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Memoir Mondays: Growing Up Fast

by Renée Posted on May 21, 2012

On Monday evenings I meet with a group of friends and we do writing exercises from Natalie Goldberg’s Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir. Each Monday, this blog will feature a reworking of one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir | Tagged appearance, children, dress, earrings, fashion, marketing, memoir, Natalie Goldberg, Old Friend from Far Away, parenting, party, play, role models, writing | Comments Off

Paying Myself First: My Screen-Free Week 2012

by Renée Posted on May 8, 2012

I was introduced to Screen-Free Week by the New Road Map Foundation and the Center for a New American Dream, both of which I discovered through Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez’s wonderful book Your Money or Your Life. I did … Continue reading →

Posted in Media | Tagged advertising, Artist's Way, blogs, books, cell phone, Center for a New American Dream, children, chores, compulsion, creativity, email, Facebook, family, housekeeping, Internet, Joe Dominguez, magazines, marketing, media, media deprivation, New Road Map Foundation, newspapers, pay yourself first, play, quality time, radio, reading deprivation, screen-free week, social media, technology, text, time management, Vicki Robin, Your Money or Your Life | Comments Off

Children & Electronic Media

by Renée Posted on May 2, 2012

It’s Screen-Free Week, and this is the second year I’m participating. In lieu of regular blog posts this week, I’ll be posting informational materials from the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood that sponsors this event (prepared a week in advance). … Continue reading →

Posted in Media, Parenting | Tagged addiction, advertising, boredom, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, children, compulsion, imagination, marketing, Media and Young Children Action Guide (eighth edition), obsession, play, screen, screen time, screen-free week, sex, Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children's Entertainment, TRUCE, violence, virtual | Comments Off

Memoir Mondays: Kindergarten

by Renée Posted on April 16, 2012

On Monday evenings I meet with a group of friends and we do writing exercises from Natalie Goldberg’s Old Friend from Far Away: How to Write a Memoir. Each Monday, this blog will feature a reworking of one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir | Tagged Catholic school, cats, childhood, Christmas, cooking, Easter, football, Halloween, Kung Fu Fighting, Massachusetts, memoir, memories, Merrymead farm, Necco wafers, parenting, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Flyers, play, relationships, reminiscing, scarlet fever, school, stories | Comments Off

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