If you are new to my blog, welcome. I have established a well known and popular parenting blog in DC. In addition, I am invited to speak on panels, participated in a roundtable discussion on Huffington Post LIVE about work-life balance, have been interviewed by the Washington Post on several topics including the prevalence and influence of mommy blogs as well as engaging toddlers in technology, by NPR on traveling with young children, Today Show Moms for a piece on lice, and I contribute to Washingtonian Magazine and Huffington Post. I am always happy to consider new invitations to speak, so please contact me at wiredmomma@me.com if you have any questions. For a sampling of my most popular posts, read below. I am most well known for my sense of humor but also tend to gravitate towards work-life balance issues:
Humor (aren’t the topics endless, particularly with a toddler in tow?):
Watch me here — it’s short & it will make you laugh- it’s my reading during the May DC premiere of “Listen To Your Mother”
The Bad Attitude Guide to Surviving Epic Power Outages – this piece was picked up by 94.7 Fresh FM & Tommy McFly talked about it on air during morning drive time
The Survivors Guide: The Top Five Toddler Truths – did you know you married a serial killer? Your toddler knows. Find out why.
Occupy Parents: Oppression by Toddler
Spare Me “Too Cute to Spook” – my first attempt at video blogging –
Halloween Diva...on how I birthed Beyonce
The Year of the Rat – life with a three-year-old
Do You Need a New Year’s Resolution When You’re Already Awesome
Hynie Mouth: Another Evil Plot to Destroy Moms
The Uncensored ABC Guide to Preschool
Work-Life Balance
Tweak Your Life – Watch me during a roundtable discussion on work-life balance on Huffington Post LIVE
The Glass Ceiling Keeps Calling: On Marissa Mayer and the Fortune Magazine Cover
The Wired Momma Working Mother Hero Award Series
Perfection, Martyrs & Motherhood: Where does it leave the kids?
I currently contribute to publications locally in the Washington, D.C. area. But if you are looking for contributions elsewhere, I have endless ideas and would love to hear from you. Here’s a sample of where else I publish or have spoken. I can be reached at monica.sakala@gmail.com
Speaking/Conference Opportunities:
- October 24, 2013 – Panelist on Blogging & Small Businesses for the Femworking gastrointestinal Conference, Washington DC
- March 17, 2013 – Expert Panel at the A Baby Affair Conference, Washington DC
- November 14, 2012 National Consumer League Panelist on Food Safety on Capitol Hill
- November 3, 2012 – invited speaker at a mom’s retreat in Middleburg, VA
- Listen To Your Mother DC May 6, 2012 – selected as one of 14 performers in the debut of the national show
- UN Foundation Shot@Life Fundraiser Co-Host April 20, 2012
- Women in Government Relations Conference March 2012: Panelist for “Work-Life Balance – Does It Really Exist?”
Read Me Elsewhere:
- Is Accepting a child’s Facebook request opening Pandora’s Box?: 10/6/2011
- Will the “Brat Ban” Spread to DC?: 10/19/2011
- Prolonging Girlhood: An Inconvenient Truth: 11/14/11
- Enough Already of “Work-Life Balance”: 12/6/11
- On Praising Tomboys & Rejecting Feminine Boys: 1/9/12
- Launching the Lunar New Year of I Am Awesome: 1/25/12
- Superior French Babies? Vraiment?: 2/8/12
- On Surviving Childhood: 2/27/12
- Hey, You, American Parent, Apparently You Suck: 3/6/2012
- Past Moi Hates Current Moi: When Judging Parents Blows Up In Your Face: 4/10/12
- Screw Perfection, Listen to Real Mothers: 5/2/2012
- The Bad Attitude Guide to Surviving Epic Pepco Power Outages: 7/10/12
- The Glass Ceiling & Marissa Mayer: 10/4/12
- Disney’s Merida “Makeover”: A View from the official coronation at Walt Disney World: 5/16/13
Washingtonian Magazine January 2013 –Winter Wonderland
Washingtonian Magazine July 2012 “Best of Washington” issue:
Washingtonian Magazine
August 2012 ” Great Day Trips” issue:
July 2011 “Best of Washington” issue – “Happiest Birthdays” article – wrote on best vendors for kids birthday parties
Washingtonian Magazine Babes Around the Beltway Parenting Blogger February 2011 – May 2011:
- Confessions of a Stroller Addict: 5/17/2011
- Baby-as-Accessory Parenting “Mommy Wars Version 2.0?” : 5/10/2011
- You’ve Come a Long Way Mom Reconciling our pre-parenthood selves with our current selves: 5/3/2011
- When Do Home Births Go Too Far?: 4/27/2011
- On Disciplining Kids Channeling my inner Betty Draper – or was it Tiger Mom?: 4/20/2011
- The Meltdown Meter: Bunnyland: 4/22/2011
- Should Happy Meal Toys Be Banned? : 4/14/2011
- Kids Birthday Parties in Washington: 4/12/2011
- Getting Over the Shame Cycle of Messiness How denial helps me cope with the messiness in my house: 4/5/2011
- Are Certain Foods Sabotaging My Baby’s Sleep? News About Food Dye Research Worth a Careful Look: 3/29/2011
- Baby Geniuses: Is it Art? 3/22/2011
- Parenting Karma In Parenthood, everything comes full circle: 3/14/2011
- Pepco Blues When the electricity goes out, sharing a common enemy with your toddler doesn’t bind you together: 3/8/2011
- Winning the Amazing Race: 2/17/2011
