Parenting
Controlling Your Digital Life
Let’s face it, a messy digital life is just as bad as a messy living room Increasingly, learning to control one’s digital life is synonymous with controlling life in general, since the digital world is so fully ingrained in our lives. Sure, there’s social media and dumb phone games that ruthlessly steal time. But now, …
Understanding Ovulation and The Best Days to Conceive
Many women trying to conceive are confused about their period, the 28-day cycle and when they’re most likely to get pregnant. When a couple is planning to have a baby, understanding the 28-day cycle can mean the difference between success and disappointment, says Gloria Richard-Davis, MD, Ob/Gyn, fertility specialist and author of Planning Parenthood. Timing …
What is Wrong With Praise and Rewards For Kids?
Written by Jane Nelsen, EdD; Joy Marchese, MA, CPDT, and Kristina Bill One problem with praise and rewards is that they work. Not only that; kids love both, and will often behave better to receive them. Yikes! But hang on, what are our children learning long-term? They are learning to “behave” well to receive validation …
3 Health Issues Women Try to Ignore When they Shouldn’t
Women lead busy lives caring for their children, working, being a good wife, helping friends or family, and trying to maintain good health for themselves. Oftentimes, their health may be the last on their list of priorities, for a number of reasons. An obvious reason is time restraints, but another might be because certain health …
When A Couple Disagrees About Fertility Treatment
There comes a point in time when having children is the top priority for many individuals and couples. When having a child becomes this important, infertility can easily cause tension and contention in a relationship. Couples often struggle to agree on what to do. After 1-2 years of trying with no success, one partner might …
Tricks to Get Your Kids to Eat Their Vegetables
Po-tay-to, Po-tah-to Written by Caitlin Schille, MPH We all know that it’s important to eat our vegetables. Kids are growing and developing, so their bodies need good nutrition– the problem is, it’s really hard to get kids to eat their veggies. So hard, in fact, that results from a recent survey show that on any …
Are Sublingual Vitamins The Best Vitamins?
Sublingual means, by definition, below or beneath the tongue. Seem like a weird place for vitamins? There are some advantages to taking sublingual vitamins, such as, quick absorption, affordability and effectiveness. Think of those big vitamins pills that you take. How do those pills actually work? Just swallowing one of those hefty pills is a …
How to Help with a Child’s Homework the Right Way
The battles, the constant harassing, and the lost papers— is kids’ homework a chore for you? Turns out you’re not alone, a study done by Education Week found that nearly 50 percent of parents struggle to help their children with homework. With expectations constantly rising and with distractions like iPads, iPhones, and extracurriculars increasing it’s …
The Secret to Raising Healthy Kids Starts in the Kitchen
By Joy Stephenson-Laws, JD, Founder The incidence of children with obesity in the United States has more than tripled since the 1970s, according to theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Currently about one in five school-aged children (ages 6-19) are obese. In addition, “about one-third of American youth are overweight, a problem closely related …
5 Ways Parents Can Use Twitter and Snapchat to Help Their Children
Social media sites like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, and Tumblr are swarming around us. How can parents possibly keep up? With the amount of kids using smart phones, it’s nearly impossible to keep away. Instead of fighting it, use social media to your advantage! Here are a few tips and tricks to help use these …