Thanks to everyone who voted for my video last month in Got Milk's "Latte Love" mom blog contest. I was a Top 20 finalist out of hundreds of entries, so thank you! Though I did not win the grand prize trip to NYC to meet the next Milk Mustache celebrity, I did win free milk for a month. Congrats to winner Cassie Wasem.
Every day, I tell myself I will place and enforce a concrete limit on my sons' electronic game time (Wii, iTouch, cell phone and website games). Now, there's another reason to movitate me to do so. Michigan State University researchers found that early and preteen middle schoolers who played more video games were more likely to hold negative views of their parents. Could this be why my six-year old talks back so much? This Vancouver Sun article tells us more - motivation to really put those time restrictions in place.
Since her childhood days touting pigtails and well-pronounced ad copy as she auditioned for television commercials, Erin understood the power of communications. Today, Erin uses the written word to move readers and make things "make sense." She is a blogger for Huffington Post Divorce and her parenting articles appear on www.Care.com, Washington Parent magazine, Potomac Patch and others. Her articles have been published in The New York Post, Bethesda Magazine, Hybrid Mom, TangoMag.com, UrbanTurf.com and others. Erin lives in the Washington, DC area with her sons, seven and ten and Pug dog, Rizzo.
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