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Funny Friday: Need a nap? Same here

02/06/2026 nwamamas

If you love naps, or Hamilton songs, or funny people who are also talented performers, this is the Funny Friday video for you. When Shannon and I began nwaMotherlode in 2008, our oldest kids were […]

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Don’t ask ChatGPT for baby advice

01/26/2026 nwamamas

When it’s the middle of the night and your baby STILL won’t go to sleep, sometimes sleep-deprived, exhausted moms turn to ChatGPT because they’re desperate for answers and suggestions for what they could try next. […]

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The Rockwood Files: The best friend check-in

01/24/2026 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mom of 3 If you opened my text messaging app and scrolled through it, there’s one question you’d see repeated over and over again, year after year, between me […]

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Tweens & Teens: 10 things to say to your stressed-out teen

01/23/2026 nwamamas

It is NOT easy to be a teenager. It wasn’t easy when we did it, and it’s definitely not any easier now. So, if you’re noticing signs that your high schooler or college kid is […]

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Recipe for ravioli with sun-dried tomato cream sauce

01/19/2026 nwamamas

Mamas, we’re always on the lookout for a great recipe that takes 30 minutes or less. None of us want to be stuck in the kitchen cooking for hours on a busy school night. So, […]

Fitness

Short Pilates workouts to try at home

01/05/2026 nwamamas

We found a great article on the Well+Good website which has short instructional Pilates videos for a week-long plan.  The videos range in length from 10 to 30 minutes, and there’s one for beginners, too. […]

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The Rockwood Files: Coming of phone-age

10/25/2025 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mom of 3 I don’t know how old I was when my parents let me answer our family’s phone, but I was younger than most. In the early 1980s, […]

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The Rockwood Files: Tummy time for grown-ups

10/11/2025 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Hold your head up. Not just because you’re a fine, upstanding human being. Not just because it makes you look better in photos. Do it because, […]

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The Rockwood Files: The one-eyed, no good, very bad day

10/04/2025 nwamamas

Last Thursday, I sat in a packed parking lot on a college campus teeming with people in a city of more than 100,000. But I might as well have been alone on a leaky raft […]

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Tired of the whining? Try this.

09/24/2025 nwamamas

There’s nothing that sucks the energy out of the day quite like a whiny kid. It’s one of those behaviors that can quickly become the normal way of communicating, if we’re not careful. You can […]

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