
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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Jessica Shyba | Momma’s Gone City

A Bay Area mom moves to NYC so her husband can attend a top dental school. To keep in touch with friends and family 3,000 miles away, she starts a blog, chronicling her adventures in a new city. Momma’s Gone City isn’t always pretty – Shyba is furious when recounting her (ongoing) struggle to provide her son with clean air as a neighbor’s pot smoke wafts into her apartment – but it’s real. And she admits that there are some perks of living in Manhattan, too: Shyba was an invitee to Fashion Week events and thoroughly enjoyed September’s Fashion’s Night Out. We love how the bright lights of the city are growing on her, and we look forward to what the blog future holds for our favorite new Manhattanite!




















Think you might enjoy upbeat, tuneful and some funny songs for kids and moms, and audio book for kids, by award-winning songwriters (one a teacher 20 years)
http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/Gennaro
itune links:
FOR KIDS- reviewed by SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL:
1. BUBBLEBEE: SONGS FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bubblebee-songs-for-young/id134740209
2. BE A BUDDY, NOT A BULLY- Be a Buddy, Not a Bully; Positivity and favorites from the other CDs
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/be-a-buddy-not-a-bully/id291765635
3. THE TALE OF ALADDIN AND BUBBLEBEE…Audio book in rhyme-update of Aladdin legend
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-tale-aladdin-bubblebee/id259945498
FOR MOMS Songs with popular names–also good for special occasions
4. NEW ROMANTIC LOVE SONGS…
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/new-romantic-love-songs-for/id338387293
5. MORE NEW ROMANTIC SONGS…
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/more-new-romantic-songs-for/id338387816
6.GENNARO…FROM COOL TO HOT-Funny songs and love songs
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/gennaro-from-cool-to-hot/id5999824
Entertain and engage your kids in fun and funny word play. http://www.shortythedreamer.com