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Soccer Moms

I Am The Anti-Soccer Mom

Robin O'Bryant | Posted 01.19.2013 | Parents
Robin O'Bryant

I feel guilty because my kids don't do enough, then feel guilty when I make them participate. I came to the point where I had to make a decision for our family.

Political Mothers: You're the Key to the White House

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 01.01.2013 | Parents
Joanne Bamberger

Don't call us soccer moms or mama grizzlies. Leave your Walmart mom label and your waitress mom put-downs at the door. You've got a couple of days to get it right, because there are plenty of moms left to persuade -- if you know how to reach them.

Lynne Peeples

Playing On Pesticides? Soccer Moms Play It Safe, Keep Kids Off Fields

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 10.12.2012 | Green

Cedar McGourty-Batchelor won't be playing soccer this Saturday. Neither will his first-grade teammates from Riverview Elementary School -- nor, for th...

Wake Up Democrats: Obama is Losing Female Voters in Droves

Stewart J. Lawrence | Posted 12.12.2012 | Politics
Stewart J. Lawrence

Consult the latest polls folks and you'll soon discover an inconvenient truth: the vaunted gender gap, while not completely gone, has winnowed away.

World Vision: Waking Up From Suburbia Stupor -- Lessons From a Global Soccer Mom

Cat-Dan Lai-Smith | Posted 12.02.2012 | Impact
Cat-Dan Lai-Smith

Meet stay-at-home mom Shayne Moore. She spends her time supervising homework and driving her kids to sports practices. In the midst of all that, she wrote a book called Global Soccer Mom that's about how the "soccer mom" demographic can be global thinkers.

Can We Just Eliminate Team Snacks Altogether?

Ann Brenoff | Posted 11.17.2012 | Parents
Ann Brenoff

Snacks, by definition, are supposed to be a treat. But instead of regarding them as such, a competition has arisen among mothers to best the previous week's snack mom.

Crying Along With Andy Murray's Mum

Lisa Belkin | Posted 09.08.2012 | Parents
Lisa Belkin

Andy Murray's parents were every parent yesterday. You can watch, and cheer, and close your eyes when you can't bear to look, but you can not do it for them.

Global Motherhood: The State Of The World's Soccer Moms

Jeanne Faulkner | Posted 07.25.2012 | Impact
Jeanne Faulkner

It's not that I'm not delighted to be a mother. I am. Parenting is a significant part of my life, but it's not the sum total of my being and not something that's part of most adult relationships outside my home.

Latina Moms in the 2012 Election

Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto | Posted 03.08.2012 | Latino Voices
Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto

While as a group Latinos continue to support President Obama at higher rates than whites, Latinas approve of the President more than their male counterparts

GOP Candidate Has Women Problems

Marion Patch | Scott Raynor | Posted 12.09.2011 | Politics

Newt Gingrich's woman problems may be creating women problems. Heading into Saturday's Iowa debate, Gingrich's overall poll numbers may have surged...

Facebook Moms Growing in Influence

Marc Middleton | Posted 01.07.2012 | Technology
Marc Middleton

The new most powerful voting block in America will soon be called Facebook Moms. Facebook Moms will replace Mama Grizzlies, who replaced NASCAR Dads, who replaced Soccer Moms.

Porn-Addled Teenage Boys Do Rule The World

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 01.01.2012 | Women
Soraya Chemaly

So what if we don't have a female head of state for the next 500 years. Go get a facial. You'll feel better. Develop a hobby. I hear recreational pole dancing is really fun.

The Trend Triple Threat

Jane Buckingham | Posted 09.13.2011 | Los Angeles
Jane Buckingham

As a trend forecaster, one of the questions I get asked most often is: "Where do you find your trends?" The answer is never easy.

What If There Was No Pressure?

Jane Shure | Posted 09.13.2011 | Sports
Jane Shure

The years of cheering and schlepping as my youngest daughter (now a college grad) played travel and varsity soccer has indelibly marked a soft spot in my heart for "the beautiful game."

Why "Facebook Moms" Will Become the Soccer Moms of 2012

Marc Middleton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Marc Middleton

Why will 2012 be the year of the Facebook Mom? Because there are lots of them and they know how to leverage social media in ways Soccer Moms and NASCAR Dads didn't.

My Post-Divorce Fling: The Ultimate Cliché

Vicki Larson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Divorce
Vicki Larson

Excerpted and revised from Knowing Pains: Women on Love, Sex and Work in Our 40s, a fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Fund. "Who's that?" my older s...

Five Things Politicians Shouldn't Forget About Women Voters on Election Day

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Joanne Bamberger

The story that gets filtered through to the media is that moms are worried only about those kitchen-table issues. If they looked a little more closely, they'd find that moms can multitask about families and politics.

Soccer Moms Score as Prop 19's Swing Vote

Pamela Tom | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Pamela Tom

At every adult social gathering I've been to lately someone whips out some weed. It's as common as cracking open a beer.

5 Signs You're Not a Sports Mom

Delia Lloyd | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Delia Lloyd

I'm wondering if it's time to rethink the label "soccer mom" for myself.

Lookit

Phil Perrier | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Phil Perrier

That's another thing about back then. Everybody smoked and drank, all the time. If you ever watch old TV shows, the people are all smoking. Even Lassie!

12 Minutes, 43 Seconds

Sherry Moss | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Sherry Moss

Are less than 13 minutes of my daughter's glory worth enduring 10 hours of sweat, questionable concession stand food, and whining from the sometimes tag-a-long younger brother?

Hate to Smudge the Lipstick but Could We Get a Muzzle for that Pitbull?

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Warren Holstein

Ms. Palin, you're simply a side-show freak in the corner of the Republican tent that everyone points and titters at as you continue to bark and sell tickets to your own dwindling, embarrassing performances.

Does Marrying For Money Make Sense?

Times Online | Kate Spicer, Deirdre Fernand, Kate Mulvey and Ruth Gilligan | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

A woman with two daughters, a stepson, a large mortgage, a big job and no time was rifling in a tidying -- not a nosy -- way through some of her new h...

Plumbing the Depths of GOP Labels

Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Dave Astor

How can the GOP get more votes in the future, even if it doesn't diversify its monikers? Perhaps by assembling a synergistic coalition of "hockey moms" and "NASCAR dads."

Brazil Rebounds With Bossa Beat

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Eric Ehrmann

In Brazil as in the US, culture plays a big role in how nations survive the slump. Known for beaches, beauties, rain forest and laid back music, Brazil's national motto is "Order and Progress."