Cast Your Vote To Help A Kid Who Needs You By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Sometimes you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Do you talk about Sanjaya getting voted off “America Idol” and how a couple of weird hairdos can make you a national celebrity? Or do you.
[Read More]Nanny Envy: The Secret Shame of Childcare By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Disgust, envy, fear, passion, money and power. A sordid love triangle? Kind of. I’m talking about the relationship between mothers and their child-care providers. It’s a bizarre dynamic. There isn’t a woman alive who doesn’t wish she had.
[Read More]Head Judges Boycott Summer Sibling Olympics By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Ahhh, summer… Relaxation and the chance to bond with the ones you love. After a week at the lake with my siblings, their spouses, our collective kids, and our folks, all I can say is, there’s nothing like some.
[Read More]By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com “This is a total nightmare. The flowers are the wrong shade of papaya, the dwarf missed his entrance cue and now the band’s security detail is blocking my entrance to the stage.” The First Lady sweating the details of this state dinner? A bridezilla agonizing.
[Read More]Extra firm. I never dreamed those two little words would cause me to despise my husband, bicker with my parents and spoil countless family vacations. But I’m here to tell you — a bad mattress can ruin your relationships. When my dad first purchased the discount-priced, queen-size mattress for.
[Read More]By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com “We’re not made of money, you know.” If I heard it once, I heard it a thousand times. Whether it was Mom explaining why we couldn’t afford designer jeans or Dad lecturing us to turn the lights off, it seemed like we were always worrying.
[Read More]By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Remember imagining how idyllic life would be when you had your first baby? Cute little booties, a beautiful nursery filled with plastic duckies and a precious baby clad in a hand-smocked white gown, cooing up at you just like the little cutie on the Pampers.
[Read More]By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Is chastity the hot new dating strategy? The “wait until you know someone before you get naked” approach might not be the rage on college campuses, but an increasing number of relationship gurus are advising women to heed Grandma’s wisdom and make the guy buy.
[Read More]By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com “But, Moommmmy, you promised!” Once again, I had fallen woefully short of the perfect mother benchmark, and my child was shaming me with my shortcomings. If there’s a parent out there who never disappoints their kid, they must have a way better calendar system than.
[Read More]By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com If your daughter needed a kidney, would you give her one of yours? Of course you would. But would you think about how to prepare her spirit to receive it? I recently interviewed John St. Augustine, an author and executive producer for “Oprah and Friends”.
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