Biography

Yakini Etheridge

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Dr. Yakini Etheridge is a wife, full-time working mother of two young boys, and owner/founder of the PrissyMommy brand and blogs. She is a New York City based clinical psychologist and freelance lifestyle writer who has written authoritatively about personal development, home-making, beauty wellness, and social media. Fueled by her love of writing, Yakini created PrissyMommy.com while pregnant and in an effort to include out-of-state family and friends in her life during this exciting and busy time.  Yakini enjoys spending time with her boys, photography, cake decorating, and social media.  She loves connecting with moms online and offline, sharing ideas, swapping recipes, exchanging silly kid stories, and supporting one another.  Through her blogging she has enjoyed showing other parents what products are out there, how it can benefit their family, and whether it’s worth buying or not.

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Latest Blog Posts

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03/27/2012

Our Playroom Makeover!

These days our kids’ playroom has started to resemble a F.A.O. Schwartz warehouse. Sound exciting??? Well… not so much. After a particularly long and exhausting day of cleaning/straightening their room,…

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03/13/2012

The Barber Shop Experience

Photo Credit: Picture-Book My husband and I looked forward to the day our oldest son would have his first haircut. It wasn’t that we didn’t love his hair – to…

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03/09/2012

Beating the Winter Blues!

Brrrr, it’s sooo dreary outside these days in NYC! And with this awful weather the days just seem to get shorter and the nights colder, don’t they? Even the best…

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02/28/2012

Taking a TV “Time-Out”

Photo Credit: Sports Illustrated for Kids I read an article recently addressing today’s kids’ TV habits. After I read it, I started experiencing all sorts of parental guilt, namely, because…

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02/09/2012

School Lunch Ideas for the Picky Eater

My 1-year-old loves food so much that he is pretty open to trying most things. However, my 3-year-old is a whole other story. I’ve mentioned before that he can be…

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