When a child enters school it's quite a commitment for parents. While most moms and dads want to be involved in their offspring's education, it gets hard to pencil in all the activities as the majority of the sports sign-ups, teacher conferences, holiday parties, plays and field trips are during regular academic hours. Some parents set on taking an active role are forced to use all their vacation to attend those "not to be missed" moments. Even stay-at-home parents have to find sitters for their other children to make it to some of these occasions. Do you wish your child's school were more family friendly? Source
Men may age like fine wine, but nothing is more attractive than a woman who struts her stuff after she has hit the half century mark and had children. Today Madonna, mother to Lourdes, Rocco and David, meets that milestone. Happy Birthday to the material girl who now joins the ranks of seasoned celebmamas who have aged gracefully in the public eye and raised offspring! Check out our favorite five talented mums.
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Like most of the country, I have been glued to the Olympic coverage. In the wee hours of Friday morning, I watched 18–year–old American Nastia Liukin earn the title as the third American woman to win the all around gold medal for the US. Holding my breath and grinding my teeth with every approach she made, I rooted her on. But nobody wanted it more than her dad.
Twenty years ago, her father and coach, Valeri Liukin, won two gold medals for the Soviet Union at the 1988 Olympics. He fell short of winning the overall gold medal in the individual competition by one tenth of a point to a fellow countryman. Interestingly enough, one of the commentators for NBC said that papa is known for saying, "Second is the worst on the world; only one color works for this family." Talk about pressure. After she won the gold, he said:
She fix my mistakes. . . I lose by one-tenth of a point to Vladimir, but she fix that.
Luckily she won the medal for herself, her parents and America. I hope this lil lady doesn't let daddy forget who brought home the gold. Source
Stylish mama Gwen Stefani seems to be on the brink of delivering her baby. As with every birth, I wish her a happy and healthy baby and that she bounces back with ease. Having said that, with the gender kept under wraps, I'm sitting on pins and needles wondering if lil Kingston is going to have a little brother or sister.
As store aisles fill with pencils and notebooks and children get ready to head back to school, the sun is setting on another Summer. Wee ones grow up fast these days, especially in Tinseltown, so it's fun to see our favorite lil rascals running wild, catching waves, and being, well, kids. Check out this slideshow of a few of Hollywood's hottest tots and how they kept cool.
It's the oldest trick in the book —a couple of dollars for chores, a gift for good grades, or a lollipop for standing patiently in the check out line. Call it what you will — an incentive, a reward, or a bribe. Many moms and dads have no problem offering their lil darlings something in exchange for a desired behavior, action, or accomplishment.
Are you guilty of giving your kids goodies to get them to do what you want? Source
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