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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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Funny Friday: Singing the praises of the weighted vest

09/12/2025 nwamamas

Leave it to the multi-talented Holderness family to create the perfectly choreographed musical tribute to the vest all the cool moms are wearing these days. May we present… the video. Happy Friday, mamas! Enjoy your […]

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The Rockwood Files: Beanie baby

09/06/2025 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 There’s a baby in the house. A tiny, orange, fuzzy baby with two green eyes, 18 pink toes, and 24 whiskers that are too long for […]

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