productive parenting

being a mom is hard. being a GOOD mom is harder still.
as a stay at home mom, i treasure all my mom friends but i am really so very thankful for the other stay at home moms. the ones who make me feel sane, or who can relate when things get crazy and all we can do is wait til naptime to take a breather. high on my list of favorite mom friends is anna. we don't see each other that often, unfortunately. maybe that has something to do with the fact that between the two of us, we have six kids under four years old. SIX KIDS UNDER FOUR.

anna is an awesome mom with some really great kids. and she's hilarious. don't believe me? then go to her blog and read about how she put her 3 month old in timeout. :)

anyway, anna is writing and blogging for a very cool website called productive parenting. it's a website FULL of quick and easy activities to do with your kids. and i love it. anna asked me if she could interview me for the productive parenting blog and i was thrilled to be a part of it. check my answers out here:
http://productiveparenting-emily.blogspot.com/2011/06/mom-feature-meet-melanie.html

and then go check out the website here:
http://www.productiveparenting.com/

i can't wait to use some of the activities i've read about!

Offsprung

There is a new online parenting/magazine/blog collective called www.offsprung.com. Or as they state it on the website: "A humor magazine! And community! About parenting! On the Internet! Offsprung is all these things, and so many more. Welcome to the perfect online antidote to a parenting culture gone barking mad"

I just started toaking a look at it, and it's basically a collection of about 12 bloggers, including Neal Pollack, the author of AlternaDad. I haven't yet looked at it enough to vouch for it's content, but thought i'd share it along for others to take a look at. In only it's first week, it got a mention in USA Today