Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’

Facebook etiquette: Pardon our policy!

Periodically we experience an increase in Facebook posts from people looking to promote their own businesses to our social media audience. We typically remove these posts. We simply don’t feel it is appropriate for others to use our site in a way that is self-serving. We would never post a “Subscribe to RAISING ARIZONA KIDS” [...]

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Potty training on Facebook

In 2009, a local official from my city and his wife each faced six counts of felony child abuse during what they called a “potty-training war” with their adopted daughter. In 2011, a Dallas mother was arrested for gluing her daughter’s hands to the wall during a potty-training incident. As a mother of two small [...]

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Thinking "different" on the day Steve Jobs died

Through no one’s fault but my own, I lost a month’s worth of work and email. I am typically very compulsive about weekly backups on my laptop. But in early September I found myself distracted by company in town, a busier-than-usual social life and beautiful, cooler weather in which to pursue adventures on my bicycle instead [...]

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The daily rhythms of life in the NICU

Julianna Lyddon, M.C. is a Paradise Valley therapist and the author of Raising A Happy Spirit: The Inner Wisdom of Parenting. She also produces a weekly talk radio show online. The show is on every Friday from 1-2pm Arizona time at toginet.com. You can stream it live or listen to podcasts of past shows. Lyddon’s guest [...]

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Photographing grieving fathers

A guest blog by Raising Arizona Kids staff photographer Dan Friedman For our June issue, I photographed four dads who had lost children for Mary Ann Bashaw’s story, “Fathers Reflect on Grief.” I wasn’t sure how the four dads would react to me tracking them down by email and telephone to make arrangements to take their [...]

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Make my day: feedback

I was out of town most of the weekend, so I missed Saturday’s cover shoot with our 2011 Mother’s Day Cover Mom Contest winner. I’m eager to hear about it from Art Director Michelle-Renee Adams and Photographer Daniel Friedman when I get back to work on Monday. Michelle notified our winner (whose name shall remain [...]

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I have a dilemma

Lynn Trimble responds to a friend’s suspicion that she’s actually been cloned, reflects on a dilemma faced by daughter Lizabeth and recounts tough choices faced over the weekend.

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Celebrating my birthday at Camp Fair

I have to admit that I wasn’t all that excited, at first, to realize that Camp Fair was going to fall on my birthday this year. Birthdays are supposed to be about taking it easy, doing what you want to do and being with the people you want to be with. Well, except for the [...]

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Social media schizophrenia

Intentionally or not, I’ve blurred the lines I’d hoped to draw in my social media presence. There is no logical way to keep the personal and professional sides of my life separate.

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Making something on the Internet disappear

Here’s an interesting twist on the warning that “once it’s on the Internet, it’s there forever.” That’s something parents typically tell high school or college students who are posting pictures on Facebook that a future employer might use to judge their character. It’s not something you usually think about in terms of what a mother might [...]