Good Golly, It's Molly
Name: Molly Fay
Kids: daughter, age 9; son, age 5; daughter, age 3
Work: host, The Morning Blend on TODAY'S TMJ4
Favorite part of being a mom: The little moments -- that sweet snapshot in time and you know you'll never have that exact same moment again.
Least favorite part about being a mom: Yelling at my kids, knowing how much I'll regret it later.
A great day: Cleaning the basement or organizing my closet -- really!
November 2008 - Posts
By Molly Fay
Tuesday, Nov 18 2008, 12:17 PM
I was shocked to hear today's Morning Blend guest say that kids today are making better decisions than their parents did when they were teenagers! Could it be true?! What does it say about me that a statement like that would come as such a big surprise? As an example, the author guest said drinking among college freshmen is down about 35% over the past 10 years. She gave other specifics, too. What isn't surprising is that our style of parenting has a lot to do with the choices our kids make -- bad and good. That's a lot of pressure on us parents!
The author wrote a book about parenting in the 21st century. In this age of overscheduling our kids and the internet it's more important than ever for parents to know what our kids our doing, especially when it comes to technology. This guest suggests that we understand text messaging, cell phone usage (her son logged 3,000 texts in just one month!!!) and social network sites like Facebook and My Space. It's a lot harder in today's world to be up on all that stuff.
When I was a kid - my parents would make a call to Susie's house, just to make sure her parents were home for the party and that I would be sleeping over there and not somewhere else. Today we've gotta be so techno-savvy to keep tabs on our kids. It's tough to be a kid in today's world -- but it's also tough to be a parent, wouldn't you agree?
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By Molly Fay
Tuesday, Nov 4 2008, 11:23 AM
November 4th, 2008
Today “Thunder” was on our show. You remember her - she was the wife part of the husband/wife singing duo, Lightning & Thunder. They sang Neil Diamond songs and hit every summer festival in Milwaukee back when they were popular. Lightning died a few years ago, but his story and the couple’s love story is now part of a documentary which will premiere in Milwaukee this Thursday. It’s called “Song Sung Blue”. It’s supposed to be a very bittersweet and sometimes brutal film detailing the couple’s true-life story. It even won a Sundance Film Festival award for best documentary in 2008. Anyway, Thunder was a great guest today, especially because she gave us some gossip at the end of the segment. She piped up and said she wanted to share some “election gossip” as she called it and went on to say that when she was much younger she kissed Sheldon Wasserman! Wasserman, as you know, is running for a state sentate seat. She said they “made out”!!! I would love to know what Wasserman thinks about her comment! I asked if he was a good kisser, but I don’t even remember what she said because I was so shocked by her revealing secret. That’s the kind of stuff that keeps our show FRESH!
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