Category: Relationship

Healthy food of the week: Pulled Pork, Baked Beans, and Corn on the Cob Healthy leftover idea: pulled pork burritos We haven’t used the Crock Pot in a while so here’s a great meal that takes less than 5 minutes to prepare but tastes wonderful given you have 6-8 hours to let the pork roast …

Nowadays we lead a busy and fast life, but sometimes we can realize that we do not find the right time to take care of our health. Long hours of travel, irregular eating habits and sometimes inadequate time to rest affect our health and our health suffers. Very elaborately, back and joint pain are just …

I often find myself thinking, “they (ie other moms) should know better than that,” or “isn’t that a little rude?”, or “I can’t believe they think that’s cool.” Maybe since I’m older, I was raised when there were certain social graces that everyone knew how to follow. But now, many moms behave in ways that …

The best parenting aid in the world would be if every young child came with an individual owner’s manual to help parents through the difficult times of childhood. Sure, there is plenty of helpful advice from other moms, dads, and professionals, but every child is different, with a different temperament, so parents often end up …

What comes to mind when you think of a little boy? I bet it’s a picture of a crawling baby surrounded by toys. Toys and children are inseparable. You cannot think of a child without a toy and a toy without a child. We all have memories from our childhood where we acquired them through …

As the mother of a six-year-old girl who is already signing autographs, many parents have asked me what I did to develop her talent. Do you attend a public or private school? Do I homeschool or contract private tutors? What activities do I put it in? How did I first realize that she might have …

A friend of mine thought she read somewhere that Cheerios are okay for breakfast on the candida diet if you must eat cereal. She wonders if that’s true because now she can’t seem to find it in her book and she’s desperate for breakfast. This is his first breakfast and this morning he tried oatmeal, …

Whether we’ve become empty nesters or following the latest decluttering trend, many of us baby boomers are downsizing. That means less space for all those sentimental family heirlooms passed down from generation to generation and things we’ve carefully collected over our lifetime. We can assume that our children will be delighted when we give them …

Self-confidence plays such an important role in our lives on a daily basis. Most of the time we just get on with our day without even thinking about how self-confident we feel—that is, until we’re faced with a big decision or need to accomplish a certain task and expect to get it right. Therefore, creating …