Top 50 Mom Blogs, 2010
Babble's inaugural Top 50 Mom Blogger list began by saying that "mom bloggers make a difference." Well, it's 2010 now, and you'd have to be under a parenting stone not to know that already. Not only do they make "a" difference, but for many moms in cities and towns and burbs nationwide they make the difference, providing information, LOLs, "I've-been-there-sister" reassurance, and perhaps more than anything, the camaraderie that helps get you through the long, breakfast-till-you-put-them-down day.
As a collective, mom bloggers have given the previously too closed, too private, too go-through-it-alone experience of motherhood a voice. And does that voice travel! From major media figures including Lisa Belkin of the New York Times blog Motherlode to ma-without-pop operations such as Bacon Is My Enemy, these virtual sisters are broadcasting their real-mom experiences loud and clear.
And we couldn't be more happy to help them be heard. So for this year's Top 50, we had a group of mom blogger/parenting experts make their choices, then we dug over the data and compiled the 50 mom bloggers you should be following for 2010.
It was tough to trim it to 50, but that's where you come in. Please, please, nominate your favorites, too! Let the world know just how many and how great the mom bloggers out there are. We're all one big community, and the better we know each other, the more we all benefit. Look for your nominations on our 2011 list next year and, in the meantime, read, write, and link up. We're all in it together!
- The Babble Editors
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Karen Walrond | Chookooloonks
One of our favoroite best-designed blogs of 2010, Chookooloonks’ Karen Walrond has created a gorgeously enticing website that continues to awe us with exquisite photography (just take a look at the stunning pictures in The Water Project) and boost our spirits with unfaltering positivity. In February, she created her own version of a bucket list and she documents what she’s accomplished so far in photographs and blog posts.
A native of Trinidad and Tobago, and a mother of an adopted daughter, Walrond encourages women of all races, shapes and sizes to embrace the beauty within them. It is physically impossible to look at Chookooloonks without smiling, and Karen Walrond has mastered the art of sending her readers away feeling fulfilled and happy.
Hope youil like the upbeat, tuneful songs of all kinds for kids and moms by award-winning songwriters (one taught 20 years), and audio book in rhyme.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/gennaro/id5999799
http://music.napster.com/artist.htm?id=11579687
http://www.cdbaby.com/artist/Gennaro
FOR KIDS- reviewed by SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
1. BUBBLEBEE: SONGS FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART Includes catchy Ill Call You If I Need a Big Mess
2. THE TALE OF ALADDIN AND BUBBLEBEE…
Audio book for kidsupdate of Aladdin legend, in rhyme
3. BE A BUDDY, NOT A BULLY
Kids songs-Be a Buddy, Not a Bully; Positivity and favorites from the other CDs
FOR MOMS
4.NEW ROMANTIC LOVE SONGS…
5.MORE NEW ROMANTIC SONGS…
Songs for special occasions with popular girls names
6.GENNARO…FROM COOL TO HOT
Funny songs (Politicians Polka; A Moose with Moxie)
Love songs
Song Hub City Hop to be in a movie
Happy Easter
http://www.cellphonesforkids.net/2011/04/happy-easter.html
Hello Karen,
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Thank you,
Judith
Entertain and engage your kids in fun and funny word play. http://www.shortythedreamer.com