Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:01:00 GMT
I just found out about two new online magazines for parents that you should check out when you get a chance.
The Father Life is created specifically for fathers and will be launching its first issue in January 2007.
When THE FATHER LIFE founder Ben Murphy became a father, he quickly noticed that there weren’t any men’s magazines out there created with fathers in mind; everything seemed to be for eligible bachelors. And parenting magazines were all targeted at mothers. He chatted with some friends and they decided it was time to create a men’s magazine specifically for fathers. Hence, THE FATHER LIFE was born.
Babble was launched on December 12, 2006 and is geared towards hip, urban mothers and fathers.
Published by the same people who publish Nerve, Babble takes a more irreverent approach to parenting advice than is typically found in parenting magazines.
Babble will be every bit as disruptive to the status quo as Nerve was when it started. It will be a revolution in parenting magazines: a publication that talks to parents not just as caregivers, but as fun, smart, intellectually curious people. It will apply Nerve’s tradition of irreverent honesty to the experience of parenting without the infantilizing, hyper-judgmental tone or acquisitive baby-as-accessory bent of so much of today’s parenting fare.
The subject of parenting needs a bold new voice because people lie about it so often. The topic is plagued by politically correct clichés and generic sentimentality. This is just what we said about sex nine years ago. Today there are more taboos and more social pressures around parenting than there are around sex. We will cover the most controversial topics in parenting via personal essays, our exhaustive info center, and witty, original columns like “Bad Parent” and “Notes from a Non-Breeder.”
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Sun, 24 Dec 2006 17:22:00 GMT
Every spring, the Social Security Administration announces the most popular baby names for the past year.
This year, BabyCenter has released its own list with name data collected from 370,000 BabyCenter members. Interestingly, there are quite a few differences in the two lists.
The top names from BabyCenter are Emma and Aiden. Last year’s top names from the SSA were Emily and Jacob. Aiden didn’t even make the SSA’s top 10 and Emma was number two.
I suspect the discrepancy is due to the fact that the SSA draws from US parents only, whereas, BabyCenter would draw from a more international representation, including Australia, Canada, Germany, Sweden, and the UK.
To view the complete BabyCenter list, click here.
Click here for information on the SSA list.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:13:03 GMT
This has to be one of the busiest times of the year (Of course, each season seems to bring on its own unique brand busyness). The kids will soon be out of school for a few weeks. The evenings are busy with parties and other social affairs. Time needs to be alotted for family and friends.
In the few spare moments during the last few weeks of this year, I intend to get our family organized, which, of course, means getting our family fully on board with Famundo. Several of the local groups that we belong to will also be rolling out their own Famundo sites, so we can subscribe to their calendars.
But there are many other things that we can use some extra help with. A new service has come to my attention, GetVendors.com
GetVendors.com, a web 2.0 start up has taken upon the challenge of relieving stress of household chores from busy lives of working moms (and dads, I might add).
GetVendors.com has three primary functional modules
1. Pro-match (an online service professional match making service)
2. Household Organizer (AJAX based interactive tools to manage household chores.
3. Community Groups that help users share everyday ideas with their trusted friends.
is the only service that gets you proposals from professionals who best match your needs & not the only ones who pay for leads
You can create your own groups, but one that looks very useful is one for Working Moms.
So if you need to find someone trim your trees or fix your computer, GetVendors.com is a good place to start.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:03:27 GMT
We just had our annual parent meeting at our daughter’s middle school this week and, as we did last year, we ended the meeting with, for lack of a better term, a parent covenant. This is where parents agree to set limits on what our children are allowed to and not allowed to do, especially when it involves activities that include other children in the class.
This provides a real safety net when your children are having a sleepover or visiting a friend, you know that the other family has agreed to certain standards won’t be broken. It makes a very powerful statement when you can tell your child that the parents in the class have decided this as a group that some activity is not acceptable.
It is interesting how the concerns of parents have changed over the years with changes in technology . Although the Internet and e-mail is still a concern, there was much more discussion over issues like social networking sites, such as MySpace, and text messaging. These weren’t even on the radar when our son started middle school three years ago.
You can read my post regarding last year’s meeting here.
We are very appreciative that our school provides this opportunity and actually encourages this dialog among the parents.
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