Archive for June, 2011
The GEM Debate: Should Stores Stop Selling Violent Video Games To Minors?
8As you may have read this week, The Supreme Court has just ruled that the State of California cannot ban retailers from selling violent video games to minors (currently the industry imposes its own guidelines on whom to sell and at what age). In the ruling Justice Antonin Scalia argued that video games were like other forms of entertainment and imposing restrictions would be stifling freedom of speech and expression. But is he right?
In the interest of full disclosure let me say, like most More >
Guest Posting: Want to Work in Your Pajamas?
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Five Things To Think About First…
Let me be clear – I love my career.
I am lucky enough to help support my family by working in an industry I love. But as I write this post, it is a beautiful Sunday afternoon. My husband and son are outside playing catch and enjoying June in New England. I am hunched over my desk, eyes slightly bloodshot, hair in a scrunchy trying to remember what our backyard looks like. This is because I am a “Work At Home” Mom.
Every parent has, at some point in time, More >
Breaking News: Good Enough Mother Joins TLC Parentables!
5The GEMpire continues to grow!
Yes, the team here at Good Enough Mother is thrilled to announce another partnership, this time with the parenting website TLC Parentables which is part of the TLC / Discovery family.
I’ll be writing for the TLC Parentables site twice a month, sharing the same sorts of stories I write about here at Good Enough Mother – and of course I’ll always let you know when I have a new piece going live!
I’ll be sharing the Good Enough Mother philosophy with the thousands More >
Guest Posting: A Life Lesson From Oprah!
3Like so many of her viewers I grew up watching The Oprah Winfrey Show on afternoon television. But as I watched Oprah wrap up the 25th season of her daytime talk show, I was flooded with memories of when I first met the queen of daytime talk 25 years ago.
Yes, I actually met Oprah Winfrey. Before she became a billionaire, before the “Oprah Effect”, and before she founded OWN, The Oprah Winfrey Network.
I was a budding television producer just out of college and working at my first television More >
Summer Jobs: Share Your Stories
2As I type this, my son is snoring softly in the room next to me. My daughter won’t stir for another couple of hours and when she does, the first words out of her mouth will be, “I’m hungry.” Not, “Good morning mother, how did you sleep?” In fact, the, “I’m hungry.” proclamation will come with an expectation that I cook for her. Ah yes, the joys of summer!
Along with summer slumber comes the inevitable talk about teens getting jobs, which I have been playing very close attention to lately. I More >
Ask Rene: My Ex Wife’s Dad Is Driving Me Mad!
5Love your advice and hoping you can help me out. I’m a divorced father and my kids mean the world to me. My EX father-in-law gave my 11-year-old son a cell phone as a graduation gift from elementary school. My son is very responsible and like me, a gadget geek, so I don’t have a major problem with him having one. What bothers me is his grandfather never asked my feelings about my son having a cell phone.
I rarely let my kids talk on my cell phone because to me, the jury is still out on More >
