I am a single aunt with no kids, but I have been party to conflict and tension between my brother and my mother. My mother helps my brother and his family quite often with babysitting, overnights, transportation, and caring for his kids when my brother and his wife are out of town. My mother attends […]
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Fight Club, Vegas and Parenting
The Mommybites Team and I just got back from a “business trip” to Las Vegas for the ABC Kids Expo. You all know the famous saying, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” So, say for example, one was in Vegas and wore a bedazzled Green Bay Packer’s shirt and sang Journey at the Bourbon […]
Busy Parents Eating Healthfully
I don’t mean to embarrass anyone. Especially not my awesome business partner and partner-in-crime, Mommybites co-founder, Laura Deutsch. But what are friends for? It is my honor and pleasure to tell you that Laura has spent the last year taking classes at the Integrative Institute of Nutrition and is now a certified health coach! Through […]
Ask Dr. Gramma Karen: The Gogos of Swaziland
Dear readers, As we in the United States celebrate National Grandparents Day on Sunday, September 13, I thought this would be an appropriate time for my friend, Hannah Laufer-Rottman, to talk about the important role the grandmothers, known as the Gogos, are playing in Swaziland, a country in Africa. (Gogo is an honorific title that is […]
Testing and Tired Toddlers: Making Sleep a Priority
I have a toddler at the moment. He’s two. He likes to test. He likes to look right at me as he’s doing something he knows he shouldn’t. Sometimes he even gives me a little smirk. Normal toddler behavior, yes. But it can be really trying. We all know about the Terrible Twos, and now […]
If We Are There To Live It
Tomorrow is the 14-year anniversary of 9/11. In honor of all those who lost loved ones (my husband’s family included – we love and miss you, Todd Ouida), and in honor of all the brave servicemen and women who have died protecting this country, I would like to share a poem that my friend Julie recently […]
Why Won’t My Kid Sit at Dinner?
My kid just WON’T sit at dinner. It is making me crazy. I want to eat and relax, not chase her around. What can I do? How long is dinner? We have to be sure that we are not expecting too much. The average toddler or young child can only sit at dinner for about […]
Grandmother Angry about Gaining Two More Grandchildren
My son, who has custody of his two children (a girl and a boy), is going to marry a woman with two girls of her own. The four children are all between the ages of 9 and 12. My husband and I have been told that we must treat these two girls the same as […]