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• REALITY BITES: Resolutions That “Don’t Bite Off More Than MAMAs Can Chew"
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 1/2/12

We’re sick of pretending like we’re going to join a gym, lose the same 10 lbs. as we’ve pledged before and finally fit into our skinny jeans.  Really?  Who cares?  Not us, or we’d do it.  So, how about just resolving to do what we can do? Let’s embrace the Spanks and stop dumping so many unrealistic expectations on ourselves all at once - to stop smoking, stop swearing, stop eating crap, oh...

• "What Goes Around, Comes Around" : An Opinionated Mom's Perspective on KARMA
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 12/29/11

It’s a new year and another opportunity for a fresh start.  If you believe in Karma, which is the Buddhist law of moral causation, a belief that "what goes around, comes around," then how about seizing the opportunity that comes “once in a blue moon” to get some good Karma going?  

The great thing about new beginnings is that they can take whatever form you chose.   I remember hearing about...

• O-MAMA's Tips For Faking The "Perfect" Family" Holiday
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 12/14/11

Faking the perfect family takes years of practice, so MAMAs don't put too much pressure on yourselves for perfecting it immediately.  With one major holiday down, here are some tips that can give us a head start on the next one!

1. The perfect family photo/holiday card

Really? Why do we pick out matching clothes for our kids and expect that a) they are going to like it, b) it will make...

• "We Are All Pilgrims & Indians": Opinionated MAMA's Perspective On IMMIGRATION
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 11/21/11

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We are a nation of pilgrims.  Unless you are a Native American Indian, you have the blood of immigrants.  So, although you feel like a native, your family came here from somewhere else. Our individual immigration stories give credence to the fact that we are the scrappiest, hardest-working collection of people on the planet.  Our relatives fled famine, persecution, incarceration or were...

• "Between A Rock & A Hard Place": Opinionated MAMA's Perspective On The WARS
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 10/20/11

Originally posted 8/19/10: Sometimes as parents we find ourselves in the craggy spot between a rock and a hard place, trying to navigate our way out of a difficult situation.  Which is the right path?  The just and prudent path? The easy or the hard way?  The President’s task as Commander in Chief is parallel to our own in some regards when it comes to setting a course in times of conflict....