Are you looking for good parenting blogs? Here are some top picks.
Parentopia: This parenting blog is maintained by Devra Renner and Aviva Pflock, co-authors of the award winning book: Mommy Guilt: Learn to Worry Less, Focus on What Matters Most, and Raise Happier Kids
Parentopia believes that an eclectic collection of information is required in order for a parent to feel effective and confident. Through this parenting blog, parents are encouraged to take a look at ideas that they may have initially rejected, while also gleaning ideas from sources they immediately are drawn towards.
Their view is that all parenting methods can have value, even seemingly weird and wacky ones, because they help us to figure out what will work and what won’t in our own family.
MojoMom: The Mojo Mom parenting blog has been published continuously since 2003. It is the blog of Amy Tiemann, PhD, author of the award-winning book Mojo Mom: Nurturing Your Self While Raising a Family
The premise of her concept “mojo mom” is the recognition that “being a mother” is not the totality of our identities. Amy’s parenting blog (and book) emphasizes the importance of including the need for individuality as a legitimate family priority. Her blog is about connecting with the universal needs of mothers, where she shares wisdom she has gleaned from interviews, research, and personal insights and experiences.
The Motherlode: Adventures in Parenting: Like many other parenting blogs, this site treats the primary goal of parenting as raising happy, healthy, well-adjusted kids.
However, as Lisa Belkin of the Motherlode points out, the road from here to there is anything but simple. On this blog, Lisa Belkin tackles it all — homework, friends, sex, baby sitters, eating habits, work-family balance and so much more — subjects culled from the news, from her own experience as a parent, from the latest books and studies and, of course, from reader input.
Lisa Belkin is also the author of a great book called Life’s Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom
Mommy Myth Buster: Angeline Duran Piotrowski`s Mommy Myth Buster came about as a result of her own experiences worrying and feeling hyper-responsible and nervous about all the latest parenting “shoulds” and “shouldn’ts”. Like many new parents, she read and listened and discussed every incarnation of parenting should until it became overwhelming.
Unlike typical parenting blogs, The Mommy Myth Buster blog is about looking at the latest media scares and parenting directives with a critical eye. It looks to credible primary sources for real answers, aiming to bust up parenting myths and reveal the truth so we can relax and enjoy parenthood.
