4 Good Manners that Black Children Rock At!

4 Good Manners that Black Children Rock At!

October 10th, 2014

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Here are a few of the good manners my mom taught me. Sit up straight? Get your hands out of your mouth? If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say nothin’ at all. While the headlines will have us brown mamas thinking that Black kids are a mess, and none of our babies…
Be an Indoor Gardener with these 4 Houseplants

October 8th, 2014

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I LOVE my houseplants. Not only do they clean the air in my home, which is crucial due to my hubby’s allergies, but they also give life to every room they are in. Houseplants can be like a modern version of the knickknacks that your grandma had. You can literally put them anywhere. I use…
Top Ways to Relax Once the Kids Have Gone to Sleep

October 6th, 2014

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Where do all those monsters come from? It seems that our kids discover them everywhere, under the bed, in the cupboard and particularly scary ones appear to live in the bathroom. They are all determined to ensure that the kids won’t go to sleep until the monsters have been banished by mummy and daddy. When…
3 Ways to Make Me-Time into We-Time

October 3rd, 2014

Raising Boys

Dinner and a movie get very boring after awhile. Me and Mack have been married for seven years now, and our days of dinner and a movie are definitely waning. In fact going out at all, since we have three children, just seems either impossible or too much of a task at this point. So,…
Cold Weather Purse Survival Kit

October 1st, 2014

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As you may have heard, winter is coming, and there’s nothing worse than being outside with cold and dry hands, or having no tissue when you’re kid just sneezed a whole snot bubble. Let’s try to avoid those little annoying and embarrassing mishaps this autumn by keeping our right-shoulder ladies equipped with these cold-weather necessities. 1. Lip…
What to Do When Your Man Loses His Job

September 26th, 2014

Raising Boys

It’s been talked and joked about in many Black films. Black men, do not, under any circumstances tell your beautiful, Black wife when you lose your job. And the movies are partially right. No woman likes to think about the burden of an unemployed man. But mamas, less face it, our black men are often the last hired and…
International Speaker Helps Moms Go From Chaos to Calm

September 23rd, 2014

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Most moms don’t go a day without clutter. Whether your dresser is full of too many bottles of lotion, your desk has bills from two months of ago sitting in the so-called neat pile you created or underneath you’re 5-year-old’s bed looks like a clothing bomb exploded, most of us moms have learned to live…
Do Mondays Meatless with Brown Mama Tiffany

September 22nd, 2014

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By: Tiffany Huff, Author of The Best You I am always working to make better food choices for my boys and I, and I encourage others to make better food choices as well. Last year, after seeing a lot of Facebook posts about Meatless Mondays, and some encouragement from my supervisor I decided to give…
Why Brown Mamas Need to Show Up Big @ Mom Con + A Free Ticket

September 22nd, 2014

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So me and fellow mom blogger were browsing the web about two months ago when we stumbled upon this interesting event called The Mom Con. Being the #goodmamas that we are are, we sprang into action. We both had a million questions. When did this start? Why are we just now finding out about it? And…
3 Things Black People Forget to Teach Their Kids

September 5th, 2014

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We try to teach our kids the best we can. But, as a Brown Mamas oftentimes its easy to feel like you’re in a crazy mouse maze without a map. You’re teaching lessons and feel like you’ve hit a brick wall when you don’t get the desired outcome. But, let’s face it through our own…