Gretchen and Paige speak with fellow mom and Mommycast community manager, Shelley Fosse, about Mommycast.com's new Ning page. Ning is a social network where fans can interact with one another, as well as Gretchen and Paige. Ning community users can also upload their own pictures, videos, and blogs. Ning's interface is extremely user friendly, and will be a source of exclusive content for listeners.
Paige and Gretchen take some time to answer a few questions from their favorite people, the viewers!
Developing verbal expression, toilet training, separation anxiety...got a toddler? No problem. Paige and Gretchen get excellent counsel from Caroline Clauss-Ehlers, PhD from the Pampers Parenting Network on how to help toddlers channel their determination and independence without either one of you going crazy.
Gretchen had the pleasure of interviewing Billy Ray Cyrus about his support for the Best Foods Sandwich Swap and Share to benefit Feeding America. Now Paige gets to introduce three music videos from his new album Back to Tennessee. Enjoy some great country music with Real Gone, Thrill Billy, and the title track Back to Tennessee! The album is available on itunes here.
Do you remember learning how to drive? Are you ready for your kids to start? Gretchen and Paige both have teenage sons who are taking the wheel and they are two nervous ladies. In this show they're commiserating over the gray hair they've been gifted by their sweet sons and sharing some of the laughs they've had too. If you’re ready to share your driving with a teenager stories we'd love to read them in the comment section at www.mommycast.com.
"Talking with superstar actor and musician Billy Ray Cyrus was ah-mazing," Gretchen says. Not to mention the cred she got with her country music loving husband! Billy Ray joined Mommycast to tell families how they can support Feeding America, the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity, by logging onto facebook at www.facebook.com/hellmanns and making a virtual sandwich. Easy peasy, right? For each sandwich you make, Hellman’s and Best Foods will donate seven lunches to Feeding America!
Billy Ray is on tour right now for his new album, "Back to Tennessee," and fans can also enter to win tickets and a chance to meet him at one of his concerts by bidding at the online auction on ebay.Parents know kids love to snack, and they often love foods that aren’t so good for them, but with an estimated one third of all children in the United States being overweight, moms and dads are right to be concerned. Paige and Gretchen spoke with registered dietician, Julia Mutter, to review easy and fun ways families can fight back against this trend.
Adding to their audio show, the mommies show you a sample of what MommyCast Videos will bring you. It's fun. It's educational. It's MommyCast Videos!
Paige and Gretchen talk with Julia Mutter, registered dietician, about how to manage snack time.
With seven kids between them, Paige and Gretchen have seen a tantrum or two. So has Dr. Rene Hackney, founder of Parenting Playgroups, and she filled the mommies in on techniques for avoiding tantrums, and then what to do when one (oops) happens anyway. You’ll want to try her techniques for tracking triggers, teaching “emotion language,” and more.