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Cheers!
Any mom who finds alcohol incompatible with her round-the-clock
schedule can enjoy a glass of wine without the worries. Dealcoholized
wine looks and tastes like wine, but has less than one-half
of one percent of alcohol.
ChefMom says you shouldn't mistake these new wines for ordinary
grape juice. They may taste like Chardonnay, Merlot or Riesling,
but they have just a smidge of alcohol and about one-third fewer
calories, too.
And there's more good news: The beneficial properties of red wine
are found in the nonalcoholic version. Recent studies have shown
powerful antioxidants in red wine can reduce risks of heart disease
in some people.
Mom's
potty mouth
When it comes to strong language at Tracy Mayor's house, the children
need to be protected . . . from their mother.
When Mayor gets mad, she gets, well, mouthy. "Don't get me wrong:
I don't swear at my kids. But every once in a great while … when
domestic life begins to take on water and threatens to capsize,
I let down my guard and pop off a profanity that lets everyone know
'Mom's had it.' I want to be a good mother, but do I have to be
a goody-two-shoes all the time?"
Mayor is one of Myria's Real
Life Moms.
Spotlight
on girls
Why are boys so full of
energy when girls seem so tired? Why are sons still an open book
while adolescent daughters seem to be withdrawing? Writer Shellie
Rushing Tomlinson maintains our daughters are under an enormous
amount of pressure that their brothers just don't feel.
In short, society
puts girls on display at an early age.
"Our daughters are growing up under the glare of our culture's
spotlight. They haven't asked for center stage and they're shrinking
beneath its harsh beam," Tomlinson writes in an essay for Myria.
"Our daughters have sensed this surveillance all their lives … from
the moment they leave the house, they are on display and they know
it." She suggests five things you can do to take that glaring spotlight
off your girl.
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