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When I'm not freaking out about my daughter's entry into kindergarten, I'm trying to do our back-to-school shopping little by little. While I do fondly recall hitting the stores for bargins and I *love* back-to-school shopping, I just don't want to do it all at once this year. This week's Chicago Parent prize is a pack from Mabel's Labels. GO ...

That's what my five-year-old daughter said as her daddy was rushing us to the basement on Monday night. She then burst into tears from fear. Jennifer, our resident parenting professional, blogged that we shouldn't pretend to not be scared around our kids. That we need to reassure them that we're scared too and that their fear isn't silly. *sigh* ...

First, welcome to any new readers who saw my last post highlighted in this month's issue of Chicago Parent! Next...the wrap-up for the first weekend of training for the Progressive Women's Voices program. It was a blast and so tiring! Sadly Carmen & Kristin had prior commitments and had to miss the opening weekend. But the women who were ...

Sometime late last year a friend emailed me a description of a new program being offered through the Women's Media Center. It's called Progressive Women's Voices and it is a media training and spokesperson program to connect media professionals with smart, media-savvy women experts in a variety of fields. Funded primarily by a generous ...

The hardest part about raising a daughter has been watching my mouth. I swear a lot. I use the F-word A LOT. I also take almost any opening I get to say something negative about my body.''Oh these chicken breasts are huge!'' I bet they could at least button their shirt. As women, I think we all do this. As a woman who isn't a size 8 much ...

Saturday ushers in March and the hope that spring will overcome winter, some televised spring training games, Shamrock shakes, and of course, notification from the Chicago Public School lottery and all those privates & parochial schools on whether or not your child was selected. All of this is because Chicago Public Schools have school choice. ...

I'm a child of the '80s and thus grew up in the hey day of MTV. You know, when they actually showed music videos and the non-music shows were related to music (Remote Control 4EVER). So I logged more than my fair of time watching, acting out music videos and yes one of my favorites is ''Love is a Battlefield.''A few years ago I heard of a new ...

I haven't gotten my paczki yet, but we did vote this morning. There is a blurry photo of my daughter holding up our ''Thank you for voting'' receipt. We all got up extra early because I feared that with the snow coming in the evening others might wake early to connect the arrow and vote. But nope, no wait when we got there and it was quick & ...

Despite the weather reports calling for ''Day After Tomorrow'' storms, I'm headed up to Wisconsin this afternoon. Why in the world would I do that? To attend a White House Project Go Run campaign training. What is Go Run? Go Run is an annual training program started in 2005. Go Run is a weekend long training designed to demystify the political ...

For the record, I'm not supporting anyone in the 2008 election at this point. I'm watching, reading, and trying to decide between a few candidates. I am voting for a Democrat, but occasionally like what I hear from a few GOP candidates. Today thou is a whole 'nother story. In today's The Swamp, Sen. Obama rips into former-MA Gov. ...