Parenting in a Celebrity-Drive Society.
If you’ve had ambivalent feelings about Marilyn Monroe’s iconic status in our celebrity-driven society, then My Week with Marilyn will cement them one way or the other; you’ll either understand her much-publicized crumbling personality, or you will develop even more contradictory emotions about the real person behind the blond bombshell. My Week with Marilyn directed [...]
“You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.” ~ Barbara Hall School. Is. Over. And so are the sports banquets, award ceremonies, promotions, graduations and a host of other end-of-year accolades that beckon to let you know how well (or not) [...]
It’s apparent the folks over at MTV are going to keep testing the boundaries of their contentious programming. They’ve enjoyed virtually no consequences by walking the fence of inappropriate teenage content, and have been successful at luring desperate advertises wanting to target this particular demographic . Or so it seemed until producers decided to copy a racy British show called Skins and broadcast the MTV version (rated TV-MA) in the USA.
Promises2Kids Announces Concert with Rock Legends Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo May 11, 2010 – The Honorable Susan Golding, CEO and president of Promises2Kids announces the foundation's annual outdoor Summer Concert Gala featuring four-time GRAMMY(r) Award-winning artist Pat Benatar accompanied by renowned guitarist Neil Giraldo on Wed., June 2 from 6:30 to 10:00 p.m. at [...]
This is Part I of a multi-part post.
Before blogs were commonplace or even the Internet, I was the mother with 'that child'. Yes, the one with the child screaming at the top of her lungs while shopping at Target; the one you looked at in horror when the kid flailed on the ground because she demanded to have every last sweet at the check-out stand. Boy, I wish blogs had existed back in my early parenting days – then I would have known I wasn't the only one who'd spawned a difficult child.
