Motherhood as the End of Adventure?
Why Having a Baby is Just the Beginning.

My husband leans over from the passenger side, seatbelt pulling taut as he cranes his neck to get a better look at the speedometer. With a disbelieving shake of his head, he admits defeat; I’ve beaten him with lead foot to pedal, topping out at 122 MPH on this foggy stretch of German autobahn. We pull over at the next inn to toast my victory over a stein of pilsner (for him) and a glass of water (for me). At six months pregnant, I’d come to terms with missing out on German beer — in Germany, during Oktoberfest — but I certainly wasn’t going to let pregnancy stop me from seizing the chance to cross BOTH “driving on autobahn” and “beating husband at own game” off the bucket list. Soon I’d have a baby and my days of wild rides would be over forever…

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Prudent Baby Named #1 DIY Site on the Web

The What’s What: As the #1 online destination for DIY mom projects, Prudent Baby has long been making our lives stylish and beautiful, with hundreds of craft ideas, tutorials, art activities, sewing patterns and party plans. And not your typical ideas, either: We love that in addition to their booster seats, changing pad covers, and simple snuggly blankets, they also offer a section called “Hot Mess Mommy,” where moms can make their own accessories (like this reversible eye mask).
The Mamas: Jaime and Jacinda – who met years ago at a movie studio in Los Angeles – launched Prudent Baby as a way to let their creative juices flow while still being moms. In addition to running their site, LA-based Jaime is the author of Prudent Advice: Lessons for my Baby Daughter and a blogger for Babble’s own Family Style, and Jacinda, who finds a way to stay stylish in the Texas heat, is a mom of two with baby #3 on the way!

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Style Books for the Pickiest Personalities in Your Life

Just a week until Christmas and you’re plumb out of gift ideas for some of the tough customers in your life? Consider something deeply retro: a book.

Publishers flood the market each fall with style books to suit virtually every personality category in Freud’s notebooks. One reason: The end of the year often brings people both extra time to read and a sudden inspiration to better themselves in the new year…

The Young Mother
Prudent Advice: Lessons for My Baby Daughter (A Life List for Every Woman), by Jaime Morrison Curtis.

The crafts editor at PrudentBaby.com, Ms. Curtis wrote this book for her own daughter, Scarlet Jane, who is still a tot herself. One might ask if a newbie mother should be giving the rest of us advice, but Ms. Curtis manages to include plenty of tough, honest wisdom, such as, “Sometimes it’s just not about you,” and “Not everyone is going to like you, and that’s just fine…”

Read the rest of this article at The Wall Street Journal online and the December 16th print edition.

Shelf Awareness – Gift Books: Prudent Advice

Andrews McMeel has published a winning book by Jaime Morrison Curtis: Prudent Advice. Curtis has a baby daughter and started compiling advice for her, which turned into “a life list for every woman.” It’s a hardcover, and at $12.99 and 200 pages, it’s tough to beat as a gift suggestion. Of course, the content has to be good, and is it ever…Curtis expands on most of her advice (on appreciating the weather, she says, “It is one of the few uncontrolled experiences of nature you will have if you live in the city.”) with wisdom, wit and love.

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Slate: Books for the Kids Still on Your List

Slip mom a copy of Prudent Advice: Lessons for My Baby Daughter (A Life List for Every Woman), which offers snippets of the kind of practical wisdom that anyone would like to have around the house…

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Daily Candy: Advice Worth Taking

…its latest incarnation, as a perfectly packaged little Tiffany blue book, gives Curtis’s motherly pearls of wisdom new life. With a mix of practical information (while washing nice dishes and glasses, put a towel in the sink), thought-starters (if you test people, they may fail), and simple suggestions (order the local specialty), each of the 500 nuggets are reminders about the type of women we strive to be and the type of women we want to raise.

Our advice: Get one for yourself and one for a little lady you love.

Read the rest of this article at DailyCandy Kids.

The Dallas Morning News: Fashion Flash

…Prudent Advice: Lessons for My Baby Daughter (A Life List for Every Woman). The book lists 500 tidbits of advice from mother to daughter from traditional (“always send a thank-you note”) to meaningful (“you are the wellspring of your own hope”) to insightful (“always order the local specialty”).

Read the rest of this article at Dallas Morning News.

Come join us for book signing parties in these cities!  More dates to come so check back often.

Los Angeles

Where: The Little Seed, 219 N. Larchmont Blvd., b/t Beverly Blvd. & W. Third St. (323-462-4441).
When: Friday, October 15th, 5:30-8 p.m.
Hosted By: The Little Seed | Bash, Please | Frosted | Trisha Cardoso | Mix Tape | Kid Concierge
With Prizes Furnished By: Smashbox Cosmetics | Cutarts | Reebok | Two for Fitness | Lip Elixirs | J Lynn Jewelry | Love My Woobie | and more.

Chicago

Where: The Book Cellar, @ Sulzer Library, 4455 N Lincoln Ave., b/t W. Sunnyside & W. Montrose Aves. (312-744-7616).
When: Saturday, October 23rd, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
Hosted By: The Book Cellar, 4736-38 North Lincoln Ave. (773-293-BOOK).

Dallas

Where: Little Bean Shop, 5308 Junius St., b/t N. Henderson Ave. & N. Augusta St. (214-370-9111).
When: Friday, November 5th, 6-8 p.m.
Hosted by: Little Bean Shop | Dallas Child Magazine | Small Magazine
| Kartell | Bows & Arrows | Tart Bakery

San Diego

Where: Babies by the Sea, 2007 San Elijo Avenue, Cardiff-by-the-sea, @ Birmingham Ave. (760-230-4272).
When: Saturday, November 13th
Hosted by: Babies by the Sea

Pasadena

Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
When: Wednesday, December 15th, 7:00 p.m.
Hosted by: Vroman’s Bookstore

If you would like to host a Prudent Advice event, please contact jaime(at)prudentbaby(dot)com

Pregnancy Magazine: Read it!

This book of insightful observations, originally compiled by author Jaime Morrison Curtis for her baby girl, will positively inspire your parenting.

Read the rest of this article in the November issue of Pregnancy Magazine.