Imagine your child’s teacher sitting you down during conferences and telling you that your kiddo is about to lose 2 months in his reading ability, and 2.6 months of math skills—as scheduled.
That’d be a jagged little pill to swallow.
Let me then, as your new BFF blogger break the news to you: The average kiddo who [...]

or her 26th birthday, Kellie Hernandez wanted to get all glammed up for a night on the town, but her champagne tastes — designer dresses and professionally styled hair and makeup — didn’t quite square with her modest salary as a medical assistant.
Fortunately, she had an inside line to a modern version of Cinderella’s godmother [...]

Now that she no longer feels like the Sword of Damocles is hanging by a slender thread over her head, mother-of-two Jen Singer can at last get her dream off the drawing board.
That dream is Parenting With Cancer — the website she wishes had existed when she was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma on [...]

As any parent will tell you, the gear you need to lug around for a newborn — diaper bags, baby carriers and the like — sometimes feels better suited for a bellhop.
But when your infant needs a constant hookup to an oxygen tank, the load is literally almost too much to shoulder.
That’s certainly what Michelle [...]

Are you:
1) A mom?
2) Got friends?
If so, round ‘em up for this very cool contest. The Colorado Music Festival is giving away 15 passes for you and your friends to attend their Young People’s Concert “Beethoven Lives Upstairs” on either June 25 or 27, 2011 at 10 a.m.
Not familiar with the Colorado Music Festival & [...]

**CONTEST CLOSED. CONGRATULATIONS TO MARILYN BELL!**
Mile High Mamas loves Colorado-based mompreneurs and there’s a lot to love about Loves Me Not Clothing Company:
1) The whimsical, colorful, fun, fresh and darling styles.
2) A Colorado mom designs all the clothes that are also manufactured here in Colorado.
3) The quality and price are just right.
Loves Me [...]

After breaking a heel in a gymnastics accident three years ago, Margo Hayes tried indoor rock climbing to keep her upper body strong while her foot healed, and she fell in love with the vertical sport.
Now the Boulder seventh-grader is focused on climbing, and she is an American Bouldering Series youth champion who loves to [...]

**CONTEST CLOSED–CONGRATULATIONS TO WINNER ZONJA HAMILTON!**
I had heard of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet but didn’t read William Shakespeare’s tragedy until high school.
Talk about a letdown with that morose ending.
Thankfully, GNOMEO & JULIET won’t send your kids into a lovesick depression and instead takes a fresh and funny approach to the world’s most timeless story. [...]

Love ‘em or hate ‘em but Crocs™ are a summer staple for kids in Colorado (just go to any playground and the majority of kids are wearing them).
Now, your kiddos can be the envy of all their peers by sporting the very first in the Crocs™ Chameleons line: shoes that change color in sunlight.
Seeing [...]

The mantra at The Village at Edgewater is simple: it takes a village to raise a child.
And that is why Jaine Murphy, a single mom of a 5-year-old daughter, took one of the greatest risks of her life by opening The Village at Edgewater, a restaurant/play area/learning center for young children.
At the focal point of [...]