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  • East Bay Moms / Parent Facebook Groups?

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    Oct 15, 2019

    Hi all -- Moving to the east bay from SF and wondering if there are parent / mom Facebook groups in east bay that you would recommend joining? I'm part of Main Street Mamas San Francisco and it's been helpful for local tips and info, and wondering if there's something similar in the east bay. Thanks!

    Oct 15, 2019

    There’s a Main Street Mamas East Bay group!

    Oct 16, 2019

    There's a Main Street Mamas East Bay group. Depending on which city you're moving to, there are other local FB groups too (e.g. Berkeley Family Friends, Berkeley Moms). 

    Oct 16, 2019

    The FB group called Berkeley Family Friends has been a good resource. Welcome to the East Bay!

    Oct 16, 2019

    If moving to the Lamorinda area, we have a great Facebook group (closed), called  Lamorinda Families. As long as you live in one of the local towns there, and that is indicated on your profile page you would be allowed to join.

    Oct 16, 2019

    Hello! There is indeed a Main Street Mamas East Bay FB group: https://m.facebook.com/groups/mainstreetmamaseastbay/

    Oct 16, 2019

    Having just deleted my Facebook and Instagram accounts, I am missing these FB moms groups as well as all the buy nothing / swap / classifieds groups I was a part of! I'm monitoring this thread to see if any non-fb suggestions come in 

    Oct 23, 2019

    Berkeley-Emeryville Moms (Swap & Parent Resource) 

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/554503701424368/?ref=bookmarks

    Oct 30, 2019

  • Facebook groups for local parents?

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    Oct 24, 2018

    Dear all,

    I'm looking to join Facebook pages for parents in the greater Bay Area. Any suggestions?

    Thanks,

    Silvia

    Oct 24, 2018

    Hi Silvia,

    I’m a member of a couple. There is Main Street Mamas East Bay and The Mamahood East Bay. I’m also a member of a couple of local Berkeley/Albany groups. Where are you?

    Oct 31, 2018

    Hi Silvia,

    I really liked Main Street Mamas East Bay Facebook group. They organize a number of in-person meet ups so you can have a great community during and after parental leave.

    Kim

    Nov 5, 2018

  • Parenting Podcast or Book recommendations?

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    Jun 18, 2018

    Hello - I have two toddlers, and I’m looking for recommendations for good/entertaining parenting podcasts or books. I feel like we are past the “survival” baby type of parenting advice (sleeping, potty, finding childcare etc.); I am now my looking for things like how and when to best teach them about empathy, finances, stranger danger etc.  Thank you!

    Jun 18, 2018

    That is a broad range of topics, but two books that have been useful to me are "No Bad Kids" (Lansbury) and the classic "How to Talk So Kids Will listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk" (Faber & Mazlish). They are more about your interactions with your kids than about teaching them specific skills, but, of course, the better relationship we have with our kids, the easier it will be to model these skills productively. I look forward to others' recommendations.

    Jun 19, 2018

    Janet Lansbury has an amazing website with articles and podcasts, she has been a lifesaver for me! http://www.janetlansbury.com/, also Lisa Sunbury Gerber http://www.regardingbaby.org/home/

    Jun 19, 2018

    I absolutely love Mom and Dad are Fighting.

    enjoy!

    Jun 19, 2018

    NurtureShock https://amzn.to/2LcXKBV and You are Your Child's First Teacher https://amzn.to/2zudW0a and My Body! What I say goes! https://amzn.to/2N5oZPe to name a few...!

    Jul 12, 2018

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Seeking other online parenting forums

My sister doesn't live here and is so envious of my access to the BPN. Every time I talk to her it seems she's struggling with another parenting dilemma and is looking for advice but we can't seem to find any good online forums. She's hoping to be able to tap into a community of dedicated, socially conscious parents that we are so fortunate to have here. She reads alot but being able to post her specific questions online is so much more efficient given how precious her time is. She doesn't care if it's specific to her region -- it's just advice she wants, not local services or anything. If anyone out there has any websites worth checking out, please post them! Thank you! Erika

Try Tribe.net there are lots of great parenting forums there including Breastfeeding, Attachment Parents, Hip Mamas, etc. http://www.tribe.net jennifer

Good parenting websites & blogs

Dec 2006

As a web-obsessed mama, I'm always on the look-out for new websites to visit on one of my favorite topics: parenting. Do you have any favorite parenting websites to share with me? I'm interested in factual, advice-type sites like BPN and Babycenter.com, but I'd also like to hear about any sites/blogs you visit that are well-written and entertaining. Some examples of that sort that I've been enjoying lately are dooce.com, parenthacks.com, and rookiemoms.com. Can you help this mama waste time? Wendy

I like www.anachronisticmom.com. She has all kinds of advice, including a big medical section, she talks about gifts, breastfeeding, things to do, homeschooling, and types of schools. Lots of stuff in there like to waste time too!

My favorite parenting blog of all time is the one by Catherine Newman on Babycenter called Bringing Up Ben and Birdy. She currently has one at Wondertime, but you can go to her babycenter one and start at the beginning. She is a wonderful mother with great insights on parenting and also a hilarious writer. Rudy

enjoyparenting.com is a fantastic site with a wonderful, simple premise- the greatest gift we can give our children is to enjoy parenting them. Joe

The ultimate parent time-waster is the craigslist parenting forum. When you are itching for the next BPN to come out, go there. Good questions, good advice, but since it is basically unmoderated, there is a fair amount of bitchiness and drama, but it is very possible to avoid all that if you want to anon

There are several great sites I use regularly (descriptions copied from the sites themselves):

http://www.trixietracker.com Trixie Tracker -- crunches simple daily input into rich, informative charts, graphs and striking visual summaries that help you better understand your baby. Learn more about your baby's needs and behavior. Keep track of daily patterns. Share with your family and friends. Get more sleep.

http://www.kellymom.com KellyMom -- this website was developed to provide evidence-based information on breastfeeding, sleep and parenting

http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed) -- a peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.

Blogs:

http://thebabynamewizard.ivillage.com/parenting http://www.webamused.com/milkbreath I second the vote for Catherine Newman at Wondertime and BabyCenter!

Nicole R.

My favorite blog is Sweet Juniper. You can find it at http://sweetjuniper.blogspot.com/ The dad who writes here also blogs at bloggingbaby. I like sweet juniper because both the mom and dad blog and they are both great writers. Rookiemoms and The Poop (at sfgate.com) are also entertaining. reads blogs at work