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2. MSN’s Tips for 2012
3. About.com’s Consolidated Tips
4. AvidCareerist Blog
5. LinkedIn Job Search Tips

1. Events are held indoors- no sunscreen? no umbrella? no problem.

2. Kids only get a medal or ribbon if they place and sometimes it stings. Many sports hand out medals and trophies for just showing up, not USA Gymnastics.

3. The self-discipline, strength and balance to accomplish a new move, qualify for a meet or achieve a higher score makes for very proud parents.

It’s good discipline for kids to make their beds every day but parents need beds ready for that post Mocha-ice-blended sugar rush crash.

Save it for your mother. Delish!

Anthony Weiner shedding his lizard skin benefits women who want to run for office. Christiane makes a great argument.

Christiane Amanpour speaks Persian, French and probably a dozen other languages sans frozen forehead. She interviews world leaders and horrid terrorists all with a furrowed brow and big brain.  She’s a mom of an 11-year-old and I have a feeling that she’s packing a gun – no acting up on playdates at THAT house.

Evidence shows Google searches on Chloroform and neck breaking six months prior to Caylee Anthony’s mother calling 911 to report a foul smell in her daughter’s car.

My parents told me I’d never get away with anything because God was watching. I tell my child Google is watching.

 

I cried when my kid scored her first soccer goal at age 6.  I called my folks in shock when she scored 100 percent on the state math exam.  But, even better than watching her on stage at the Santa Monica Playhouse; even better than attending the premiere of The Reaping with my sister who acts in the movie, is the rush of completing my own goals.

My parental partners in crime, you know I’m not talking selfish here but satisfaction.  I can barely get my flabby ass to the gym once a week so the fact that I just passed the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam, a 200-question, 4-hour global certification exam, after stewing about formulas and definitions and practice tests, I’m digging myself:

• I really rock, I’m not just reading about how I can rock in <i>Oprah</i>.

• Hells yeah!

• Unstoppable.

• My kid is proud of <u>me</u>.

• What’s Next?

Whoever said “do something once and do it right” probably enjoyed the luxury of showering in peace, epiphanies sprouting forth from a lush, steamed-out brain.

For those of us who struggle to find time to go to the bathroom, it’s a challenge to write down the idea, create the list or even to make the phone call that moves us forward. But, although we live in disconnected, frenetic and distracting times, this is still no excuse.

Whether it’s playing on a softball team, taking a cooking class, starting a side business or completing a certification exam that will further our careers- let’s begin again until it’s done.

Even as Kyron Horman’s father Kaine attended back-to-school night and Desiree Young, his mother, prepares for an 8th birthday party for him this week, Terri Moulton Horman (second from right in this AP photo) says nothing more about what happened after she dropped him off at school in June of this year.

Terri Moulton Horman needs to tell the truth.