Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:27:00 GMT
I had to laugh when I read the titles for these two new books, “Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay – and Other Things I Had To Learn as a New Mom” and “Daddy Needs a Drink: An Irreverent Look at Parenting From a Dad Who Truly Loves His Kids – Even When They’re Driving Me Nuts,” certainly give the impression that parenting requires a lot more than a healthy dose of stamina.
“Sippy Cups” is by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, a Los Angeles writer and comedian, is described as “empathetic straight dirt on parenting, tackling everything from Mommy & Me classes, written in busy Mom-friendly short essays.
“Daddy Needs a Drink” author Robert Wilder (no relation to Wilder-Taylor), a Santa Fe, New Mexico high-school teacher, shares warmly funny stories on everything from sleep deprivation to why school-sponsored charities can turn otherwise sane adults into blithering and begging idiots.
These sound like couple of good summer reads to have along with your tall Mai Tai!
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:18:00 GMT
Hat tip to Rachel Cook at
Talking Tech on Family 2.0, there seems to be an incredible amount of new Web 2.0 site popping up that are family and parenting oriented.
Some of the new sites recently mentioned on Rachel’s site are
Imbee, a new unique blogging and social networking site developed specifically for kids ages 8 to 14.
OurStory, Capture your life’s story and the story of your family members with photos and video.
Zamily, Another social site for families to set up family tree’s, share calendars, develop connections in your network and friends.
Families, The Internet’s community of friends and family…
Famdoodle, your entire family get together in one place.
GotKidsNetwork, where parents share.
FamilyRoutes, an online community for families.
MothersClick, a better way for mother’s to connect.
How this is all going to shake down is anyone’s guess, but there sure are a lot of cool sites and ideas that being launched.
Rachel’s
Talking Tech on Family 2.0 is a great resource for the latest information on family and parenting oriented sites. Visit it often.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:05:00 GMT
This article from the speaks volumes about what is happening in the media today. From fishbowlNY:
“Another MSM parenting publication is closing down due to lack of advertisers.
Bundle, the year-old New York-based magazine for “pregnant women and moms with babies and toddlers, from 0 to 3” with a rate base of 300,000, has published its last issue, FishbowlNY has learned.
Bundle’s Spring 2006 issue currently on newsstands will be its last.”
This come news comes along at the same time that “Child Magazine” is downsizing and Martha Stewart is scaling back its “Kids” magazine.
Now this can’t be because that are fewer parents nor does it mean that parents aren’t as interested anymore about how to parent.
My suspicion is that parents are turning to alternative media, such as the internet for their information, as evident by the explosion of web sites and blogs that deal with families and parenting.
Let’s face it, the internet has real-time information from real parents, not something that has been sitting around an editor’s desk for a few months. It’s no wonder advertisers are shunning print media.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Wed, 17 May 2006 02:31:00 GMT
Minti, the parent to parent advice-opedia and community website, has just launched an update with a new look and feel in addition to the addition of some new features that enhance the experience for their community.
In addition to reading up other parent’s advice, you can now request advice, post to your own blog, upload photos, subscribe to content and lots of other cool things.
For sometime now, Minti had been a great place to find advice on a wide range of parenting topics. These new features only make it better.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Tue, 16 May 2006 21:32:00 GMT
There is a whole community of blogs dedicated to and written by Stay At Home Dads (SAHDs). I ran across a link on Paul Nyhan’s Family Man blog site to RebelDad . This site, subtitled A Father Puts the Stay-At Home Dad Under the Microscope, is the labor of Brian Read, a SAHD in the Washington DC area.
Read has some interesting statistics on the number of SAHDs in the US, the UK and Japan. Although the numbers vary widely, there is no doubt that the at home fatherhood is an increasingly popular family choice. So popular, in fact that there is even an At-Home Dad Convention that is now in it’s 11th year
Read also has a blogroll of over a hundred other sites and blogs, most of which deal with Stay at Home Dads. One such site Slowlane is an incredible resource on this topic, though it seems that it hasn’t been updated in a while.
For those of you interested in getting more information on the SAHD phenomenon, RebelDad is a great starting point.
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