February, 23, 2012

The iVillage Back To School Community Challenge

The iVillage Back To School Community Challenge

Our free 4-week program will teach you everything you need to know to get your kids ready for the upcoming year and ease the whole family's transition back to the school routine.

You'll receive daily assignments and tips from your coach on everything from easing first day anxiety to connecting with teachers and parents and maintaining your family’s schedule – and sanity!

Plus, you’ll have the chance to win our weekly prize – a $500 shopping spree at Zappos.com – or our grand prize $1,000 Zappos shopping extravaganza!

Sign up now by entering your email above and don't forget to pass the word along to your friends and family too!

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MEET YOUR COACHES

Amanda Rodriguez

AMANDA RODRIGUEZ
This DC-area iVoice is the force behind the popular humor and parenting blog, parenting BY dummies, where she humorously and honestly recounts navigating motherhood, womanhood, life. While surrounded by boys at home, Amanda is very passionate about helping girls and women improve their self-esteem, and was recently a contestant on the TLC national series, “What Not To Wear.” She wants to encourage moms everywhere to ‘up their awesome,’ not only for their kids but for themselves as well!

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Beth Engelman

BETH ENGELMAN
iVoice Beth is a single mom, blogger behind Mommy on a Shoestring, columnist, radio personality, and former kindergarten and first grade teacher from Glenview, Il.  She is an avid recycler and loves to find and share ways families can learn, celebrate and have fun on a shoestring budget.  Her own son starts kindergarten this month so forging great back- to-school habits is high on her mind.
 
 

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Sharon Rowley

SHARON ROWLEY
iVoice Sharon is a mom of six—ages 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, and 5 yrs old. During the family trips overseas to adopt their three youngest, she began keeping a travel blog that left readers begging for more. As her youngest set off for preschool, she was inspired by the 2010 iVoices search to resume writing. Momof6.com was born with her first iVoice contribution. Often asked what her secret is to keeping it together, she proudly cites that her active household has made her a master planner.

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Jim Higley

JIM HIGLEY
New iVoice Jim is the Bobblehead Dad – writer, motivational speaker, radio show host, and cancer warrior. A single father raising three kids, Jim’s first book, Bobblehead Dad: 25 Life Lessons I Forgot I Knew, celebrates the stories waiting for us in the nooks and crannies of our days. Jim writes a parenting and family column, "Bobblehead Dad", for Chicago Tribune's TribLocal and is a writer for “The Good Men Project” and “Man of the House.” He is also the inaugural winner of the World’s Greatest Dad Challenge, sponsored by “Man of the House.” His kids, however, are requesting a recount.

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