of-the-head recipes or family favorites we pull out of the hat on those days when we face the, "yikes, it's dinnertime already and I haven't done anything about feeding everyone" moment. Or the recipes you come across that inspire you to mix things up a bit.
LATEST POSTED BY: Kayla S5 real, fast, delicious meals from around the U.S. Eatocracy - Rachael Ray, Robin Miller and Martha Stewart all whip up some quick-and-easy meals on TV, but for those of us who aren’t gifted in the culinary sense, they might not be that simple. Well folks, CNN iReport has answered your cooking prayers. We’ve collected real recipes from real people as part of the cultural census for CNN's Defining America. For each night of the busy workweek, we’ve selected five fast, delicious meals that won’t eat up too much time or leave you scratching your head. Arturo Navarro of Chula Vista, California, can make a meal of scrumptious salmon, brown rice, and spinach salad in 15 minutes flat. The salmon cooks in virgin olive oil for three minutes on each side. In the meantime, he washes and prepares the spinach, tomato, bell pepper, and avocado salad – a favorite he makes a few times a week. “I’ve changed my diet since last May, so I’ve been eating salmon; better nutrition than what I ate before,” he said. He now prepares fresh meals each day. Michelle Chu’s typical weekday dinners usually consist of a protein, veggies and of course, dessert! She and her boyfriend, who live in Richmond, Virginia, recently visited Omaha Steaks for the first time and were sold on the tender meat. “It’s something we eat frequently because it’s filling, easy to prepare and tastes great.” Chu’s meal of steak, asparagus and whipped sweet potatoes took about 30 minutes from start to finish. And, she ended the meal on a sweet note – angel food cake drizzled with raspberries and Biscoff spread. Are we in heaven yet? Keep reading: http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/07/06/ireport-5-real-fast-delicious-meals-from-around-the-u-s/?hpt=hp_bn8ViewJuly.6th.2011
The Motherhood News
Welcome to The Motherhood! In this circle please share ideas on how to use The Motherhood and ask any questions you may have. We'd also love if you used this space to tell us about "bugs" -- things in the site that might not be working just right yet! We are so glad you are here.
LATEST POSTED BY: Susan24/7 MOMS is on the road this week in Hawaii Join www.247moms.com & Trisha on Tuesday night at 7pm/9pm PST for a taste of life on the Island. 247moms #1 webshow for moms!!!ViewSeptember.7th.2010
Gaming Moms
Whether you play the MMORPGs like World of Warcraft of get your groove on with Wii Boogie or just like to hang with your Nintendo DS, here is the place to talk all things gaming!
LATEST POSTED BY: Erin OAngry Birds' 'astounding' popularity: By the numbers This week, Finnish gaming company Rovio Entertainment announced via an animated video press release that its hit mobile game Angry Birds has been downloaded an "astounding" 500 million times since its 2009 debut. The implausibly addictive game lets players propel animated birds from a sling shot, all in a quest to destroy evil pigs who have stolen the birds' eggs. Here's a by-the-numbers look at the milestone: 23 Months it took for the game to reach the 500-million-download milestone. It was first released for Apple's iOS in December 2009. 266 billion Number of levels of the game that have been played 400 billion Number of birds that have been shot 44 billion Number of stars collected. (Players win zero to three stars at the end of each level, depending on their performance.) 300 million Number of minutes each day that Rovio estimates the game is played worldwide 1.825 billion Number of hours per year that estimate equals 200,000 Number of years that the total amount of Angry Birds game-play to date adds up to 79 Number of countries in which Angry Birds is the top downloaded game $1 billion Amount Rovio is estimated to be worth by Chief Marketing Officer Peter Vesterbacka 10 million Number of Angry Birds toys sold worldwide, says Chloe Albanesius at PC World 1 Number of films based on Angry Birds currently in development, according to the U.K.'s Guardian. It's being eyed for a 2015 release. 1 Number of Angry Birds games based on a film. Angry Birds Rio, inspired by the animated movie Rio, was released in March 2011. 10 million Number of times Angry Birds Rio was downloaded in its first 10 days of release, says Jeffrey Van Camp at Digital Trends See the article: http://theweek.com/article/index/221016/angry-birds-astounding-popularity-by-the-numbersViewDecember.13th.2011
Generation Huggies Dallas
Join me as I blog the Generation Huggies events live from Dallas, Texas!
LATEST POSTED BY: JennSOriginally Posted by JennS in JennS's Circle Remember when I told you that I was working with Generation Huggies interviewing moms? They searched for 30 moms to feature in their 30th Anniversary ad campaign. Remember when I asked you to go vote for your favorite? Well, the winners have been chosen! Check out these videos out at Generation Huggies.com. Click the Winners Gallery Tab and see listen to what these women had to say about Motherhood. As I eagerly watched through the videos, I was thrilled to find one of the moms that I met at the Texas State Fair. Her name is Britt. She was so nice and so kind! I adored her immediately. Imagine my delight to see that she was one of the chosen winners of hundreds of entries. Britt will be featured in a national ad campaign for Huggies. Meet Britt from the Dallas area.ViewJanuary.28th.2009
Jenn's Circle
It's Jenn's circle of love, baby!
LATEST POSTED BY: JennSIf you blog, you have probably heard the question, why do you blog? Or "What is the point?" Maybe even "What difference does a blog make?" It makes a lot of difference. One blogger can touch hundreds...even thousands of lives.Many mom bloggers have followed a fellow blogger through her trials with ovarian cancer--all three times she has been diagnosed. I am talking about Lisa Kelly of http://clusterfook.com/ . I would read her stories--in that no holds barred way of writing she always had-- and admire her, weep with her, celebrate with her and laugh with her. She entered my heart and she made me listen to her. No, I take that back. I wanted to listen to her. She had amazing things to say. Lisa is a mom to two tween girls and a wonderfully loving husband. She is dying. When I say she is dying, I mean that she is in her last moments. From the most recent post on her blog as posted by her friend http://secondhandkarl.com/ :"She’s in the final, final stages now, people. So out of her mind with pain and drugs that she often doesn’t even recognize her husband or children. Dude says it’ll be “lucky” if she makes it through the weekend, though he also says it’ll be luckier if God takes her away sooner. She’s that bad.I’d been riding her to get a “last post” done, but it doesn’t look like that happened. There’s a fragment of a post she was working on, which I’ll post here soon, but there won’t be any more posts from Lisa beyond that."That last sentence squeezed my heart so tightly. I just cannot fathom such a beautiful and amazing voice silenced. It quite literally brings me to sobbing tears. (So forgive me if this post doesn't make as much sense as I would like it to.)As moms, I know so many of us feel that heartbreak knowing the family she is leaving behind. Two tween girls. A loving husband. Her family. Her family.We at the Motherhood want to reach out to those girls. We want to let them know that their mom leaves behind an amazing legacy with her words. We want them to know about the hundreds or even thousands of lives she has touched with her blog. Her blog means something to so many of us. We understand we can never take away the pain. Nothing we can do can make it right or make it better. But we want to show her girls in some small way that their mom touched our lives, too. Many of us strangers. All of us loving her and praying for her and keeping her in our heart.The Motherhood is going to put together a small package for her girls and husband. We will be adding small things just to let them know we are thinking of them and we, too, loved and cherished their mother. We will be putting some homemade items like the beaded bracelets and other things that are made with love, but we also want to hear from you. Because we are a community here and that is what we do. We reach out and we care. This community at the Motherhood has shown that time and again. It is time to do it again, my friends.Do you want to add something? Do you have an idea of something to add to our care package of support? Please, leave it in the comments so we can get this community together and behind this family--even in a small way. Even if you just want to leave a message for her family, please do so. Those words of support mean so very much! We will send them along with whatever package we give them. Please, help let them know the power their mom and her blog has had in the blogosphere. These girls should know and see in tangible ways how much their mother was loved and the many women she touched with her story. Again, we know it won't make anything better, but it may just show the girls that the reach their mother had was far, far beyond the inner circle of family and personal friends. Lisa has touched us and will for as long as people can read her story. And for as long as we share it with others.Lisa, may you find your peace and leave us knowing you were loved.ViewFebruary.26th.2009Moms to Teens (or preteens)
You love them--these little strangers in your house. But now that they are older, you are finding less support online and with websites. Let's figure out these wonderful (and at times difficult) strangers in our house together. Advice, hints, tips or vents. We can handle it.
LATEST POSTED BY: Kayla SStudy finds 10% of tweens, teens have 'sexted' (CNN) -- "Sexting" -- the practice of taking sexually explicit photos and sending them to peers via cell phones or the Internet -- may be less common among U.S. adolescents than previous research and media reports have suggested, according to a new nationwide study. In contrast to a widely cited 2008 survey in which 20% of teens reported sending or posting sexual pictures of themselves, the new survey -- in a younger group of Internet users, some as young as 10 -- found that only 10% of teens and tweens had done so. And just 1% reported sending or receiving nude or partly nude images. "It's still something that we need to talk to kids about, but not all kids are doing it," says Kimberly J. Mitchell, Ph.D., a study coauthor and a research associate professor of psychology at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham. "It's a bit reassuring, because a lot of the other studies about this have come up with much larger numbers." The new findings, which appear in the January issue of the journal Pediatrics, shouldn't be interpreted to mean that sexting isn't a serious problem, says Amanda Lenhart, a senior research scientist at the Pew Internet & American Life Project, in Washington, D.C. "Even if you look at 1% or 2% of kids in a high school of a thousand kids, that's 10 to 20 kids, and that's plenty of people for whom this is a big issue and for whom this is a troublesome problem in their lives," says Lenhart, who has researched teen sexting but was not involved in the new study. Continue reading: http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/05/health/teens-sexting/index.html?hpt=hp_bn10ViewDecember.5th.2011Mommybloggers
For Moms who blog ... whether you call yourself a mom blogger, mommyblogger, mother who blogs -- you are welcome here. Share your URL with us and say a little about yourself!
LATEST POSTED BY: MomwichHi, I'm Momwich - I've been a mommy blogger since my gorgeous daughters were 6 and 2... fast forward a few years and several thousand dollars in girl scout fees, cheer uniforms and orthodontics and they're now 16 and 12 - and I'm still blogging about my parenting fails :) http://www.momwich.netViewMay.2nd.2012
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