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How to Become a Stay-at-Home Mom/Dad in 5 Not at all Easy Steps

Featuredby Jean Brown 14 Comments

I love being a stay-at-home mom. It’s definitely not easy. It’s exhausting, messy, maddening, solitary (and did I say exhausting?). It’s really and truly the most taxing and tiring job […]

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Life Hacks, My Story, Parenthood

How Often do You Praise Yourself?

Featuredby Jean Brown 15 Comments

One recent afternoon, Linden was (suprisingly) contentedly sitting in her stroller on the way home from the park. We passed by another mom and child combo, and the mother looked […]

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Parenthood

Happy Father’s Day!

June 13, 2014by Jean Brown 4 Comments

One of my favorite little memories of my dad’s dad-wisdom in action was his feelings on me buying my first Discman (for the young’uns: a Discman was like a primitive […]

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Parenthood

“Look Up:” The viral video reminding us that Real Life is not the pings from our phone

May 7, 2014by Jean Brown 8 Comments

Have you seen this one? Gary Turk’s short film depicts the sentiments of the poem that acts as narration. The poem discusses the fact that despite how “connected” we are by our […]

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Challenges, Parenthood

Conversations with My Mom, On Her Self-Styled Life (Part 1)

May 2, 2014by Jean Brown 2 Comments

Originally posted on the self-styled life:
My Mom is awesome. She is a constant example to me as I try to create my own self-styled life—such a strong example, in…

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