
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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Dawn Friedman | This Woman’s Work

Though she’s been a blogger for nearly a decade, Dawn Friedman joins the Babble Top 50 List with a swirl of well-written and sometimes controversial posts. A graduate student and mom of two – one by adoption – Friedman is an outspoken supporter of homeschooling. She has also become the mom blogger leading the discussion about open adoptions, providing commentary on national cases and sharing the interesting adoption-related situations that come up in her own life (for example, she argues with her daughter’s birth mother over whether or not to pierce her daughter’s ears). She is ridiculously smart, and even if you don’t agree with her, you can’t ignore her. For those looking for support regarding adoption, Friedman supplies must-read tips and information.



















Hope you’ll like these upbeat, tuneful CDs for moms & kids by award-winning songwriters (one taught 20 years), & audio book. Kids’ CDs reviewed by SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/Gennaro
FOR KIDS up to 9 years old
1.BUBBLEBEE: SONGS FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bubblebee-songs-for-young/id134740209
2.TALE OF ALADDIN & BUBBLEBEE…
Audio book in rhyme-update of Aladdin legend
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-tale-aladdin-bubblebee/id259945498
3.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
FOR MOMS Songs with popular girls names-good for parties:
4.NEW ROMANTIC LOVE SONGS FOR JESSICA, ASHLEY, EMILY, etc..
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/new-romantic-love-songs-for/id338387293
5. MORE NEW ROMANTIC SONGS FOR ANNA, AMBER, SHELBY, etc.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/more-new-romantic-songs-for/id338387816
6.GENNARO…FROM COOL TO HOT
Funny songs:”Politicians Polka;” “A Moose with Moxie” “Hub City Hop” (in a movie), and Love songs
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/gennaro-from-cool-to-hot/id5999824
Fell out of bed fenelig down. This has brightened my day!
Entertain and engage your kids in fun and funny word play. http://www.shortythedreamer.com
PRACTICAL PARENTING TIPS by Vicki Lansky:New Edition
http://www.practicalparenting.com (Check out topics covered in this new edition, a sample page and Table of Contents.)
Learn from the voice of experienced parents. This newly updated classic compendium has sold over 700,000 since its first edition in 1980. (The first 4 editions were published by Meadowbrook Press. This 5th edition is the first for Book Peddlers.) Also available as an eBook for $9.95
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