http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Five Miami Valley moms dish about the wonderful, often humorous and always challenging role of being a mother including: families, kids, babies, pregnancy and things to do with kids in the Dayton and Springfield area. Lucy Baker (a copy editor at the Dayton Daily News) is a mom of three. Michelle Everhart-Sullivan (editor of the CoxOhio community web sites) is a mom of one girl. Michelle Fong is a mom of two. Darci Jordan (a columnist for the Dayton Daily News and Springfield News-Sun) is the mom of two boys with a girl on the way Jill Kelley (columnist and reporter for the Dayton Daily News) is a mom of two boys. en-us motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com 2010-02-09T08:23:14-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2010/02/09/how_to_play_hoo.html I had another “helicopter mom” moment. This one had nothing to do with bullies, but I think the end result - unfortunately - was my son learning to play hookie from school. It all began on a wintery morning …... 16607803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2010-02-09T08:23:14-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2010/02/04/what_is_your_sn.html When you are just inches from a snow day, you may find yourself doing some pretty strange things. About 6 inches of snow is expected to fall in the Dayton area between Friday and Saturday, Feb. 5-6, but for kids... 16572003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Helpful tips 2010-02-04T14:59:33-05:00 jikelley@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2010/02/04/success_in_spor.html This basketball season has been a challenging one for my son and me. My son is 10 and in his first year with this select league, and I have been helping coach. Although the experience has had many bright spots,... 16561703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Mother's Daze columns 2010-02-04T06:49:38-05:00 jikelley@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2010/02/02/safe_car_is_tau.html Many items are designed to keep our kids safe at home: gates, toilet seat locks, cabinet locks, doorknob deterrents, cushy bumpers … I could go on. But, as a parent, I am also concerned about the safety of my car.... 16544903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2010-02-02T14:51:50-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2010/01/28/texting_can_div.html I am among the world’s worst texters. It literally takes me 15 minutes to respond to a text with two sentences (responding is all I do, by the way). It takes me even longer if I try to insert a... 16495303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Mother's Daze columns 2010-01-28T08:39:35-05:00 jikelley@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2010/01/26/working_mom_has.html Just more than a year ago, my husband and I learned our family would be expanding to a grand total of five. We took into serious consideration how our lives would change, and how our two sons would be affected... 16466903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2010-01-26T08:19:44-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2010/01/22/restaurant_week_1.html Ahhhhh … just thinking about Date Night lets a cool, refreshing wave of seratonin wash over my stressed-out mommy brain. But with our tight budget, dining out is definitely a rarity. In fact, we visit restaurants no more than twice... 16432603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Great deals 2010-01-22T01:50:08-05:00 lbaker@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2010/01/21/3rdgrader_think.html There is a time in every kid’s life when the advice of his or her parent starts being processed before it is digested. All the unquestioned directives of early childhood die off, and kids start to analyze whether these pearls... 16412903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Mother's Daze columns 2010-01-21T06:30:49-05:00 jikelley@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2010/01/19/lesson_in_givin.html I fear I’m raising brats. Not really, but we had a moment of “brattiness” following the tragic earthquake in Haiti. I am an evening news watcher. If disturbing images come on I censor them, but I don’t lie to my... 16389503@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2010-01-19T07:50:04-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2010/01/15/a_family_of_fiv.html A family of five going in three different directions at once? Sounds mathematically impossible, not to mention painful. But that’s what we’re facing this weekend. A big invitational for our junior high wrestler, a basketball game for our sixth-grade daughter,... 16352603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Mommy confessions 2010-01-15T01:53:30-05:00 lbaker@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2010/01/14/school_gossip_h.html Usually, I am not into gossip. Sure, if there is something startling or exciting going on at work or within a group of friends, I like hearing about it. But I don’t actively seek it out. Usually. Where I have... 16338903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Mother's Daze columns 2010-01-14T08:26:50-05:00 jikelley@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2010/01/12/find_this_helic.html Last week I hit a nerve. I wrote a column about my husband and I intervening when another child was bullying our son out of a toy while visiting a museum. My inbox was dinging and the online comment board... 16319303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2010-01-12T15:31:14-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2010/01/08/who_wants_to_ra.html Our car was broken into, another in a rash of break-ins in our usually safe neighborhood. Nothing was stolen; things were just tossed about. (I guess our junk wasn’t good enough!) So I was stomping around the house, railing about... 16278203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Mommy confessions 2010-01-08T23:13:58-05:00 lbaker@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2010/01/07/mom_ups_ante_wh.html They say, as a parent, you should pick your battles to keep some semblance of peace in the family. I would have to agree; if I didn’t let a few things slide here and there, not only would I have... 16259103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Mother's Daze columns 2010-01-07T07:16:37-05:00 jikelley@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2010/01/05/friendly_remind.html Winter has tightened its grip but despite the new toys littering our home, my boys got a little stir-crazy during their break from school. We opted for an afternoon at the Boonshoft Museum as a cure to their cabin-fever. Neat... 16237903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2010-01-05T10:34:33-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com