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A Bad Economy Can Be a Great Time to Start a Small Business!

Intro note: I am thrilled and honored to join the team of ModernMom.com bloggers! I look forward to being your Business BFF and blogging about launching a product idea, starting your own home based business, being a CEO and an MOM, specifics about running a small business, de-stressing from work so you can be present as a mom, and many other biz related topics. I welcome any questions and comments & look forward to connecting with you!

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10 Ways To Help Your Child Become A Better Writer

If your kids are like mine, they don’t take well to their parents giving them advice on much of anything — academics, athletics, you name it. In many ways, I am thankful for this. My kids are independent and have learned to do their homework on their own.But I had to step in recently to help my middle-schooler with a term paper that needed a lot of help. I started with my red pen …

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Quick, Hide The Knives

Two articles in the New York Times and the Atlantic Monthly describe new research that unearths the phenomena of womens so-called indirect aggression.Unfortunately, the findings are described in distinctly negative terms. The Evolution of Bitchiness, is the Atlantics title.A Cold War Fought by Women is the slightly less derogatory title chosen by the Times.These august publications are two of the oldest, WASPiest, Harvard-est publications in the nation, devoured by our …