My mom used to call it “the real mother’s day.”  The first day of school!  The day we reclaim our homes and lives from 8am to 3pm or thereabouts.   O-MAMA is begging you to resist the urge to feel badly about being happy that the kiddo’s are out of our hair until next summer vacation.   ... Read more

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UPDATE 7/7/11- The final Harry Potter movie,”Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 2,” is set to debut in the United States on July 15. The series might be over, but fans can still get their fix on the worlds #1 Harry Potter site, www.mugglenet.com.  And never fear, Book MAMA suggests a new book for ... Read more

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There’s a new doll out to teach young girls how to breastfeed babies.  Bebe Gloton comes with a halter top with flower shaped “nipples” that girls put on when they want to “feed” their baby.   The doll makes crying and sucking noises.  The Spanish toy maker, Berjuan, says that it’s “healthy fun,” for girls ... Read more

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For a woman to admit that she never wanted to be a mother is a big deal.  For a mother to leave her children with their father for an extended period of time to pursue her career is also a big deal.  This mother did both. Rahna Reiko Rizzuto won a grant to go to ... Read more

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Someone who has teenagers asked me the other day if I’d rather catch one of my kids smoking pot or having sex.  I said smoking pot—because I have daughters I guess, and I’m Catholic and kind-of a hippie but then I thought, Good Christ, can’t we just do neither?  No, of course not.  And the ... Read more

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Yep, with all the talk of the Republican’s Pledge To America, Opinionated MAMA has come up with our own pledge…it’s a non-partisian “pinky swear” kind of PLEDGE TO AMERICA’s KIDS to do the best we can by our KID-Os, because even with junk all over our car and food on our clothes, we still manage ... Read more

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Amy Chua’s book,“Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,“ is causing the hair to stand up on the backs of moms across the animal kingdom.  (Bad visual, we know YOU don’t have a hairy back.)  But, she writes about how Asian mothers raise successful children.  And, yes, she basically says that Chinese moms are the BEST in ... Read more

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