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Mom Approved: Last Minute Prep for Your Big Event

Holiday season is a distant memory (whew,) but the Valley is now booming and in the national spotlight. Our schedules have quickly filled with events surrounding the Super Bowl and Waste Management Phoenix Open. Then, soon after, the most romantic day of the year, Valentines Day, will be here.  Our calendars may look appealing to the socialite in us but, as a busy mom, we are in a panic.  How do we pull ourselves together and look amazing , especially right after the stressful, tedious...

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MASK's Dialed In Dad: Herschel Walker

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He was an all-American running back at the University of Georgia where he set 10 NCAA records and led the team to a national title. He won the Heisman Trophy in 1982 and went on to sign with the Dallas Cowboys, who he started and ended his career with. He set a single-season professional football rushing record with 2,411 yards and ranks in the National Football League’s top 10 for most all-purpose yards of all time. There’s no questions Herschel Walker is a sports legend.

But...

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MASK's Minute with Mom: Nicole France Stanton

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The benefits for young girls of a robust professional women’s sports culture is widely accepted. We all know that girls who play sports are more confident, less likely to do drugs, do better academically, and are less at risk for diseases.

Watching women’s sports is essential to this equation because it allows young girls to have role models. Watching professional women’s sports with your daughters gives them something to aspire to. But what about your sons?

Last summer, I was stunned to hear my...

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MASK's Dad Dialed In: Tom Lehman

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Parenting is tough. It’s not a world for the weak or those who don’t pay attention. And to make matters more challenging, there is no real guidebook or a guaranteed how-to book on raising kids.

I know from personal experience that all of the above is true. Hopefully, my wife and I have learned from our mistakes as we’ve gone through the process of raising our four kids. We can only hope that our core belief that unconditional love overcomes all holds to be true.

It wouldn’t be unfair to say...

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Mask's Minute with Mom: MB York

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Having grown up as the only girl in a family with three brothers, I always dreamed of having a sister. Surrounded by Legos, football and chaos—including coming home to find my Barbieʼs hair chopped off—I vowed to myself that when I grew up my life would be perfect.

Like Barbieʼs dream house, my life would be modern, organized and probably child-free. I wanted to be an independent businesswoman, free to travel the world and be

glamorous without crying babies at my hip and messing up my house. So that’s what I did.

I...

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