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Pittsburgh Mom Blog Posts

May 16, 2013 12:11 PM Heather Starr Fiedler
growing-upLast night when my kids got home from school they ran outside to ride their bikes.  They rode down to a friend's house and played for a while.  When they returned we sat down to dinner as a family and the minute dinner was...
May 14, 2013 11:53 AM Heather Starr Fiedler
i-fought-the-slide-and-the-slide-wonI am sitting on my couch right now with a heating pad on my back. I'm suffering from a chest wall injury that was entirely my fault.  You want to know what I did?  I played on something meant for kids. We took the kids to...
May 8, 2013 2:47 AM Heather Starr Fiedler
motherly-adviceMother's Day is coming up this weekend.  That means that everybody everywhere is talking about moms.  I spent several days with my mom this past week while she was in town to run the marathon (how cool is it that my...
May 3, 2013 11:56 AM Heather Starr Fiedler
raising-a-pessimist I'm an optimist. To the very core. I believe in the good in people, always look to the bigger picture and take time every day to be grateful. But somehow I've got a child who is the exact opposite. Ben came into my room in...
Apr 23, 2013 2:39 AM Heather Starr Fiedler
american-daycare Trusting your child with someone else is one of the hardest things that a parent has to do—and in the United States, it’s harder still, because American day care is a mess. About 8.2 million kids—about 40 percent of children...
Apr 19, 2013 2:01 AM Heather Starr Fiedler
when-the-cat-s-away-the-mice-will-have-breakfast-for-dinner Mike is traveling this week for work. He left on Sunday and will be back late tonight.  I did what I usually do when Mike travels, have breakfast for dinner..  I realized that each of us has our own "solo parenting" style. ...
Apr 17, 2013 2:09 AM Heather Starr Fiedler
raising-a-class-clownMatthew is typically my "easy" kid.  He's an extrovert and is very intrinsically motivated. He loves school and above all he loves to please people. Until now, the people he wanted to please most were the adults in his life....

Guest Blog Posts

May 17, 2013 5:58 PM Joline Atkins
when-your-children-hold-you-accountableRecently I finished the Ultimate Reset - a 21 day whole food, three meals a day, vegetarian cleanse/detox.    This is nothing new.   Since 2010 when I started what I thought would be a short-term health/fitness kick, I...
May 3, 2013 2:14 PM Joline Atkins
considering-homeschooling-take-twoWell, I did it. Not what I set out to do, but rather a variation on the plan. My son will be joining the ranks at cyber school next year. Why?  For many of the reasons I stated in my last piece. Mainly, for the ability to...
May 1, 2013 2:56 PM Erin Hill
running-manMy son runs out into parking lots now. Soooo, that’s a lot of fun. Ninety nine percent of the time, I’ve got his hand before we get close to an exit. The other one percent of the time, I KNOW he’s not running out the door...
Apr 26, 2013 12:43 PM Erin Hill
go-outside-and-play-mom  Now that the weather is getting nicer (is it?), I’ll soon be out of my element outside. See, I’m kind of a stay-inside-watch-movies kind of a gal, but I’d hate to keep Lincoln away from beautiful days of playing outside....
Apr 26, 2013 12:31 PM Heather Starr Fiedler
guest-blog-is-it-really-always-about-who-gets-there-firstToday's guest blog comes from mom Angie Ashbery.  She is a stay at home mom of 3, a 7 1/2 year old boy and 5 year old boy/girl twins.  She is also a member of SHOPMOM, South Hills of Pittsburgh Mothers of Multiples. Their life...