Fashionable Mom Bad or Good?

You’re a mom and you’re still thinking about being fashionable? That’s the kind of response I got from someone I went shopping with. All I did was go shopping with this mom and when we passed a fashion outlet selling fashionable clothing and apparel, I commented that I wanted to get that frilly pink top with splashes of lime green that is flying off the shelves with a 70% discount tag!

Is it wrong to be a mom and still want to be fashionable? In my personal opinion, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to be a fashionable mom… Being mom doesn’t mean that we have to give up our rights to being fashionable, beautiful and healthy. Being mom doesn’t mean that our lives and the entire focus of living have shifted from us to family. Of course, without a smidgen of a doubt, being mom zaps your energy and any mom with a sense of fashion can tell you that it takes a lot to be a fashionable mom.

It already takes so much effort to dress up the kids, imagine trying to find time matching fashionable tops with fashionable skirts and then find the blasted fashionable handbag with the same color and tone to go with the same-colored fashionable shoes! What an effort!

When we used to be single, trying to be in fashion didn’t used to be such an effort, did it? In fact, pulling out fashionable clothing off the shelves and donning them seems to come so naturally to most of us when we are young and looking! Now that we’re not looking anywhere else but at our kids, we find it such an effort just to be fashionable?

And yet, being a fashionable mom is still possible! Absolutely! All it takes is some effort, planning and some common sense. And work at it!!

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It attracts my baby's attention

Babies respond best to toys that are brightly colored and have interesting textures. The bright colors aren't just cheerful; studies have shown that the bright colors can help to stimulate your child's visual development. Anything that provides a large amount of contrast is good because it will teach the baby how to differentiate between colors. There is a reason the Touch and Feel board books by the Dorling Kindersley publishers are so popular. Those are books that have big pictures in bright colors, are durable enough to be chewed on and often feature a new texture for the baby to touch.

Toys that encourage babies to do something are very popular among the under-two-years set. Toys that will reward the baby with a noise when a button is pushed are always a good idea. Babies will grow restless very quickly when given a toy that does not do much, if anything at all. There is, after all, a reason that the teddy bear sits quietly by while you get to listen to 'A sheep says baa-a-a-a-a' for the four thousandth time in a row.

Fun Activities with Kids

With such a cold weather me and my girl spend more time inside. This means that automatically we watch more television, which sometimes i don't want to do. Don't get me wrong I can honestly say that I have become a great fan of Dora the Explorer and Sponge bob thanks to my girl but, I do not want he glue to the TV the whole day. I want her to use her imagination, learn new things and get rid of some energy. So, I schedule many activities with her during the day. In return I see that she have less time to pull each others hair because they are busy having fun. However, she's the only one enjoying herself; she's giving me more space when engaged on individual activities and better yet! I am also having more fun with her. Yes, I have released my inner kid and you can too. Here is a list of fun thing to do with kids at home:

Always have plenty of crayons and a special place for your kids. So, that they can use just for creating their little Picasso drawings. Make sure you praise their efforts. The special place can be a little activity table or even in the floor. Always have at home: construction paper, glue, children scissors etc. have her create paper crafts. For example draw a heart cut it, pasted with glue on construction paper, and add some glue with glitter for decorative purposes. Put on children's music and dance like there is no tomorrow with her. If you are truly in the mood of superstar/goofy then you can pretend to sing with a microphone and have your kids play their toy instruments and vice versa. For special days such as holidays and birthdays make easy to do crafts with your child and give crafts to friends and family as gifts. Don't forget to tell your love ones how much help you got from your little assistants. Bake cookies or cake and let her help you. Challenge your little Einsteins brain with blocks and puzzles. Read stories Play dress up Hide a toy and help her find it by leaving little clues like blues clues cartoon. Play games similar to Simon says, hide and seek etc.

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Man Gets Pregnant

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A trans gender man who kept his female reproductive organs despite his transformation is now five months pregnant and will appear on Oprah Winfrey's television show, the talk show said on Tuesday.

"I'm a person and I have the right to have my own biological child," Thomas Beatie, of Bend, Oregon, said in excerpts from the show, which airs on Thursday.

Skeptics questioned whether the story was an April Fool's hoax, but the Chicago-based talk show said Winfrey interviewed Beatie, his wife Nancy and their obstetrician along with friends of the couple. Beatie also did an interview with People magazine.

Beatie and his wife Nancy recount how she was unable to conceive because of a prior hysterectomy, according to the excerpts.

"If Nancy could get pregnant, I wouldn't be doing this," Beatie said.

The Hawaii-born Beatie, 34, related his struggles with various doctors along with family and friends in a letter published last week by The Advocate, a magazine for gays.

He had chest reconstruction surgery and began taking testosterone, wrote Beatie, who was formerly Tracy Lagondino.

Upon deciding to have a child, he halted bimonthly hormone injections and resumed menstruating, then artificially inseminated himself with anonymous donor sperm from a sperm bank. A first attempt failed.

"When my brother found out about my loss, he said, 'It's a good thing that happened. Who knows what kind of monster it would have been,'" Beatie recalled.

A second attempt was successful, and he expects to deliver a girl around July 3.

"Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire," Beatie wrote.


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