Welcome to my blog. If you’re a woman, chances are you’re busy. You’ve got work, family, and social obligations and it can feel overwhelming! I know, I’ve been there.
In this blog, I hope to bring together the thoughts of working women and to offer some advice for making your business more profitable and keeping all the “balls in the air”.
Please join me and contribute and share your expertise and experience.
With warm regards,
Laurie Cohen
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I have been getting some great stories and theme ideas from Grandma’s all over the country about their grandchild’s birthday parties. They tell me how they pick the birthday party theme and kid’s birthday supplies and then do something incredibly special like designing this cake!
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Have you done anything special for a kid’s birthday party? Please share your comments with us!
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Last week I was celebrating the birth of my seventh grandson, this week I am overwhelmed by the imminent death of my beloved mother-in-law. How quickly the emotions of life’s cycles change!
In the course of our busy lives, mompreneurs like me, have to stop at a moments notice and deal with each of live’s stages and make it look easy. I’m worried that I might not do a could job. Once more, I am faced with juggling all the balls and not knowing which end is up!
I’d love to hear from you about your thoughts.
My seventh grandchild and fourth grandson was the center of attention at his “Bris” yesterday and wanted to share this ancient tradition with you.
A Bris is much more than a circumcision. The Brit Milah ceremony is meant to be a religious and spiritual event and not simply a surgical or social event. Present at the Bris are the baby, Mom, Dad, Siblings, Chosen GodParents and invited family and friends. The ceremony is conducted by a Mohl (pronunced “moil“), and is shared with the parents, Godparents and Grandparents. During the ceremony the baby is given a Hebrew Name. My daughter honored your brother, who passed away many years ago, and named the baby ” Abel ” which means: “breath” and was Adam and Eve’s second son.
At the service, the host may want to provide kippot (head coverings) for those who wish to wear them. The ceremony is held on the eighth or proper day. It is frequently held in the morning. The Jewish day begins in the evening of the previous day. For example, if your son was born late Tuesday night, his brit will be schedule for the Wednesday of the following week.
While many choose to have a large party for a bris, others prefer a small, private event with just immediate family present.at a minimum you will need a loaf of challah or other bread (or two if it is Shabbat or a holiday), kosher wine, and a kiddush cup. Our grandson’s bris was held at my daughter’s home where my husband and I, along with the other honored grandparents provided a festive table of food for the guests.The meal after a brit milahis considered a seudat mitzvah, a meal with sacred status.
It was truly a joyous and wonderful day!
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An expectant mom gently strokes her expanding belly and fearfully reflects: “Could my developing son or daughter become the next Bernie Madoff cheat? manipulator? narcissist? I love my child deeply, but didn’t Mr. Madoff’s mother love him just as much? Will love alone develop character in my child, or do honesty and integrity require something more?”
Is there anything this mom-to-be can initiate now to ensure that her child acts honestly and decently throughout elementary school, middle school, high school, and beyond? You bet there is! First, she can start mulling over the concept of honesty—at this moment, before her baby is born. How does an honest child affect the level of harmony in the home? the neighborhood? the schoolyard? And, conversely, how does a dishonest child affect these same settings? Is honesty going to be treated as a serious character issue in her home? Or is a dishonest act going to be overlooked because her child is too cute and too young to confront? Is honesty a concept she should start to consider presently, or is it something she can postpone to an ambiguous, far-way time?
When one of my sons was in fifth grade, he literally stole a cookie from the teacher’s cookie jar. While he was hailed as a hero by his brutish buddies, I had a different reaction. It would have been easy for me to overlook his act as bravado. After all, I knew he was just a young boy testing his limits. But it would not have been in his best interest for me to let it pass.
Dishonest children are not trusted by their parents—or anyone else, for that matter. I explained to my son that the theft of the cookie meant that I could no longer trust him to be honest and respectful of other people’s belongings. Awareness registered in his mind. When he tells this story, he identifies that feeling as guilt. But he always is careful to add, “Any guilt I might have felt was not forced upon me by means of a guilt trip; my parents had already shown me in advance that there are many benefits to reap by being a trustworthy person.”
That day I explained to my son that he could gradually earn back my trust (and his skateboard) by showing me evidence of good deeds. As a young boy, he wanted all of the extras he could get. So he quickly learned to regulate his behavior in order to secure my trust.
Pondering the consequences of honesty and dishonesty is an important first step for parents to take. Making honesty a family priority comes next. Moms and dads can establish honesty as a priority by modeling it for their children—every moment of every day. That means they must return extra change when it is mistakenly dropped into their open palms. They must inform the grocery clerk when they are accidently undercharged. They must truthfully tally points during the family’s weekly board game. In short, parents must lead honorable lives.
Our anxious mom-to-be need not worry about raising a swindler or a fraud. With a little bit of forethought and lots of deeds, she can raise the next Bill Gates philanthropist, instead. But in order to raise an honest person, she must be an honest person. She must recognize honesty and trustworthiness as vital components of good character. And she must teach her children consistently, until honesty becomes so natural to them that they no longer feel the need to test the boundaries of decency.
Nesta Aharoni,
My Goodness: My Kids, Cultivating Decency in a Dangerous World
Winner of Mom’s Choice Award
Winner of Living Now Award
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BusyWomenDirect.com, Your Second Website!
I am working 24/7 to get these sites up. My British developer and I have come up with some really great ideas to help you sell your products through BusyWomenDirect.com. I will be offering full pages to sell a product or products on our site and link directly to your shopping cart! It’s like having two websites! I would love to hear your input and ideas. The site is scheduled to launch late in May.
Are you a Mompreneur? Need to bring some more traffic to your site? For Bride And Baby offers inexpensive advertising packages that will give you and your business some great exposure!
For only $50 for two months, you get:
•An article or offer in our Meet Our Mompreneurs section, including a photo, product links, and category links within the ForBrideandBaby site.
• A 125 x 125 rotating banner on our right side navigation on both the website and the blog
• An ad in our Featured Momprenuer Section (these ads also rotate for equal exposure)
• Statistics on number of impressions, clicks and ratio of click to impression
Coming soon, our new website BusyMomsDirect.com will offer Mompreneurs an opportunity to post their products and sell them through our website. For more information, please contact Laurie@ForBrideandBaby.com.
Why Would Anyone Advertise Now?You can barely make ends meet, so why would you want to advertise in this economy? It’s simple. Advertising has never been cheaper and in order to generate new sales, you have to get your name out to more and more visitors in your target market.
Don’t give in to the “economy blues”. Start promoting yourself now and be ready when your customers are!
