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Christine Coppa

Christine Coppa is the author of the Target Breakout Book, Rattled! (Broadway Books, 2009) and the founding blogger of glamour.com's Storked! blog. A professional writer/editor, she's contributed to Glamour, Marie Claire (Australia), First, In Touch, Pregnancy magazine among other publications. Her work has been buzzed about in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and on ABC's 20/20. The Sunday London Times called her a writer "at the forefront of a wave of modern moms who are reinventing the parental publishing genre." Coppa lives in North Jersey with her son Jack Domenic and has no problem admitting that her Marc Jacobs bag is often filled with Matchbox cars.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 09:43
Do You Let Your Child Watch Adult Programming?
by Christine Coppa
Mama's Boy
As a single mom, I really value the time my brothers and dad spend with JD (Look at my dad and JD at this old car show - squuueee!).. I think it’s really important that JD get regular guy-to-guy time. What that means, well...last night when my brother, Carlo, was over I found myself biting my tongue.Read Full Post
Monday, June 20, 2011 - 11:54
Talking To Other Parents About Stuff That Bothers You
by Christine Coppa
Mama's Boy
Everyone knows I’m a single mom raising a little boy—especially people I see out and about who, I assume, consider me a friend, hmmm?? Well, something is soooo bugging me and I know I need to say something before I snap. There’s a family we see often. Picture a mom, dad and four little girls. Picture pink, princesses and tutus x 1000. Do I care my son plays with these girls or picks up their dolls? NOPE. Am I over the dad in this scenario telling my son he’s a wimp and making comments to his wife, I am supposed to hear, but it’s like they’re being said with me not in the room? “I can tease boys! Boys are supposed to be tough.” FUMING. My plan is…Read Full Post
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 21:34
A Shot in the Dark: My Interview with Adrian Grenier
by Christine Coppa
Mama's Boy
Before he drove us crazy in Drive Me Crazy, or went by Vincent Chase with an Entourage at his side, Adrian Grenier was a kid from New York City who was raised by a single mom. In his directorial debut, actor-musician-filmmaker Adrian Grenier, embarks on a personal quest to find the biological father he only had here and there encounters with. Shot in the Dark, now available on DVD, chronicles Grenier’s on-the-road journey, capturing a private, emotional side of the actor. Ultimately, Grenier finds his father in Ohio and after a series of sometimes, awkward phone calls, finally meets with him.Read Full Post
Monday, June 13, 2011 - 12:03
Does Your Child Look Like You? (Or The Absent Parent?)
by Christine Coppa
Mama's Boy
It was a gloomy weekend in NJ. I made the best of it and took JD to a Warhol exhibit at The Montclair Art Museum. The entire collection was focused on cars and if you’ve been reading my blog for some time now, you know JD is obsessed with all things cars. On the twenty-minute drive to the museum I told him that we were going to a place with cool pictures on the wall and that they were all of cars. “Can I play with them?” he asked. I told him, no, but followed it up by telling him we were going on a scavenger hunt for different colored cars and to count all of the wheels we saw. He got very excited.Read Full Post
Friday, June 10, 2011 - 12:54
What's For Dinner?
by Christine Coppa
Mama's Boy
My mom friend, Amy, and I often BBM each other with notes like: “Lily ate Cheerios and a banana for dinner.” My response: “JD had a (one) chicken finger, a tree of broccoli and 12 pieces of watermelon—is that enough?" Amy had us over for dinner last week and we both sounded like a broken record: “One more bite. Eat this—then you can play. Half-a-bite?” Our kids are hardly babies, but every now and then we admit to spoon-feeding, just to get calories in. Read Full Post
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 20:43
Single Mom Raising A Son Sans Dad
by Christine Coppa
Mama's Boy
I’m probably going to get my butt kicked for saying this, but Carla Facciolo from Vh1’s Mob Wives said something that bothered me on one of the episodes I, yes, faithfully watched and thoroughly enjoyed (it’s fine). Her husband, Joey Ferragamo is in jail, so she is essentially a single mom. She has young twins (a boy and a girl) under 10 and they don’t know dad is in jail, because Carla chose to tell them he is away working. This isn’t what bothers me, alarmingly!Read Full Post
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 08:01
Choosing Your Child's Religion
by Christine Coppa
Mama's Boy
I feel like I should be confessing this to a priest and not online, but JD and I do not attend mass every, single Sunday. We are Roman Catholic and JD was baptized when he was three-months-old. His godparents are my older brother, Carlo and my best friend, Katie (who lives in our building). I’m not saying we don’t attend church, because we have—we do. I am saying it’s a little challenging and has nothing to do with sleeping in and missing mass, because we’re up at 6 A.M. every, single day. I guess, it’s more that the times I have taken JD to the children’s mass at our parish he’s just gotten bored, cried, ran away from me—acted like a three-year-old.Read Full Post
Friday, June 3, 2011 - 16:19
Boom! We All Fall Down: Zuma Rossdale Broke His Arm
by Christine Coppa
Mama's Boy
Doesn’t it, for lack of better words, suck, when our kids get hurt -- on our watch? This week Erin at Parenting Post blogged about her daughter Nora’s run-in with a plastic cup—she needed stiches! JD hasn’t had stitches yet (knock on wood), but he’s been to the ER two times to check his head. When he was nearly two, he tripped and fell in the Moma. He didn’t fall from a great height and I don’t even know if he hit his head, but he did doing a scary breath-holding thing and nearly passed out. I was alone in NYC with him—and hysterical. I calmed him down and drove to NJ. The whole I was singing and keeping him wide awake. Before I went home, I went to the ER. He was fine.Read Full Post
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - 22:04
Father's Day 2011: Who Stands In At The Dad Party At School?
by Christine Coppa
Mama's Boy
When I picked JD up from school yesterday I cleaned out my parent mailbox that was stuffed (red face) with art, the June calendar, a birthday party thank you card from JD’s friend, the June tuition bill (hi!)—and an invitation for JD’s dad to attend, “Fun With Father’s!” It’s Friday, June 17th at 9:30 A.M. at the school and is the equivalent of Muffins with Mom, which was held last month to celebrate Mother’s Day—I attended with bells on a cute dress on, of course.Read Full Post
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 14:07
Confused About Child Support? Read This.
by Christine Coppa
Mama's Boy
Welcome back to segment 3 of Mama’s Boy ongoing single parent Q & A. Today, Celeste Liversidge, Family Law Attorney and author of Last One Down the Aisle Wins: Ten Keys to a Fabulous Single Life Now & Even Better Marriage Later, answers key questions about child support. Read on…Read Full Post

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