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How to Keep Talking to Your Tween

I love, love, love the fact that Rosalind Wiseman reminds us that we matter to our tweens! Sometimes it’s easy to forget that when all they talk about is what their friends think — it seems that the only opinions that are those of their peers. I’m just starting down this road with my nine-year…

How to Celebrate Mamas

In the US alone, $14.6B is spent annually on Mother’s Day for “stuff” that could just never say what’s in our hearts. What if instead, we all just unleashed that love on the world? How would it impact our world if we stopped using stuff as a surrogate for love? What if we invested that…

How Not to “Sweat It!”

All you moms of tweens and teens will appreciate this: I had the chance to talk to Rosalind Wiseman, my Twitter friend and also author of Queen Bees and Wannabees. She visited with several moms about how they talk to their tweens about… (no, not about sex)… about sweat! Yup, that birds and bees conversation…

How to Be Ready for Babies/Kids! Come see us at the Baby Kid Expo

Well, there are million and one things to do to get ready… just ask Zen Mommy. She did it times two! If you are in St. Louis on April 30, join us at the Baby Kid Expo. Why? 1) Because we will be there with our friends at Kolcraft, giving away tons of great new…

Cutest Baby Contest

Okay, yes… we are suckers for the babies! So when our friends at Baby Kid Expo asks us to partner with them on the Cutest Baby Contest, resistance was futile. We want to see your cutest baby pics… and share them… and gush over them… and have everyone else gush over them too! GRAND PRIZE…

How to Tune In

This Sunday, Suzanne and I are facilitating a workshop at Passport to Power — a day-long mom-daughter conference in St. Louis. The event’s mission is one we strongly believe in, empowering girls through stronger connections with their female role models. Our morning session is called Sing Your Truth and will focus on how to tune…

How to Start Talking Birds & Bees

I pulled this video because, one, my girlfriends and I, all mother’s of ten year old girls, were JUST talking about this over lunch the other day. We were all in different places as far as having had “the talk” but agreed it was time if one hadn’t begun to share about this important subject…

How to Tell… is your life happy or interesting?

I was having a fascinating discussion at BlissDom with Esther and BrenĂ© about Penelope’s post on happy versus interesting. Penelope’s conclusion is that “people need to choose between an interesting life and a happy life.” And it got me to thinking… are these two concepts really diametrically opposed — at two ends of a spectrum?…

How to Rock Your Facebook Page

You already know you need to get your business/organization on Facebook but you just don’t know where to begin. This webinar will get you started. John Haydon is a well-respected consultant specializing in social marketing for nonprofits and entrepreneurs. He has a knack for making technical jargon easy and accessible. John is also a good…

How to Prevent Birth Defects

Did you know that January is Birth Defects Prevention month? I just happened to follow doctor’s orders and took my prenatal vitamins with my two pregnancies, even though they made me sick a lot of times. I’m glad I did though because I didn’t realize how important they are in terms of fetal development until…