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Time Magazine Cover: What’s the Real Controversy?

May 10, 2012

My friend Jamie Lynne from I Am Not The Babysitter is the mom on this week’s cover of Time Magazine the cutie breastfeeding is her son. The internet lit up like a damn Christmas tree when the image was released. Some were lamenting that Aram was too old.  Sherri Shepherd (who I love) went too [...]

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Johnson’s Baby Cares Twitter Party

May 7, 2012

This post is copied from Latina Bloggers Connect with permission from the author Rachel Matos. JOHNSON’S Baby Cares has joined forces with Save the Children and new mom Hilary Duff to make sure families who are experiencing difficult times, both in the U.S. and around the world, get the baby care resources they need. For [...]

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How do We Measure Our Kids?

May 3, 2012

State testing is coming soon to out local school district.  Standardized testing is a sore spot with me.  I realize that there needs to be a “measuring stick” for how students are progressing but I don’t think one test is a good measurement of that, since each student learns differently. My daughter is a great [...]

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Hungry?

April 8, 2012

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of The Walmart Foundation for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. While Spring is the time for rebirth and new flowers and life it is also the time when charitable donations get smaller.   Families are starting vacations, there is no more “stockpile” for the winter [...]

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Flash Mob in LA!

March 18, 2012

This post is written by Edwin Duterte and is  a copy of the invite to a Flash Mob that will be happening in Los Angeles on March 22, 2012.  This event is sponsored by Pink Slip Mixers and Hire America.  If you are in the area and would like to attend, please go to the [...]

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Happy Birthday!

March 12, 2012

Today marks the 100th birthday of Girl Scouts. Founder Juliette Gordon Low organized the first group of Girl Scouts on March 12, 1912 in Savannah, Georgia. The Girl Scouts of the USA was chartered by the United States Congress in 1950. Since then, through membership in the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, [...]

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It Gets Better, Then it Gets Worse and Then it Gets Better Again

February 22, 2012

You may remember (or learned about it in History Class) Black Monday for the crash of the Stock Market.  But I remember it for different reasons. October 19, 1987.  I was 19 years old.  I was done. My mom had custody of Marisa, I lost my apartment, my chance at reconciling with Marisa’s father were [...]

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Proud

February 6, 2012

I didn’t watch the Super Bowl on Sunday, I didn’t really care who won.  I used to tape it every year just to fast forward through the games so I could watch the commercials.  With You Tube around I don’t even have to do that anymore.  Honestly, I don’t really much care about them either.  [...]

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Testing and NCLB

January 27, 2012

Today I am over at Moms LA talking about teaching to the test.  I would love to have you join me over there and give your two cents. “We have all heard about visual vs. tactical learners.  Some take direction better than others and some need to be more hands on to learn.  Think of [...]

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Keep on Cruisin’

January 19, 2012

An Italian cruise ship from the Costa Cruise Line ran into a shelf of coral last week and started taking on water.  It listed to one side and “sank” (it didn’t actually “sink” since when it hit the coral the captain steered the ship toward shallower ground so it would be easier to evacuate). The [...]

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