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Donna Donnelly - The Breakup That Hurts More Than Anything: Getting Dumped By Your Babysitter - The Storked Blog
Did you ever have someone breakup with you? How terrible was it? Now imagine it’s your babysitter!!! The Storked Blog page at Glamour.com had an interesting post this month discussing the dreaded end of babysitter relationships. Finding [...]

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Karen Hartzell - The one where I take the wrong kid to the pediatrician - Peapod Squad Stuff
This post just made me laugh! A, because I love a good family similar to Everbody Loves Raymond other than my own. (Yes, I do believe I am married to a man bearing a remarlably similar personality to [...]

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Amy Trice - Goodbye Beach - Scary Mommy
My August Nod goes to Scary Mommy’s “Goodbye Beach” (inspired by Goodnight Moon). It is a sweet farewell to summer and summer vacation.
Heidi Parker - Nine Months to Life - Anti-Maternity Wear
I can absolutely relate to Sarah’s post here because I’m right at the point of my normal clothes [...]

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Lindsay Lebresco - Break Out the Kleenex, It’s the BlogHer 09′ Community Keynote - BlogHer
So if you were here earlier this week perhaps you heard read me go on and on about the BlogHer Community Keynote.  Guess what? I’m going to do it again. This time I’m going to Nod all the keynoters because I [...]

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As many of our readers know, we do something here on the Graco blog called “Monthly Nods.” It’s a little program that allows all of the Graco contributors to choose a favorite post they discovered over the last month and share it with our readers.  We think it’s fun, our readers seem to enjoy when [...]

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A couple of folks submitted their nods to me this month and they were actually for blogs/bloggers we’d previously  nodded.  And perhaps those bloggers deserve double recognition, but I like to spread the wealth Problem is, maybe we don’t know you’re out there!  If you have a parenting blog that you think is “nod-worthy” [...]

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I love reading through all the nod posts when they are “submitted” to me by all of our contributors. I’ve often discovered new blogs this way and there are some great ones this month. A couple left me in tears, some made me laugh but they always remind me about the privilege of parenting. Our [...]

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Lindsay Lebresco- Foodmomiac - Sleeping Arrangements
This post and it’s brilliant illustration gave me a good chuckle. I wasn’t laughing at Danielle and her sore back of course, I was laughing the I-totally-know-what-you’re-going-through laugh.  Jagger’s midnight migration into our room is of the “maximum disruption” kind too - he runs in at like 15 mph like [...]

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February’s installment of the Graco Monthly Nods…
Lindsay Lebresco - Tyson Foods Hunger Relief - True Story from the Backpack Program
My nod is a little different this month. It’s not going out to a parenting blog but rather a fellow “corporate” blog. Tyson Foods has an amazing blog dedicated to getting America one step closer [...]

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We’ve been doing our Monthly Nods for almost a year now but I thought I’d remind everyone (or tell the new folks) what this program is all about…
A large part of joining in the conversation in the online parenting community, is reading all of the great conversation that is going on in the blogosphere. We [...]

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