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Kids Cooking: Strengthening Relationships and Growing Skills

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Guest Post by Jyl Johnson Pattee from Mom It Forward: I have loved being a mom and watching my two boys develop passions for various hobbies. I’ve been most intrigued by those I thought were passing phases, but became a part of them. For example, 4 years ago, my then 6 year-old son announced he... Read More

Five Tips for Being a Mary Poppins-Like Mom

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Guest Post from Jyl Johnson Pattee When I think about perfect role model mother figures from the movies, I immediately think of Mary Poppins. She swoops in and immediately gets the kids to clean, feed the birds, and love to laugh without any apparent effort. She lets difficult situations, like ch... Read More

The Editor’s Favorites: June 2010

By Erin Oltmanns

So June just whizzed right on by. Truly...the last thing I remember it was Memorial Day weekend and BOOM now you can’t throw a rock without hitting a red-white-and-blue dessert post. For me and the rest of the evo ’10 team, June was a flurry of preparations for our inaugural conference at The... Read More

The Editor’s April Favorites

By Erin Oltmanns

April was a good one, folks. Lots of good stuff on the world wide web and lots of fun at our house. We felt the big spring tease here and promptly rushed out to buy sunglasses. We’re still working on technique... Awesome Stuff from Moms... Life lessons can be found everywhere...especi... Read More

Summer of Service

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Guest Post from Jyl Johnson Pattee: I recently wrote an article on MomItForward.com about 10 tips for raising charitable, giving children and it got me thinking. One of the best ways to teach your children to be service-oriented is to model the behavior for them. With that in mind, I created the ... Read More

Dreaming for Others

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Raised with a passion for volunteering, Jyl launched Mom It Forward, an organization devoted to harnessing social networking tools to make an impact on the lives of women across the globe. Name Jyl Pattee City / State Provo, UT What was your big dream? To create a worldwide organizatio... Read More

March of Dimes Fund Soars in Memory of Maddie Spohr

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By Danielle Smith Reprinted with permission from MomItForward.com. Original post date: April 21, 2009 Less than 2 weeks ago, something terrible happened. A mother and father took their little girl to the hospital. Sweet Madeline Alice Spohr never came home again. ... Read More