Archive - November, 2009

Denise Jonas at a Brooklyn iMOM Morning

 

What can I say?  Denise is wonderful.  She is totally sincere in her desire to encourage mothers.  She is a real mom, and does not pretend to be perfect in any way.  Read her 10 Things Motherhood Has Taught Me, and look for more to come about the woman who stops her family’s warp speed world to be the mom.

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Put In the Rug Time

“Just a minute!  No, no, not now… Tomorrow… We’ll do that another day…Mommy’s busy, maybe later.” Spontaneity is hard to come by in our busy world, but it’s so important to our kids.  Freedom from the cares of the world is the very essence of childhood.  When we respond to their spontaneity, and take a few minutes with them just to play, those moments develop over time into great childhood memories. 

I recently spent a day in New York with a very busy mom, Denise Jonas, iMOM ambassador and mother of the Jonas Brothers.  While raising her four sons, she learned over the years that no matter how busy their family was, her boys needed to play with her and her husband.  Spontaneous play in her house developed into something Denise called “rug time”…

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