Wilmette Mom Goes from Blogging to Toy Ambassador

Armed with an education degree, two growing boys, and a Nerf gun or two, one Wilmette mom shares her playful career.

Wilmette Mom Goes from Blogging to Toy Ambassador

Armed with an education degree, two growing boys, and a Nerf gun or two, one Wilmette mom shares her playful career.

Meredith Sinclair, who blogs and video blogs on her website HOO-DEE-HOO, has made it her life’s work to share with moms ways to enjoy play, messes, fashion and fun. The Wilmette mom has combined her love of live television, teaching, and sharing stories to form her own fascinating career evolution. A Career Change “I started out as a teacher,” Sinclair says of her master’s degree in elementary education. “A lot of my ideas of play stem from there. I love the environment of the classroom.” After a relocation for her husband’s job, she worked as an educational consultant for a Pittsburgh children’s museum and for a local PBS station. “I looked at the children’s shows for the PBS station and helped them make sure that they were educationally …

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Local Voices: A Note From Arianna Huffington, President and Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post Media Group

We are launching a great new chapter for Patch.com, the national network of hyperlocal sites currently covering community life in 800 towns across America.

When Kenny Lerer and I started The Huffington Post on May 9, 2005, we would have been hard-pressed to imagine this moment. With The Huffington Post, the idea was to take the sort of conversations found around dinner tables and at book parties–about politics and books and art and music and food and sex–and put them online, open them up, and invite interesting people to participate, creating a one-stop site for news and opinion with an attitude, in real-time. Our merger with AOL, Patch's parent company, in February, allowed us to broadcast those conversations to a much wider audience. By combining The Huffington Post's attitude, journalistic acumen, and sheer energy with AOL's resources and technical expertise, we were able, as we say, to …

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