July 5th, 2007 by admin

Child Friendly Recipes

by Audrey Okaneko

 Kids like to help in the kitchen. Kids enjoy cooking. I think one of my favorite recipes for kids is Dump Cake.  This is literally a cake where you dump everything into the baking dish and then bake. Read the rest of this entry »

June 26th, 2007 by admin

How to Avoid Kids’ Blood Sugar “Spike and Crash”

by Missy Chase Lapine

 Kids love roller coasters. Moms don’t — well, at least not the ones that take place inside our homes! I’m talking about the “spike and crash” syndrome that describes the rapid ups and downs of children’s blood sugar levels when they eat too much sugar and overly processed carbs, especially on an empty stomach. Read the rest of this entry »

June 15th, 2007 by admin

 Time To Connect With Your Teen 

by Tammy M Pinarbasi 

While on a recent trip to the grocery store, I happened to hear a mother telling her teenage daughter not to answer her ringing cell phone. Of course, the daughter explained to her mother that “she just had to answer it” As the mother was in the middle of stating how she barely gets two minutes of her daughters time in a day, and her daughter answering the ever so “important” call anyways, all I could think was how much I could relate with this poor woman. Read the rest of this entry »