Tales From The Mommy Track on Shine

The Registered Dietitian vs. the Picky Eater.

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track) It turns out that I’ve been approaching this food thing all wrong. Which is not such a great surprise, given that I’ve gotten nowhere with it for the last…

Halloween: Give More than Candy.

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track)

I have this friend who is beautiful and smart and funny, and who runs her own business and is involved with a million different charities, and is divorced and…

Food Frustrations: Nutritionist-Bound.

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track)

I am getting nowhere with the food thing.

I’ve written several times about my daughter, and her aversion to anything that does not involve pasta,…

Green-Eyed Monster: Does motherhood bring out your insecurities?

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track)

When it comes to men, I am not, by nature, a jealous person. Ten years ago, when all of our friends were getting married and my husband was running off to Vegas…

Is Seven the new Seventeen?

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track)

Life was much easier when I had toddlers. Toddlers are simple and predictable. Yes, they have tantrums about nothing, but ooh! – look at that sparkly thing…

Twenty Year Reunion.

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track) When I ran for senior class president in 1989, I knew that I would have to plan the prom. I knew that I would have to plan our class trip (which, sadly, never…

In Defense of Home Economics.

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track) When I was ten, I tried to bake a cake for my mom’s birthday. Like a lot of kids growing up in the 80’s, I was a latchkey kid, and I remember being…

Skinny Cow.

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track)

Ever since my daughter was born, I have been vigilant about safeguarding her body image. Words like “calorie,” “fat,” and “diet” were…

Keep Your Hands to Yourselves.

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track)

I know last week I waxed poetic about all of the things

What Do You Love About Summer?

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track)

I love summer.

I love having nowhere to be, no carpools to drive, no schedules to stick to.

I love the smell of sunscreen mixed…