It’s almost the end of summer so let’s have some fun! Lots of people now regularly post “selfies” of themselves (even when it’s not Selfie Sunday!). So let’s post some melfies (MOM selfies). We may be moms but we’re still fun and fabulous. Just text us your melfie to 646-258-3907, or email to info@mommybites.com, with […]
Author: Heather Ouida
Heather co-founded babybites with business partner Laura Deutsch. Heather was a learning specialist where she taught in London for many years as well as at The Dalton School in Manhattan. Heather holds a BA in psychology from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, an MA in child development form Tufts University and acquired her learning specialist degree form York University in England. Heather currently resides in Manhattan her husband, two boys, two fish and pet turtle. Heather’s hobbies include, hot yoga, Nutella eating, writing, Bravo watching, reading and sharing inappropriate jokes with girl friends.
In The Direction Of Kindness
It was about this time a few years ago that I began the overwhelming process of filling out applications for nursery school for my son. One of the questions on many of the applications asked to “describe the one characteristic I most wanted my son to exemplify.” I thought about this for a long time. […]
Leaders Who Raise Leaders
I am obsessed with TED Talks. For those of you know don’t know about TED Talks, they are 20-minute, highly engaging videos on just about every topic out there. So you can imagine how I reacted when I started seeing people email and post about what they feel is “their favorite TED talk of all […]
Carefree August Memories
To kick off the beginning of August – which, for many, represents long, hot, lazy days at the beach – I thought I would share a passage from a beautiful book, called Life Is Full of Sweet Spots by Mary O’Connor: Marine biologist and author Rachel Carson wrote in her classic book, The Edge of […]
Sweet Spots Award Goes To Mommybites Mom!
*The full and original blog on this award can be found on Mary O’Connor’s Life is Full of Sweet Spots blog. Mommybites would like to congratulate fellow Mommybites mom, Homeira Walter, for winning the first annual Sweet Spots Award for her dedication to helping her fellow community in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Below is […]
Family Pets and Photo Shoots
If I tell you something, will you promise not to judge me? I had a professional photo shoot for our pet turtle named Squirtle. Don’t react yet! Here’s how it happened: I got a group email from my friend and professional photographer, Emily Dewan, asking if any of us wanted to volunteer to have her take […]
A Mom’s Most Important Relationship
It occurred to me the other day that in all my years of writing for Mommybites, I have neglected to discuss one of the most important relationships in a parent’s life. Sure, I’ve written about a mom’s relationship with her partner, her children, her friends, her co-workers and even with herself. But in addition to […]
From a Dad to His Little Girl
I would like to share a portion of a letter that a Dad wrote to his daughter about her future husband. He was inspired to write this letter after he read a statistic that one of the top searched phrases on Google is, “How to keep him interested”. Little One, I want to tell you […]