crazedparent is a blog with random riffs about parenting and life by Charlene Prince Birkeland. Charlene lives in Silicon Valley with her husband, two sons, Six and Q., and her lab puppy, Luna (also known as Luna Lovegood, Luna Negra, Looney Luna, LuLu and Damn Dog). But you can blame her kids for exposing her to the world of the crazed parent and she started this blog in 2004.

Charlene is the parenting editor of Shine, a new women's site by Yahoo! that was launched in March 2008. Most recently she was the editor of the online parenting community, Maya's Mom, which was recently acquired by BabyCenter. Charlene's work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, with stories that focus on cool families with creative homes; child-friendly gardens; and introspective essays on parenting. She was one of Disney's Parenting Team Advisors for Disney Interactive Group's Family.com, and has written parenting articles for the site.

She also served as the the editor-in-chief of the women's work/life balance blog, JobMom, and was a staff writer for two leading parenting-related blog networks.

Charlene's writing has appeared in Forbes, HallMark Magazine, on NBC News and AOL. Her personal blog, crazedparent, has been featured as one of the best parenting blogs on the Web in the 2006 and 2005 issues of Blogosphere: Best of Blogs. Most recently, it was highlighted in 7x7 San Franciso's Cyper Patrol column.

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Contact Charlene at charlene AT crazedparent DOT org