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The Go-To Mom.TV turns 5 Years Old This Year! My Interview with .TV on How I Got This Far…
Back in December 2006, I was the entire crew of my show. I’ve come a long way since then and I’m so thankful and energized at where I’m going. Thank you Verisign/.TV for the interview above!
Back in 2006, I wanted to film a TV pilot for cable called, “The Go-To Mom,” where I’d offer fun-loving and expert advice to viewers who were raising young children. I wrote a script, lined up the moms who were to be featured and looked for a Hollywood crew to film it. I had hopes of shopping it around.
I had a baby that summer and had no time to carry this out, plus my hubby got booked on a long job so I had no help. In frustration I set up my old Sony Handycam and began to film short 2-minute parenting segments. I hired a web tech to create a site for me. I loaded the first 12 shows and shopped them around to parenting destination websites. Within 5 months a few large sites bought my amateur shows. They liked the my credentials and that I was a licensed child and family therapist. It also helped that I loved to film video and kept the costs very low.
That model didn’t last for long. I couldn’t keep up with the work load. I priced my shows too low. I couldn’t pump them out as fast as I promised. Plus I was letting the sponsor own them at the time. Currently we license the shows and now have a pro crew. At first I was the writer, camera-gal, editor and host. Today I am the sole executive producer. I have many cameramen, editors, co-hosts, large scale sponsors and new sister site called www.MommytoMommy.TV.
What once was a frustrating attempt to create a TV pilot has turned into an amazing and very rewarding business. Twitter raised my visibility and inspired me to write a book called, “The Internet Mommy.” Since that book, Jossey Bass/Wiley Sons bought my last book, “Emotion Coaching Young Children.” I am so thankful for those who continue to be a part of my platform and my social media campaign. My children inspire all my creativity and I am so humbled by them. They are my greatest teachers. The moms who co-host with me are my greatest supporters and I know I’d be nowhere with them. Truly.
If you have not seen my shows! Please take a look. I’d love to hear from you! Where there’s a child, there’s usually a parent with a question…
My best,
Kimberley
The Not So Perfect Parent
The other day on a quick errand, I was walking through the parking lot of Target. I saw a beautiful little girl in a yellow sundress laying on the grease-spotted ground next to her mom’s SUV crying her eyes out. Her mother squatted next to her, gently consoling her. I smiled because this was the essence of real parenting – compassion – whenever and where ever our children need it.
Fifteen minutes later I left the store with 4T underwear in one hand and cat food in the other. I could see the SUV was still there and I figured they must be inside the car trying to regroup. As I passed, I nonchalantly peered in the back window and to my surprise I saw the mom holding her four-year-old in her lap in the back hatch area.
This mom was doing whatever it took to accommodate her little girl and that’s how parenting should be. Sometimes life’s about sitting in your car while holding your distressed child.
There are many days when I’d like to throw in the towel. My kids can send me over the edge. When I’m at my wits end I find myself yelling and threatening. How can that be? After all, I am the Parenting Expert. Even Parenting Experts recognize the challenges of being a parent. Anyone entering parenthood does so with their own unique perspectives, ideals and personal baggage. I have to admit that the weight of my own baggage is what drew me into a helping profession. For years I’ve battled with fact that my parents had children when they clearly didn’t want to – leaving my siblings and I feeling like we were an inconvenience. I wish I could claim I wrote this book because I had a warm and loving upbringing , but I can’t because I didn’t. This quote from Marshall B. Rosenberg depicts the way most parents feel:
“…Every time we’re less than perfect, we’re going to blame ourselves and attack ourselves, our children are not going to benefit from that. So the goal I would suggest is not to be perfect parents, it’s to become progressively less stupid parents – by learning from each time that we’re not able to give our children the quality of understanding that they need, that we’re not able to express ourselves honestly. In my experience, each of these times usually means that we’re not getting the emotional support we need as parents, in order to give our children what they need.”
