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We’re all influenced by someone or several someones, whether it’s a teacher from your past or a colleague you’ve just started working with.  Personally, I’ve been influenced by our fearless leader here at Type-A, Kelby Carr, my daughters who push me daily to be a better person, and grandfather, Gilbert Louden, who never let me settle for good enough.  I love to read about how people have touched each others lives, that’s why I was so intrigued by BlogFrog’s latest campaign introducing the Blog Frog Influencer’s circle.  Just this week, Kelby shared who her top influencers are in the blogging community and included three very lovely and successful women who don’t apologize for who they are.  Emily, from Colorado Moms, wrote a beautiful post on the women who have influenced her career coming off the heels of BlogHer where you’re constantly surrounded by influential and inspiring women.  Amy of GreebleMonkey also shared her influencer choices, all of which are entertaining, engaging, and full of witty reparte.

Also going on in the Parent Blogosphere:

Traveling to Maine?  Julie, from Julieverse, gives you some valuable advice for enjoying a family trip up to Maine and making the most out of lobster town.

The Party BluPrints Blog reminds us this week to support women who’s husbands are giving so much of themselves.  Since 2007, Operation Shower has showered over 450 pregnant women and next week they’re surprising moms to be in NY, learn more about the program.

It’s time for school to start back around the US and thanks to Catherine over at Evolving Mommy you’ve got the inside scoop on the 5 tools to make school lunches more fun.  She’s included everything from cloth reusable snack bags to Japanese food picks.

Take on a fun project with your family this weekend and teach them in the process by building a marble roller coaster out of duct tape, marbles, and foam pipe insulation.

Give your teachers what they want with one of these 10 teacher’s gift ideas that are perfect for back-to-school from Making Time for Mommy.

So tell me what I missed! Share your best posts from the last week in our linky!  The only requirements are:

• You should be a parent who blogs
• The post must have been published between August 3 to 10, 2012
• You MUST use the permalink to the post itself, not your blog’s homepage URL

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About the author: HighImpactMom (70 Posts)

As Chief Blogging Mama at High Impact Mom, Amanda encounters all sorts of madness as she publishes High Impact Mom, corrals two busy daughters, manages a successful hyper-local digital marketing company, attends college full-time, and occasionally even finds time for a date with her husband. Amanda is a social media addict, a compulsive volunteer, and a hard rocking-Jane Austen reading devoted mama...she might also a little bit crazy. Follow her on Twitter at @highimpactmom.