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Back-to-School Brain Boosters

By Kymythy R. Schultze, C.N.
http://www.kymythy.com/
When your child’s verbal loop switches from “I’m bored, there’s nothing to do” to “I don’t wanna go to school!” you know the time has come to do your parental duty and properly prepare them for another academic year. You’ll buy them notebooks, backpacks, pencils and books. But, are you also [...]

Expecting and Expectations:Are You and Your Spouse on the Same Page?

By Joanne Baum
www.respectfulparenting.com
When you’re pregnant you soon become full of expectations.  You dream about what your baby will be like, you dream about how you and hour husband will parent.  You dream about how you will handle any problems that come up.  You dream about being a family and how family life will be.  You [...]

Homemade Baby Food: A Fresh Start to Healthy Eating

By Cheryl Tallman and Joan Ahlers
Introducing solid foods is a very important step in your baby’s development and well-being. In fact,  studies show that babies who are fed nutritious, healthy diets grow into stronger kids and better-adjusted eaters than those who are fed poor diets.
Many parents don’t realize that making baby food at home is [...]

Back Up Your Child’s Diet

By Alan Greene, MD
www.DrGreene.com
You know that it is wise to back up your computer’s hard drive; I recommend backing up your child’s food drive with a daily multivitamin/mineral supplement. This simple habit could improve your child’s health and even intelligence. I’ll explain briefly why I feel strongly about this:
Raising Baby Green Dr. Alan Greene infant [...]

Sugar Pushers at Work: How to Refuse Sweets & Embrace Sanity

By Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C.
If you go to an office every day, you’ve undoubtedly been at the mercy of co-workers, who can best be dubbed “sugar pimps.”
No disrespect intended, but I’m sure you know to whom I’m referring.
You know, those sweetly smiling, eager-to-please colleagues who continually proffer cakes, cookies and donuts with such polite insistence that, [...]