The Montclair Academy of Dance and Laboratory of Music (MADLOM) will hold an Anansi the Spider Peace Quilt Workshop for all ages. it will be a fun afternoon of an afternoon of art and literature, with live drum accompaniment. (Saturday, May 19)
The Parent du Jour project is telling the stories of today’s families—one day, and one parent at a time—and you are invited to participate. Each day they feature a different parent telling, in their own words, how they combine work, family, and life. Dads are featured in our “A Dad a Day” series, moms in “Once Upon a Mom”.
I had the pleasure of being featured as a “Parent du Jour“, as did some of our other writers: Brian Glaser, Stacey Gill, Lisa Davies. And many other moms and dads, both local and international, are featured.
Founded by Lisa Duggan, a South Orange mother, editor, writer and the founder and publisher of The MotherHood Magazine and TheMotherhoodBlog, The Parent du Jour also employs a team of professional individuals, one of them being our own Kristin Wald. Now the team needs your help.
This fall, The Parent du Jour will launch a new education program for parents and begin building out our community-based website(s). Chase & LivingSocial is offering a grant of $250,000 to four small business owners and they want to be one of those four. They need 250 VOTES to be considered. You can vote
Go online here, search for The Parent du Jour in South Orange, NJ and vote. I did.
The latest in touching and inspiring videos. This was uploaded last week by a family who writes:
“Our eight-year-old blind-autistic son Jacob enjoying some fine acoustic guitar by a musician in downtown Lawrence, Kansas on May 13, 2012. Tyler … Thank you so much for letting Jacob feel the music”
The Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health (CAECMH) at Montclair State University will host the Todd Ouida Children’s Foundation Annual Conference, focusing on “Enriching the “Everyday Leaders” Who Support the Mental Health and Well-Being of Infants, Children, and Families” on Wednesday, May 16.
One thing that will inevitably make today’s parents feel old is our kids’ concept of what is a “book.” Is it printed and bound between covers, or digital ink on an e-reader? And if you listen to an audio book, does it count as “reading”? And then there are stories like those in Adventures of Chicken Weebus, Volume 1, by husband-and-wife team Karl Hirsch and Lauren Proctor: family-friendly audio stories that originate in the audio format, rather than being printed books that have been read aloud and recorded. Continue Reading
I don’t have much new to tell you, really I don’t.
I had an insight the other day: Most of what I do as a coach is remind mothers what they already know. Now, this knowledge might be in the deep recesses of their subconscious. Still, somewhere inside they know. In fact, I work with such insightful and accomplished women that a lot of what I do is coach them on how to do less. They don’t need goal-setting or to-do lists. They need space to be who they are. They need reminders to keep it real. They need the safety to say what is really on their minds. What they already know…
“Thank you mom for doing the best you could in not always the best situation. Thank you for raising me to become a strong woman. I love you.” ~ Georgette
a) Beautiful. It’s just a mom breastfeeding her child.
b) Awful. The kid’s too old to be doing that.
c) Offensive and perpetuates the battle between mothers, because of the heading, “Are You Mom Enough?”
d) Just made to cause a stir which it has.
We’re making a Barista Kids Mother’s Day card and we want your photos. It could be your favorite picture of you and your mom, you and your kids, or your beautiful wife and kids.
This is me and my youngest daughter taken four years ago by Christie Adams Photography. She had just turned one, and we had family photos to celebrate. They were taken in the gorgeous Van Vleck Gardens and that day is a wonderful memory.
So email your wonderful memories (jpgs please!) to us here. And check out Baristaville’s beautiful families in our slideshow on Sunday, May 13.
