As a parent you want to raise kids who are happy and healthy, and these ways to build your kids confidence will make that easy to do. From the day they are born you only want great things for your children. Focus on their strengths and abilities to help them become strong and independent individuals that will be successful in every area of their lives. 7 Ways To Build Your Kids' Confidence Encourage their strengths. This comes as early as babyhood when you praise them for doing the right … [Read more...]
Sun Safety: Teaching Kids To Protect Their Skin
Summer is the perfect time to create great homeschool lessons for your kids on the topic of Sun Safety. Teaching kids to protect their skin isn't just about education, but practicality. Most kids don't understand why they have to stop and slather on sunscreen before heading outside to play, but once they have experienced the pain of sunburn it becomes clear. No parent wants to see their child be sunburned, so being an advocate for sun safety in kids is important. Using this as a great … [Read more...]
7 Tips for Sun Safety for Kids
We want to protect our kids in every way possible, even from the sun. That’s why it’s important to follow these seven tips for sun safety for kids because keeping our most precious asset safe is super important.Pick out a favorite hatWhen it comes to getting kids to protect themselves from the sun it can be hard. However, hats seem to be the most appropriate accessory for kids who need sun protection. Allow them to have a hand in picking out their own hats.Cool sunglasses are … [Read more...]
Protect Your Skin Tips + Ideas
I received Coolibar products to help facilitate my review. All opinions are my own.I'm very concerned about skin. At the young age of 23, long before anyone should have to deal with skin cancer, I had skin cancer. Then a couple of years later I had it again. I know part of it is genetics because my Dad has had various forms of cancer throughout his life. As a pre-teen I wasn't as careful with my skin as I should have been. I would often swim at a friend's house without sunscreen, or only … [Read more...]
How Water Helps Weightloss
Starting a weight loss program is hard enough. It can not only be overwhelming, but it can be mentally and physically challenging. It's hard to know where to start! That is why I recommend starting with one simple step. Water. It's an easy step to start with. Everyone can do it! Here is how it is going to help you with weight loss:Ice it up! Drink your water over ice or cold. Your body will have to burn calories to warm up the water and it's a win-win! Hydration AND calorie burning. Keep … [Read more...]
Receiving Care at Home with Doctor on Demand
I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf of Influence Central for Doctor On Demand. I received a free trial coupon code to facilitate my review as well as a promotional item to thank me for my participation.Getting to the doctor can be hard. I am usually able to take my kids without a problem but when I need to go, that gets a little tricky. When I go to the doctor I don't want to bring all my kids with me, I just want to go in and out. I am a little scared of all the germs … [Read more...]
Creating a Healthy Meal Plan
We have previously talked about how to start meal planning. Now let's talk about making those meals healthy.After you have selected the food choices that you enjoy eating, go through to make sure that you don’t have too much of one thing over others. Color coding types of meals can help in doing this. If you have young children who are picky, finding healthy ways to eat the foods that they like is a beneficial option in the balancing phase of meal planning.Be sure to fit in 2-3 cups of … [Read more...]
Tips to Overcome Emotional Eating
Like most people, I started the year feeling optimistic and hopefully. There were many projects on the horizon that seemed to be falling into place and it seemed like it was going to be "my year." Well we are not even a week into the new year and all of those projects have disappeared leaving me feel defeated and surprised. I was not expecting to be ready to end the year before we even finished the first week.In the past, I would have taken these feelings of defeat, depression, … [Read more...]
Take Your Workout to the Next Level with Jabra Pulse Sport Wireless at Best Buy
The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free. With the New Year here many people have probably added working out, losing weight, becoming healthy and/or joining a gym to their New Year's Resolutions! Jabra wants to help make these goals a lot more fun and effective with the Jabra Pulse Sport Wireless earbuds found at Best Buy. Jabra Sport Pulse Wireless is an all-in-one training solution … [Read more...]
Tips for Staying Healthy in Winter
Winter is a wonderful time of year where colds and the flu are prevalent. After having children, I began researching healthier alternatives to many things including immunity. I would love to share with you some tips that have worked for my family for keeping healthy this winter. Let’s begin with some healthy living strategies that should be your goal year round. By doing so, when sickness strikes, your body is strong and ready to fight it!Frequently wash (and dry) your hands. This is … [Read more...]
7 Ways to Overcome Picky Eating
If you have a picky eater in the house you probably have spent many a meal wringing your hands in frustration, sighing the sigh of tired moms begging their child to take just one bite, and bargaining with them just to get a few bites in their bellies. While I won’t lie and tell you I have a foolproof way to get your kid’s to eat better I have learned a few things that make getting the little critics to eat a bit more healthy food. 7 Ways to Overcome Picky Eating 1. Start offering them … [Read more...]
Eating with a Purpose is Hard
This is NOT a sponsored post. This is me needing a place to discuss my frustrations and feelings. Sorry this is a novel, I just need to finally tell everyone about my health plan and release my frustrations of how hard it is! If you can relate or have support, please leave a comment.I need to talk. I have been on a weightloss/ optimal health journey for a couple of weeks now, and it's taking its toll. I've mostly kept this on the down low because I didn't want to talk about it … [Read more...]
10 Quick Kitchen Design Hacks That Trick Your Brain into Eating Smarter
Habit is often simplified to "if I do something enough times, I'll just get used to it and then I'll do it automatically". However, anyone who has tried to get into a healthy new habit knows that even after the 100th great salad, chocolate still tastes fantastic. Conveniently, in the case of eating at home, there are ways to make the kitchen work for your habit, instead of against it. Here are some tips that require minimal purchase or and no major home construction – yet immediately can yield … [Read more...]
Prepared With Poise
Thanks to Poise for sponsoring todays conversation. All opinions are completely my own.Sometimes I need to cover some sensitive topics on the blog. Things that happen to a lot of us but we don't like to talk about. Today let's chat about light bladder leakage. 1 in 3 women experience light bladder leakage (LBL) so it is a huge problem. Even though the problem is huge and potentially very embarrassing, there is a micro solution to the problem.Poise Microliners are thin and instantly … [Read more...]
LISTERINE: The Oral Health Heros at Our House
I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf of Influence Central for LISTERINE. I received samples for this review and a promotional item to thank me for participating.In the past year, oral health has had an increased focus at our house and some of the things that have helped us to do that are these products from LISTERINE.Whenever I think of LISTERINE I always think of mouth wash but they also offer other oral health care products that I really like. FlossThere are … [Read more...]
