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Hand-me-up trend hits close to home

For Christmas my daughter got an iPod Touch . Or, better said, I got my iPhone back. It seemed every time I was with my daughter, my iPhone was with her, too. She loaded it full of apps she enjoyed playing...a lot. In addition, she had filled her 8GB...

Published 5 Jan 2010 8:11 AM by Lisa Beatty

Filed under: Parenting, Tweens, technology
Just say no to cough medicine...abuse

As we enter cold and flu season odds are you'll be at the store looking for cough medicine. It will be difficult to get without assistance...and that is a good thing. Turns out 2.4 million teenagers abuse cough medicine every year, and the number...

Published 12 Oct 2009 11:11 AM by Lisa Beatty

Filed under: Family, Parenting, Health, Tweens, Drugs
Anger: the hidden emotion every new mom faces

Over the past few days, I've encountered three different news items related to anger in moms. I am a big believer that when something happens in threes, there is a lesson to be learned and shared. It started with a radio segment on Dr. James Dobson's...

Published 10 Sep 2009 8:44 AM by Lisa Beatty

Filed under: Family, Parenting, Mom
Summer is what we make it now not what we remember it was

Growing up with a stay-at-home mom and a 9-5 working dad my summers were spent outdoors playing with friends. We took the canoe to the middle of the lake and turned it over and swam until we were water-logged. We rode our bikes until our legs were like...

Published 25 Jun 2009 10:19 AM by Lisa Beatty

Filed under: Family, Parenting, Tweens
Caught in the middle of caregiving?

What do you do when you are caught between the care of your children and the care of your aging parents and you find yourself in need of care for you? That's just the situation Kelly Corrigan describes in her debut novel, The Middle Place . The gut...

Published 16 Jun 2009 2:38 PM by Lisa Beatty

Filed under: Family, Parenting, Health
Helping adult children get the health care they need

It is estimated that nearly 14 million young adults between the ages of 19 - 29 lack health insurance. Many of them had been covered by their parents health plan until being dropped due to age limits for dependents. But that is starting to change. Legislation...

Published 23 Mar 2009 6:30 PM by Jane Nation

Filed under: Family, Parenting, Money, Health
Tweens need a chance to give back, too

I don't know if it was the long weekend (my daughter had Friday and Monday off from school) or the dreary weather, but about 4 p.m. on Sunday my usually "happy just to hang out" daughter uttered those words every mom dreads, "I'm...

Published 17 Feb 2009 7:02 PM by Jane Nation

Filed under: Family, Parenting, Tweens, Passions
Mom = Middle of Many

“I feel like I am in the middle of everything—kids, family, friends, work, etc.,” said a 40-year-old mom in Jacksonville. “I’m in the middle of a teenager and her younger siblings,” said another. “One minute I’m...

Published 18 Nov 2008 7:27 PM by Jane Nation

Filed under: Shopping, Parenting, Home, Mom

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Hand-me-up trend hits close to home

Just say no to cough medicine...abuse

Anger: the hidden emotion every new mom faces

Summer is what we make it now not what we remember it was

Caught in the middle of caregiving?

Helping adult children get the health care they need

Tweens need a chance to give back, too

Mom = Middle of Many