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Five frugal ways to give back this holiday season

Despite my frantic pleading with my calendar to tell me something else, Thanksgiving is only a week away... and after that, it's the breakneck-pace Holiday Season until we hit 2010. It's the most wonderful frantic time of the year, and often one that ...

From MIR KAMIN, BlogHer,  18 Nov 2009

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Five easy ways to keep Thanksgiving frugal

Thanksgiving will be here before we know it, and dare I say that only in American could a day meant to celebrate bounty and thankfulness much more commonly devolve into stress and overspending. True, it may be the norm, but it doesn't have to be -- why ...

From MIR KAMIN, BlogHer,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Martha Stewart

Thank teachers without emptying your wallet

'Tis the season for those of us whose children tromp off to school two or three or five times a week to start thinking about the dreaded holiday teacher gifts. Why dreaded? Do we not appreciate our teachers? I know I can't speak for every parent, but I ...

From MIR KAMIN, BlogHer,  4 Nov 2009

Giving all kids self-esteem, not entitlement

It used to be that parental praise was doled out sparingly, if at all. Our parents and grandparents didn't expect their folks to constantly tell them what a good job they were doing or how great they were; that's simply not what was done. And then pop ...

From MIR KAMIN, BlogHer,  21 Oct 2009

Public school, backpacks and lockers (oh my)

My daughter started middle school this year. I'm only exaggerating a little when I tell you that I spent the first two weeks in a permanent clench, memories of my own awkward middle school years washing over me in an unexpected wave of PTSD. But the ...

From MIR KAMIN, BlogHer,  14 Oct 2009

Time for Halloween parties at school (maybe)

There's no denying we're truly into October, now (no matter what the 80-degree temps here in Georgia may feel like), and that means that those of us with kids in school are starting to receive Halloween Paperwork. For us, it's requests for help with ...

From MIR KAMIN, BlogHer,  8 Oct 2009

Where do you stand on Roman Polanski?

(David Letterman is the third entertainment icon to be thrust into the spotlight for sexual misconduct.) You can read the trial transcript, better yet here's your Cliff Notes version of the facts in this case: In 1977, 13-year-old Samantha Geimer was ...

From MIR KAMIN, BlogHer,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Roman Polanski,  Whoopi Goldberg,  The View,  David Letterman,  Jack Nicholson

Mackenzie Phillips: Incest, drugs, fame and blame

Unless you were living under a rock last week, you likely either saw or heard that Mackenzie Phillips was on Oprah, discussing her upcoming book, High on Arrival, and what Phillips claims was the dark secret her family tried to ignore for years: That ...

From MIR KAMIN, BlogHer,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Mackenzie Phillips,  John Phillips,  Facebook Inc.

The water in Atlanta isn't done rising yet

When I moved to the Atlanta area two and a half years ago, it became a running joke between me and my husband that I'd come south for the weather rather than for him. After spending most of my life in the northeast, Georgia seemed like paradise. No ...

From MIR KAMIN, BlogHer,  22 Sep 2009

Please don't look at the children

Lenore Skenazy has been stirring up the parenting world with her book Free-Range Kids and blog of the same name for quite a while, now -- I first wrote about her about eighteen months ago, when she allowed her nine-year-old to ride the subway alone. ...

From MIR KAMIN, BlogHer,  18 Sep 2009

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