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"   No matter what kind of parent you are, you&amp;#039;ll laugh a little or learn a little from these blogs by a crazy suburban mom, a SAHD with a British accent and a professional writer who focuses on body issues: Crazy Suburban Mom (http://crazysuburbanmom.blogspot.com/) As of Thursday, Tracy Reinhardt&amp;#039;s Hefty Bag Tally was at 5. That&amp;#039;s how many garbage bags she&amp;#039;d gone through during her Jamaican Declutter Fest 2009, an attempt to clean out the house before she and her family leave for their vacation in Jamaica. She is, after all, a crazy suburban mom. The New Jersey mom says her clean laundry is never put away, so it &amp;quot;becomes part of the general daily clutter,&amp;quot; and she believes that her positive thinking kept rain from falling on her son&amp;#039;s graduation ceremony. Her blog is filled with photos of her junk she gives away and gems like this: &amp;quot;I became a vegetarian and remained one until my pregnancy forced me to eat baloney.&amp;quot; And she asks the important questions we all want answers to, like when her modem broke: &amp;quot;Why is it even reasonable for something that has no moving parts and is never touched to break in 4 years? I probably have cheese in my fridge older than that.&amp;quot; (Though some of her links are buggy, you can reach her blog entries through Technorati.) You&amp;#039;d Be So Pretty If (http://www.youdbesoprettyif.com/) Dara Chadwick wants to break the mother-daughter cycle of bad body image. In her book and her blog, the Psychology Today contributor admits that she suffered from lifelong body issues that she doesn&amp;#039;t want to pass along to her daughter. So she attempts to redefine perfect: &amp;quot;Perfect, dare I say it, is also sort of boring.&amp;quot; And she rails against the quest for the hot bikini body. &amp;quot;I think we forget sometimes that the models we see in magazines and on television are doing a job&amp;quot; Well written and thoughtful, Dara&amp;#039;s blog is perfect for the woman dealing with her own body image issues and/or her daughter&amp;#039;s. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s an elusive quality about [the captivating, yet not beautiful woman], and it&amp;#039;s one that can&amp;#039;t be measured by a scale, a clothing size or even a mirror: It&amp;#039;s called personality.&amp;quot; Keeblog (http://adamkeeble.blogspot.com/) Suburban stay-at-home dad Adam Keeble says he &amp;quot;manages to write while not up to my ears in diapers and Disney princess outfits.&amp;quot; And that&amp;#039;s no small feat. The Britain-born blogging daddy writes about whatever strikes him as he takes care of his two little kids, such as his son&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Inappropriate Ode to Popcorn.&amp;quot; Filled with references to such guy-friendly Battlestar Galactica, Adam&amp;#039;s blog - great for both moms and dads - was a little light for a few months while he worked on his new book, &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t Put Baby in the Corner! A PG-Rated Guide to Parenting Advice in 1980&amp;#039;s Movies.&amp;quot; But now he&amp;#039;s back to his usual Keeble-flavored insights: &amp;quot;I know my soccer game has improved from &amp;#039;bloody awful&amp;#039; to &amp;#039;bloody awful, but scoring goals regularly.&amp;#039; When his son gets overly excited to score zero in a video game, Adam admits: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m OK with the talk being better than the talent. That&amp;#039;s being a Keeble right there.&amp;quot; Ah, but Adam is both talk and talent, even when he flat-out misses the soccer goal. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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