Babble's Top 100 Mom Blogs of 2011

Magda Pecsenye, a .k.a. Moxie of Ask Moxie, is the anti-expert parenting expert: She’s the easygoing mom-next-door who has an answer for pretty much any question you might ask – and when she doesn’t, she has a vast community of readers who she’s quick to turn to for crowd-sourced support. Her own wealth of knowledge probably comes from the fact that she’s pretty much been through it all. And while she may have her own personal beliefs when it comes to raising children, she stays fairly neutral in her advice, telling moms that, no matter what, “You know your kids best.” And if that weren’t enough to impress, she also writes, with her ex-husband, a blog about co-parenting after divorce at WhenTheFlamesGoUp.com, and maintains, in Babble Voices, the blog Moxieville, where she admits that after all this time doling out parenting advice on the Internet, she’s still stumped by questions about potty training. (Aren’t we all, Magda? Aren’t we all?)

• Tension Increasers If I leave any lasting contribution to the world, it’s my insight into tension increasers vs. tension decreasers and how babies fall asleep. …READ MORE >
• Q&A: Potty training almost 3-year-old girl Wow, it turns out 2011 wasn’t a very funny year for me. This may be as funny as I got, with a poop pun and reverse psychology right at the end. …READ MORE >
• Here now. A response to the Notes From a Dragon Mom piece in the NYT, it got into some personal issues I rarely discuss but that shape me. …READ MORE >

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