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Breakfast in Bed is Nice, but a Seat at the Table is Invaluable.

May 11, 2012
Meet Annie Spiegelman, a Bay Area mom who blogs as " The Dirt Diva " on matters of love, gardening, and cultivating a healthy planet. Just in time for Mother's Day, Annie shares her interview with Rachel's Network Co-Director Laurie Syms on the evidence that women in Congress, regardless of party,...
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Miriam Feffer
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TIME: Ask the RIGHT questions!

May 11, 2012
TIME Magazine just became another self-appointed arbiter of “Mommy Judgment” by trying to inflame the Mommy Wars with their exploitative cover of a young mother standing like a mudflap girl and breastfeeding her 3, maybe 4 year old. The byline: “Are you Mom enough?” The answer is, as soon as you...
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Genevieve Colvin
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Need a laugh? Tweets encouraging you to start your Mother's Day weekend right!

May 11, 2012
"Your mom is so reasonable, all our punishments fit our crimes!" momsdaycard.com — Jake Brewer (@jakebrewer) May 11, 2012 Love this. RT @ fissionstrategy : Looking 4 the perfect e-card 4 #MothersDay ? @ MomsRising has got u covered: momsdaycard.com/index2.php — Jay Carmona (@jaycarmona) May 11,...
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Anita Sarah Jackson
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Toddler Thursday: Kid Crafts and Recipes for Mother's Day!

May 10, 2012
Welcome to Toddler Thursdays! Every Thursday, visit the MomsRising blog for crafts and recipes for toddlers and preschoolers, as well as news and tips on childcare and early education. Photo credit: Photo by Flickr user mali mish This week, we're celebrating Mother's Day with easy homemade gift...
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Claire Moshenberg
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Moms Help Create a Bully Free World

May 10, 2012
When we put our children on the bus or drop them off at school all we really want is for them to learn, to be safe and to return home ready to turn around and do it again – for thirteen years! We also hope they really like it. I don’t think many of us even stop to think about the actual 420 minutes...
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Laura Kaloi

This Mother's Day, Stand Up for Expecting Moms

May 10, 2012
rue or False: 1) A pregnant woman can be fired for carrying a water bottle on the job to stay hydrated and prevent bladder infections. 2) A pregnant activity director at a nursing home can be terminated because she requires help with some physically strenuous aspects of her job to prevent having...
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Dina Bakst
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Celebrating Mother's Day, Networked Moms & Powerful Writing

May 10, 2012
This Mother's Day we're celebrating the fact that moms are now networked and engaged in ways unimaginable just a decade ago. More than 36 million women are now active in the blogosphere, either publishing or reading blogs. And, by the end of this year, more than 90 percent of moms with kids under...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Good News on Children’s Health for Mother’s Day!

May 10, 2012
Just in time for Mother’s Day, some good news for our nation’s children and their parents: More children have health insurance coverage today than at any point in our nation’s history! Despite the severe economic downturn, continued erosion of employer sponsored coverage, and political stalemate in...
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Donna Norton
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VIDEO: We made something just for you :)

May 10, 2012
Do your kids argue? Or did they when they were younger? Here's a hilarious Mother's Day fantasy just for you! Happy nearly Mother's Day!!! - Kristin, Joan, Monifa, Elisa, Ashley, Nanette, Sarah, Julie, Sarah, Anita, Ruth, Claire, Donna, Mary, and Gloria
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I Need My Husband's Permission?!

May 9, 2012
In 1974, Congresswoman Bella Abzug realized something: she could make laws in Congress, but she couldn’t get her own credit card without her husband’s permission. Now, almost 40 years after Congresswoman Abzug fought for - and won - the rights of women to get their own credit, that right is being...
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Holly McCall

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