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A Wake Up Call (All Puns Intended)

November 6, 2017 by not your average mom 3 Comments

I had an a-ha moment yesterday. Why I need to be slammed over the head with these things repeatedly before I get them, I don’t know. But that’s how it seems to work for me. I have a history of depression.  Fifteen or so years ago, I was hospitalized (for the first time) and consequently […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: depression, exhaustion, facebook, Instagram, phone, quality time, sleep, television, TV, zamboni

A Reminder To All Moms (And Dads)

February 2, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Dear Moms (And Dads), I thought maybe you could use a reminder. Because last night I  had one of those nights and I realized that I needed one, too. Whatever that thing is you are freaking out over right now? Um… It’s not that big a deal. Oh, wait… Your thing is different? Your thing […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: birthday, chill, jerry seinfeld, kids, listen, opportunities, positive discipline, television, trophy

We all love This Is Us. And this is why.

January 11, 2017 by not your average mom 5 Comments

There’s a pretty good chance you have heard about the television show This Is Us. Everyone is talking about it. Because just about everyone is watching it. I was out of the loop until about two weeks ago when I got sucked in. And I got sucked in hard. I watched the first ten episodes in […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Parenting Tagged With: television, this is us

Reading this could save you $50 a month. At least. Seriously.

January 10, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

When money started to get super tight (or nonexistent) for us a couple years ago, cable TV was one of the first things we got rid of. Quitting cable cold turkey was not as difficult as I thought it would be. And we still had Netflix, so we were able to watch TV shows. We […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Timesavers, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: basketball, cable, package, television, this is us, TV

21 days to establish a new habit, right? WRONG!

January 1, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

We’ve all seen that quote — So that’s just three weeks. Right? Wrong! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!!! That quote — the one that says it takes 21 days to form a new habit — is actually kind of a misquote. A quote that has mutated. Back in the 1950’s, a plastic surgeon named Maxwell Maltz noticed a […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: couch, dining room, dinner, eating, goal, goals, habit, habits, New Years, Resolutions, television

Dear NYAM — How much TV do you let a 4-year-old watch?

December 12, 2016 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

A couple weeks ago I got a message from a reader asking me about kids and screen time: How much, if any, TV/iPad do you let a 4 year old watch? I have a lot of anxiety in my personality and it stresses me out if he watches an hour after school, but I also […]

Filed Under: Advice Tagged With: iPad, Number 7, Sesame Street, technology, television, televisions, TV

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