Ways To Keep Your Sweet Trick-or-Treater From Becoming Sour!

Pacing the race of Halloween festivities is not always as swift as a witch on her broom. Children and adults alike can become very excited with thinking and planning about what to wear and who to be for Halloween. Often times the abundance of festivities, candy and parties seem to get lost in translation with […]

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How much sugar is in your kid’s lunch box?

It’s that time of year again, back to school lunches. Yay, I can’t wait! OK, maybe that’s a tiny exaggeration. But you should actually get a little excited. Packing lunches means we get back to an eating routine. I know my family has been all over the place with food this summer. A few extra […]

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Bringing Home A New Puppy

Before you can bring home that little (or perhaps not so little) bundle of fur, you need to make sure your house is puppy proofed, that you understand what your puppy has and is going through and that you have a clear picture of what to expect from your new best friend. Just like human […]

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Trust Your Instincts- Talking about Fear

We live in a world that is unpredictable and can be very frightening to children.  They are bombarded with negative images everywhere and they can even develop fears by simply observing how their parents are affected by every day stress.  It sounds a bit ominous, but fear itself is not entirely all bad.

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Keep your Cool- Talking about Anger with your Kids

Anger is a very strong emotion which everyone exhibits, and when left unchecked, it can lead us to do very destructive things.  Such is the case for Riley in the movie, Inside Out.  Anger is the 3rd emotion or character that emerges when Riley’s Dad tells her that she cannot have dessert if she does […]

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Sadness and Joy go Hand in Hand

Sadness is the second manifestation of Riley’s emotions to come to life in the movie Inside Out.  All of Riley’s memories are stored in colored orbs which are then sent into “storage” at the end of each waking day.  All of the most important memories (“core memories”) are kept in “headquarters” to fuel  5 Personality […]

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WARRIOR MOMEE (AND DADDY TOO!)

What’s the saying? There are two sides to every coin?  Good and bad, yin and yang, and with every pro there is a con.  We were recently criticized for the name of our company (Momee Friends, Inc.)  and being that it is Father’s Day, I thought it would be appropriate to address the naysayer who […]

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Color Vision Deficiency (CVD) with LI Author Karen Rae Levine

” Color Vision Deficiency isn’t the end of the world it is just a different view of it.” A better term for COLOR BLINDNESS is COLOR VISION DEFICIENCY or CVD Karen Levine is a Long Island Momee of three children: Amanda (23 years old), David (22 years old) and Andrew (19 years old). Karen is a local […]

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At what age does a child understand “no”?

I received an email from a local Momee Friend in need of Momee advice: My daughter is 2 years old and my husband and I feel we constantly say the word “no”. We feel like our daughter looks at us like we have ten heads when we say no, she then laughs (as if it […]

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