Monthly Archives: January 2010

Positive Parenting Tip: Gibberish and Gobbledigook!

Our Yogi Parenting audio tips are presented every Friday by Michaela Turner, BS Ed, CYKT, YKT, Co-Founder Yogi Parenting Listen to this :15 AUDIO TIP: — Michaela is a 30 year veteran educator and a Certified YogaKids Teacher and Trainer. She teaches yoga baby and yoga kids classes for children throughout St. Louis, Missouri. As…

Dream Connection $1000 Shopping Spree

Win $1000 shopping spree! My Mommy Manual and ArtisticSensations.com are celebrating our Dream Connection (read our story here) by inviting you to share yours. ENTER TO WIN Beginning FEBRUARY 14, 2010, we will be accepting your entries! Write a minimum of 300-word essay about a significant mom-to-mom connection in your life that has had a…

How to Respond to Birth Trauma

If your baby has experienced a traumatic birth, this can lead to further complications like difficulty breastfeeding or breathing issues. What can you do to help? (Video 2:39)

How to Bridge the New Generation Gap

Okay, moms… I hate to break it to you of the MTV generation, you are NOT cool anymore! Being a GenExer myself, I’m mostly okay with that… and the fact that the baton is being passed to the new new princes and princesses of cool! Embarassingly enough, I am finding myself saying things like, “When…

How to Do the Homework Hokey Pokey

No animals were harmed in the making of this film. Those are the last words I recall before falling asleep. I stayed up way past my bedtime while watching a DVD of the cult classic: The Doberman Gang. And, that was after completing an impressive heap of homework—not mine—my son’s. Motherly worries made it difficult…

37 Weeks: Crystal Ball

…how can we expectant moms stay content, enjoying the final days/weeks of our pregnancies regardless of the excitement and anticipation coming from the people around us AND ourselves. What is the key to avoiding IASD, also know as the I Am So Done !@#@! Syndrome?

How to Find Your Passion

As part of our series on providing tips for mom entrepreneurs, I interviewed Elena Verlee, a successful mom entrepreneur herself who has started and sold several companies. Now, she is helping others get buzz for their businesses as well as coaching people on turning their passions into business ideas! Listen to Elena’s inspired tips and…

Positive Parenting Tip: Letting Go!

Our Yogi Parenting audio tips are presented every Friday by Michaela Turner, BS Ed, CYKT, YKT, Co-Founder Yogi Parenting Listen to this :15 AUDIO TIP: — Michaela is a 30 year veteran educator and a Certified YogaKids Teacher and Trainer. She teaches yoga baby and yoga kids classes for children throughout St. Louis, Missouri. As…

How to Make Resolutions… and Break Them!

My daughter has a goal to be the first six-year-old with a hundred-dollar bill. I don’t have the heart to tell her about the Vanderbilt/Whitney/Mary-Kate and Ashley set. So far she’s accumulated three twenties from her weekly payoffs/allowances. I’m glad she has a goal, even if the economy has turned our notions of thrift and…

Week 36: Pre-Birth ENERGY

So tell me your funny pre-birth energy surge stories below! I KNOW I’m not the only one… and laughing at them just might be the thing I need to throw me into labor!!!