So the kidlets and I took the LISTERINE ® and REACH ® Healthy Habits for a Lifetime Oral Care Challenge over the past three weeks, d what is the verdict you ask? My kids are now both obsessed with the two F's: flossing and flouride and I their mama couldn't be prouder. For those of you who didn't "get the memo" when we began this LISTERINE ® and REACH ® Healthy Habits for a Lifetime Oral … [Read more...]
We’re taking the LISTERINE and REACH Healthy Habits for a Lifetime Oral Care Challenge
Our kids look to us to be their beacons of strength and I needed to summon every last iota of mine several years ago when, on what was turning out to be yet another routine Monday morning, I got a phone call that changed the trajectory of my daughter's life. Essentially she'd been involved in a freak accident; she was at camp in the bathroom and thought she was trapped in a stall. Another girl … [Read more...]
I’ve come to the end of my two week Special K Challenge and I feel great!
I did it. I stayed on The Special K Challenge for TWO WHOLE weeks. So why and how did I manage to stick to the Special K Challenge for two solid weeks when I've NEVER EVER been able to deny myself my daily bagel drenched in hot butter?! Because a) I am a cereal FIEND! I can and have been known to eat bowls of cereal three times a day and one of my favorites has always been Special K. Of course … [Read more...]
Join me, Rosalind Wiseman at Tween Academy on TheMotherhood as we chat tweens and confidence
I recently posted about my daughter's need for reassurance and my mom mission to instill her with a strong sense of self so that she doesn't feel this need to be so reliant on others to validate her being. So of course when the opportunity to as co-host a Tween Academy class on TheMotherhood, sponsored by Unilever and their Don't Fret the Sweat campaign talking about Tweens and Building … [Read more...]
Why do we girls need so much reassurance that we are loved and appreciated by the men in our lives?
I just found this confessional video my son made on the iPad.(Along with about 350 pictures of himself- but I digress). I know he made this video, because his sister doesn't fully believe in his love for her. She's 10 years old and she is firmly ensconced in this phase of insecurity...about pretty much every facet of her life. Right now, as I type this, it's her hair-- she HATES her natural … [Read more...]