Valentine Date GIVEAWAY For You and Your Child!

January 29, 2013

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For just one week every month, I have after school carpool duty. I hire a babysitter for the little ones and off I go to pick up Diego and his three buddies from school. Once I drop off the other boys to their homes or play dates, I take Diego to a “mommy-and-me” coffee (milk for him) date. He loves it and I love it. Knowing that it is so important to have one-on-one time with each boy, I really look forward to alone time with my oldest. We talk about our day and we share treats and we always end up reading something together or individually.

Because Amazon let me keep a second copy of both Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents (remember this post?) and Valentine’s Day Is, I thought, why not pair them up, give the brand new copies to a My Friend Betty Says awesome reader and add $15 Starbucks gift card from me? Instant date with your little one!

To enter: simply leave a comment below telling us who your little date would be.

If you want to add more entries (and increase your chances of winning!) follow My Friend Betty Says on Facebook.

You can also follow me on Twitter and tweet this: #Giveaway! Valentine Date for you and your child from @myfriendbetty

Please remember to post a different comment for each entry!!!

Entry dates: Tuesday, January 29th-Sunday, February 10th (11:59pm Eastern Time)

Winner (Random.org) will be announced here on my blog on Monday, February 11th.

Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. I did receive free copies from Amazon (I have my own) and the $15 Starbucks gift card is from me.

Good Luck!!!!

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Serving One Unhappy Customer

March 30, 2012


Oh boy. Just look at Diego’s little face as he is about to dig in to his sweet Morning O’s and that juicy slice of orange. This is Diego’s look every time he is about to eat anything! And he loves the cereal and fruit!! The poor kid has a pajama/pizza party at school today and he is bent out of shape because he doesn’t eat pizza and he doesn’t want to be the only one who takes a lunch.

Jose and I are really surprised that Diego is a super-picky eater. Diego has been to ten different countries and has managed to find things to eat during our travels without having to resort to a restaurant that is an American franchise! We wouldn’t call ourselves foodies but Jose and I know how to enjoy a good meal. We love to chow down! And we don’t consider ourselves picky at all. There is always a diverse amount of food in our house and when we eat out, we never eat fast food (except Chipotle). We indulge in sushi, Thai, Mexican, Chinese, Italian, and Indian food! We can’t understand why every time we have a meal with Diego (twice a day for me) everyone is unhappy, threats are made and the meal is pretty much ruined. [Read more...]

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Book Review #3-Raising Happiness

March 28, 2012


Just finished Raising Happiness by Dr. Christine Carter! Wouldn’t you say that the title is brilliant? What parent doesn’t often say, “I just want my kids to be happy”? Dr. Carter claims that it just takes “10 simple steps for more joyful kids and happier parents”. When you start reading you will notice that there are only 10 chapters (hence the 10 simple steps), but there are many suggestions, recommendations and tips in each chapter! So I realized that you just can’t do 10 things and yay everyone in your family will be much happier.

So I marked this book up with so many pink, sticky post-it-notes that Jose laughed at me, my doctor laughed at me (but I flipped the cover because I didn’t want to concern her as she was about to check in on my third child) and Diego said, “Wow Mommy! Lots of bookmarks! You want to remember all of that?” Kinda. Of course I marked 18 little sections that I thought were interesting to review, practice or continue practicing in our lives and pass it on to you. And I am not suggesting you are raising unhappy children. I don’t think I am… but when I reviewed Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, my friend Vanessa suggested I now read Raising Happiness. So I am now going over my crazy notes (just look below) and in a nut shell, I will attempt to help you raise happier children (if you want to know more…click on the image of the book at the top of this post and order)!

So shall we? This is what I gained from 185 pages of great advice: [Read more...]

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