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Parenting lite

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:05:46 GMT

The Washington Post has a nice article on Parenting Lite, or to be more accurate, life after the kids go off to college.

They are asking for personal stories of lessons learned. Here are the details:

If you’re a baby boomer, you’re at least 42 years old this year, and we’re seeking your firsthand report. We’re looking for life lessons, for things learned over a handful of decades and representing the widest range of personal backgrounds and identities. We’ll publish some reports in this space. Write no more than 200 words. Include your name, age, where you live and a phrase describing your submission. Include a photo if you like; digital preferred. By e-mail: boom@washpost.com. Put “Boom Box” in the subject line. By U.S. mail: The Washington Post Health Section, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071. Sorry, we can’t return photos.

Yes, it happens all to soon.

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More parenting blogs

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:57:07 GMT

Parenting blogs are becoming more and more popular. It seems as though a new one is launched every week.

Here is a new one, PhillyMoms, which, of course, is Philadelphia centric.

“At phillymoms.com, moms (and dads) can rant, rave, communicate and collaborate about parenting issues in one of the world’s greatest cities”

Check it out.

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Everything except the hugs!

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:48:13 GMT

I guess it was inevitable in this day and age, but according to an article in SFGate, parents can now outsource just about every aspect of parenting.

Read the whole article here,

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Keeping a calendar for divorced parents

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:44:10 GMT

Womens Divorce has a recent article on how important it is for divorced parents to keep a calendar their kid’s residential schedule.

“Enter the Internet. Several websites have emerged offering the new millennium approach to help parents keep track of schedules and to facilitate their communication. For a reasonable fee, parents can subscribe to a parenting plan calendar service that stores the residential schedule, keeps track of appointments and expenses and will even send out email reminders of their children’s events.”

Read the whole article here.

Famundo for Families will provide an excellent solution for this kind of arrangement. Famundo for Families will be available soon. To sign up to be notified of its release, sign up here.

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"Family-Friendly" Phone from Disney

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:36:02 GMT

Walter Mossberg has a review on Disney Mobile, Disney’s new mobile phnoe company and their “family-friendly” phones in today’s Wall Street Journal.

Generally, Mossberg give it a favorable review.

“Disney Mobile is good news for parents who have had a hard time cracking the whip on cellphone usage and bad news for kids who sneak calls at all hours of the night or who run up their phone bills with text messaging. If you’re looking for a way to keep better tabs on your family’s cellphone usage, this system works well.”

Read the whole article on Mossberg’s web site, The Mossberg Solution.

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Big Mother - it's official (sort of)

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:25:27 GMT

Double-Tongued Word Wrester, a site that records undocumented or under-documented words from the fringes of English. Has an entry for “Big Mother”.

Big Mother n. a government attempting to exercise total control over the well-being of its citizens; parents attempting to constantly monitor or control the activities of their children, especially by means of electronic devices.

Read the complete entry here.

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Parenting in the "MySpace" age

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Mon, 14 Aug 2006 01:58:58 GMT

WebMD has some good advice on parenting in the age of social networking sites like “MySpace”.

Bottom line: Social networking should not cause you to panic.

The good news is that “94% of parents or legal guardians polled have taken actions to ensure their kids’ safe use of the Internet”

Read the whole article here.

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Childcare guru wants parenting blog shut down

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Sat, 12 Aug 2006 02:54:33 GMT

According to a report on TimesOnline, a high-profile childcare expert, Gina Ford, has demanded the closure of Mumsnet.com because people were posting defamitory comments about her.

Mumsnet.com, in turn, has asked it’s readers to refrain from commenting on Ms. Ford.

Read the Times article here.

Read Mumsnet.com’s comments here.

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New Parent mags grab marketshare

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:00:19 GMT

Although ad revenue is down in the publishing industry in general, the parenting market has been hit particularly hard. Ad pages in Meredith Corp.’s 1 million-circulation Child are down 15.8 percent to 518 pages and Time Inc.’s 2.16 million-circulation Parenting are down 15.1 percent to 752.

Two new magazines, though, have been able to carved their place in this crowded field.

Nine months since its debut, the upscale parenting/lifestyle book Cookie, has scored 124 ad pages exclusive to the category, 40 percent from fashion accounts.

Disney’s Wondertime, which launched as a quarterly in February and moves to bimonthly in 2007, saw a 6 percent bump in business, thanks to ads from Hewlett-Packard, Target and Sears.

Read more in this article in MediaWeek.

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Parenting Magazine has a new blog

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:04:55 GMT

Parenting.com has a new parenting blog written by “Five funny mom and dad bloggers report from the parenting trenches every day of the week. Read their posts and share your own.”

Check it out.

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