In this day and age we are bombarded with mixed messages about which foods we should be eating and which foods we should avoid. Over and over again new studies reveal that eating this food will help prevent cancer, while eating this one may cause it! After seeing information on TV, different articles in every [...]
Just getting through the work day, the school day, and other obligations can leave you and your teenage kids feeling pressed for time. Are you both finding it hard to fit in fitness? According to the U.S. National Association for Sport and Physical Education, children should accumulate at least 60 minutes, and up to several hours, of age-appropriate physical activity on all or most days of the week. Getting your child to enjoy exercise and movement doesn’t have to be a fancy or expensive proposition.
High food prices, even higher fuel prices, and home mortgages turning ‘upside down’; that unfortunate circumstance when the value of a home devalues to a point below the outstanding mortgage. Hectic lives where relationships have almost, or already, reached the breaking point, and stress isn’t being removed from our lives anymore,instead it’s being ‘managed’.
Chores for kids are good for everyone in the family. We need kids to do chores to teach them responsibility, to be a contributing member to the family, and relieve our workload. You’ll be amazed at how much more organized you will be once you get your kids to do their chores.
More parents find their children are too busy learning to go to school. Over 1.5 million American children are learning at home and that number is growing, according to the Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics. Discover the benefits of homeschooling and why kids thrive without school.
There is an old adage about a group of people in a boat, all paddling as hard as they can, but getting nowhere. The moral of that tale is that in order to make progress, everyone in the boat needs to paddle in the same direction.
For many years, household emergency back-up plans typically held bare-minimum supplies, meant to last a week in most cases, and in a rare few families, a month. Both of these families were held up as fine example, for the most part rightly so, as emergency preparedness planning revolved around a disruption to the distribution of [...]
The natural love that parents hold for their children is tremendous. In all but the most unusual of cases, parents want only the best for their children. But despite this, many parents harm their children through actions intended to harm or retaliate toward the other parent.
