UpSpring Baby’s Momerati is a weekly digest featuring the best of the best from our favorite parenting blogs around the web. If you have a submission/suggestion for next week’s digest, please email amanda@upspringbaby.com.

Check out BabyToBeTV’s casting submission video for Project Mom, a new reality series!

Classy Mommy gives us a review of the brand new Zac Efron film, Charlie St. Cloud.

Daddy Types features a chair that rocks (figuratively and literally).  It’s just gorgeous!!!

Get a play-by-play description of Bab’s first baseball game on the extremely funny Life of Dad.

Do you know how to spot dehydration in children?  Take the quiz on Lil Sugar.

SAHD in Lansing has a list of ten great websites you must read if you have a daughter.

Feeling unmotivated?  Then read The Work At Home Woman’s guide to summer fitness for mompreneurs.

The lovely and talented Shara of the popular Mamalicious Finds delighted us by posting a review of Shrinkx Hips on her popular blog.  (She even posted photos of herself wearing it!)   Naturally, I had to contact her to find out more details. In a short interview she told me:

“I had never heard of post pregnancy support belts until I had the chance to try one for a review. I thought it would be interesting to see how it worked since it was my 3rd pregnancy. I was wearing a size 16 right after delivery and went down to a size 10 (my pre-pregnancy size) within 4 weeks…way sooner than with my previous 2 pregnancies.”

Hooray for real moms using Shrinkx Hips to get back into shape after their babies!  And thanks for taking the time to talk to us about your success, Shara!

If you have had success using Shrinkx Hips or any of UpSpring Baby’s products please email amanda@upspringbaby.com to be featured on our blog.

I thought the Flip camera was a cool invention when it came out, but now that I’ve figured out a way to improve my kids’ behavior with it I think it’s even more amazing.

We have a family Flip video recorder that my kids used to make family movies of everything from plastic army men attacking plastic horses to capturing funny moments of Jeff on the potty to the dogs doing tricks.  I even started to carry the bright orange Flip Camera in my purse in an attempt to catch my 7-year-old doing his “Peanut Butter Cup Dance” which only comes out when I beg and plead him to do it.  (It is hilarious people.  When I catch it on tape I will put it on the blog.)

One night we were at the Grove Restaurant in Austin, Texas for my mom’s birthday, (a/k/a “Nonna”).  I saw it coming from a mile away.  The waiter placed the menus on our table and Nonna picked her seat and Grace and Reece flew to grab the seat next to her on the right.  This is when the arguing and mild shoving started to occur.  I don’t know what possessed me but I took the Flip Camera out of my purse and filmed every bit of their fight.  Later I reviewed the recording with them to see how silly it was to fight over a seat and asked them if there was another solution besides fighting.   Sure enough, Grace said “Gosh, mom I could have just sat on Nonna’s left side!”

So thank you to the Flip Camera creators for inventing a truly useful parenting tool.  All I have to do now is start to pull the camera out of my purse and Grace and Reece change their behavior immediately.  There is something about watching themselves act like buffoons on the Flip that works to my complete benefit.

Go get yourself a Flip and say goodbye to sibling rivalry.  Peace Out!

UpSpring Baby’s Momerati is a weekly digest featuring the best of the best from our favorite parenting blogs around the web. If you have a submission/suggestion for next week’s digest, please email amanda@upspringbaby.com.

Watch this helpful video about Morning Sickness Cures on Parents Ask.

In this episode of DadLabs, Daddy Clay and Daddy Brad discuss how dads and moms deal with the aftermath of handing out punishment to their children.

Read DadWagon’s thoughts on Death & Dinosaurs.

Is having one child easier than having two or more?  Lil Sugar has a poll and wants to know your opinion.

Mommy Q wants to know, “If I Were Rich Like Brangelina, Would My Kids Eat Cheetos?”

Peek into the hidden world of Male Breastfeeding on Life of Dad.

SAHD in Lansing has a list of 10 Movies that made him cry (and he’s not ashamed to admit it)!

Have a look at the drool-worthy Momcation in Cabo San Lucas that Savvy Sassy Moms just took!