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How to Recover Financially and Emotionally After Losing Your Home in a Wildfire
How to Recover Financially and Emotionally After Losing Your Home in a Wildfire
Los Angeles is the birthplace of ModernMom.com, and it’s been heart-wrenching to see so many suffering in our community.
When a natural disaster strikes, the financial losses are staggering, but as moms, our first concern is often for our families. How do we explain this to our kiddos? How do we support our partners while holding ourselves together? How do we even find the strength to ask for help when we feel like we need to do it all? How are we going to get through this? It’s all so overwhelming.
Holiday Budgeting Tips: How Moms Can Prepare Financially for the Season
The holidays can be a magical time filled with family, fun, and festivities, but they can also create financial stress. Between gifts, travel, and gatherings, the holiday season can strain even the most well-planned budget. To help you stay on track, here are 10 practical holiday budgeting tips that will allow you to enjoy the season without the financial hangover. Plus, we’ve included some great tools and affiliate resources to help manage your spending!
Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide
The holidays are here, and so is the joy (and sometimes the stress!) of finding the perfect gifts for everyone on your list. At Modern Mom, we’ve curated the Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide to make your shopping easier and more fun.
The Five Things I Learned In My Rookie Year Being A Working Mom
This Fall, I celebrated my first anniversary of returning to “working mom” after becoming a first-time mother. Ironically, in the same month, I started a new job. In retrospect, it’s not a coincidence. They say the first year is the hardest for significant life changes. It’s a period of unknowns, new obstacles, and inevitable mistakes made along the way. And frankly, since I don’t have much to compare it to at this point, I’d say year one of being a working mom was quite the cluster.
Baby Dressers Recalled Following the Deaths of Three Toddlers
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued recalls for two types of children’s dressers following the deaths of three toddlers possibly resulting from the furniture tipping over onto them. The concern in both cases is that children will open the dresser drawers to scale the furniture, causing it to become unbalanced and fall over, possibly trapping the child.