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From the Hip

by Family_Moms

Real moms take on real issues

From the Hip

Real moms take on real issues

Would You Rat Out Another Mom’s Kid?

Posted February 22, 2011
Posted Tuesday, February 22, 2011 by Jackie Morgan MacDougall

Kim sat at the dinner table with her son, talking about the day's events when Sam asked his mom if he could repeat a song he had heard at school. The next thing she knew, her seven-year-old boy was singing obscene lyrics, dirty enough to make Lady Gaga blush.

What the...?
Knowing the boy who had turned her kid onto a new genre of musical maelstrom,… Read More
1 person found this post helpful 5 Comments

Top 10 Powerful Working Moms

Posted February 11, 2011
Posted Friday, February 11, 2011 by Jackie Morgan MacDougall

If you're looking for one of those posts that create a working vs. stay-at-home mom battle, keep looking. Because I'm not interested in sparking a war over personal decisions. What I do want to do is shed some light on the challenges of both and maybe create an understanding that can translate into the world of mom relationships.

Today, it's all about the working moms.

… Read More
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Good Mom or Mean Mom? You Decide.

Posted February 07, 2011
Posted Monday, February 7, 2011 by Jackie Morgan MacDougall

"You're a mean, mean girl," my 5-year old son blurted out as he sulked at the breakfast table. In almost seven years of parenting, that was the first time a personal insult had been hurled in my direction.

It was a bittersweet moment. Isn't having your character assassinated by a ticked off preschooler a rite of parenting passage? It was as if the flood gates had… Read More
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The Evolution of Motherhood

Posted February 01, 2011
Posted Tuesday, February 1, 2011 by Jackie Morgan MacDougall

Once upon a time in the '70s, there was a bottle fed, TV-watchin', sugar cereal-eating, occasionally -spanked little girl who walked to school, wore her brothers' hand-me-downs and even spent time babysat by relatives when her parents took much-needed annual vacations.

If this little girl were raised today, there's a good chance her parents would be judged, ridiculed and possibly turned into authorities -- or at… Read More
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Is the Media Killing Our Daughters?

Posted January 18, 2011
Posted Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by Jackie Morgan MacDougall

Did you know that, in the United States alone, as many as ten million women and girls suffer from anorexia and/or bulimia? How about that the death rate for eating disorders is around 20 percent? Or that eighty-six percent of people with eating disorders experience illness by the time they reach 20 years old?

And every day, eating disorders grab hold of more women and… Read More
3 people found this post helpful 2 Comments

Is Your Minivan a Moving Target?

Posted January 14, 2011
Posted Friday January 14, 2011 by Jackie Morgan MacDougall

Wherever I go, there he is. He's practically run my family down in Target's parking lot, cut off other vehicles on the road and parked three cars away from me at the supermarket. I may not know this man, just one of 270,000 people who live in the same community, but I do know what he does for a living, where he shops for food and what he… Read More
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