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My Favorite Celebrity “Failures”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill Feeling discouraged sometimes? Do your dreams take wings and fly away, leaving you grounded for the time being? It happens to all of us and when it does, it’s important to remember that success is not always success, nor…
Help! My Sleepless Toddler Is Breaking Me!
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. – Ralph Waldo EmersonI thought I had it down. Both my babies had been such perfect textbook sleepers, Harvey Karp would have been proud. Swaddle and soothe worked like a charm, as if Sleeping Beauty herself watched over their dreams.But now its payback. My children have become insomniac toddlers. Relentless. Or as my pediatrician calls it …
Parenting and Perseverance: Why Failure is Crucial to Success
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. – Einstein When my son was six months old, I took him to a Mommy and Me class, which was really about parent training: how to observe your child, rather than do things for him – even though Alessio could barely sit up and certainly refused to crawl.
Beauty, Redefined: Changing Our Perception of the “Perfect” Shape
“Don’t read beauty magazines. . . they will only make you feel ugly.” ~Kurt Vonnegut Almost every woman I know has self-esteem issues, especially when it comes to their bodies.
Finding Beauty in Imperfection
Seven a.m.- I throw open the curtains in my sons room. Alessio, who is nearly 2, sits up in his bed and shouts, Hello world! Courage in his voice, happy expectation. A once-in-a-lifetime day.