Most parents are worried about the health of their children and their spouse -
and, if they have enough time to think about it, their own health too! These
days the experts tell us that what we eat and the amount we exercise are
all-important. Keep up to date with the latest news and views on healthy eating
and learn how to safeguard your family's health below...
The Uneducated Palate
When did you learn to really enjoy food? How about experiencing taste
and textures? I think children develop a taste for food a lot sooner
than we think.
Healthy Food Means Yucky
Food
So, you are ready to make some changes in your family's diet. You've
heard and read enough to know that eating Real Food is important to your
family's health and happiness. You know what your kids eat when they are
young not only affects their health now, but also in the future...
7 Fat Loss Strategies
For Busy Moms
Would you like to "jump start" your metabolism and lose your ‘mommy
belly' once and for all? If so, the following seven tips are exactly
what you need to improve your workouts and ignite your metabolism.
Overweight Children - What Can A
Parent Do To Help? The latest figures released in the US state that 15 percent of
children and teenagers are now considered overweight, up from 6% 20
years ago. Statistics in the UK are similar, and rising. Whilst children
starve in Africa, kids in the Western world are lining up to suffer a
frightening array of weight-related illnesses, including skin and joint
problems, early osteoporosis, type II diabetes, bowel cancer, high blood
pressure, heart attack and strokes. Recent research also suggests that
obese kids are 77% more likely to suffer from asthma.
Food Ingredients To Avoid
When buying and cooking food for our families, we all want to provide the best
nutrition and the safest produce we can for the price we can afford, as well as
putting together tasty meals that all family members will enjoy. But these days
we hear more and more about the dangers of the chemical additives which have
become commonplace in our foodstuffs. What are these additives, and which ones
should we be avoiding?
Meal Time -
A Family Affair For Many Generations
Having a family mealtime can afford you with a lot more benefits than
you might think. Sure it takes longer, and sure, everyone has to bend
their ever-so-busy schedules to it, but just imagine some of the
wonderful benefits of a family mealtime!
It's Official -
Being A Mum Is Back-breaking! Research into back pain both
during and after pregnancy shows that more than 70 per cent of mums with
children under two suffer from aches and pains.
The
Benefits of Family Meal Planning
Are you ready to save some time, feed your family healthier meals and
save some money along the way? These are just some of the benefits of
family meal planning. Let’s look at all of them in a little more
detail..
Family Meal
Planning Planning your family’s meals in advance will help you save time and
money, as well as making it easier to ensure your family eats healthy
and balanced meals. And the more you do it, the easier it gets!
Lunch Box
Ideas for Kids
We all know how difficult it can be to come up with
different, healthy and fun lunch box ideas - and that's why we end up
packing up the same lunches over and over again! To help you (and your
kids!) avoid packed lunch boredom, we have collected some simple ideas
to spice up your child's lunch box.
Teaching Kids To Deal With Pain An in depth article on what pain is, what reactions pain causes in
children and how to teach children to cope with pain from injury or
illness.
Kids and Vegetables Some Ways To
Encourage Your Kids To Eat Them! One common struggle that most moms will face at some time or other
is getting their kids to eat their veggies. Most kids will turn up their
nose at the site of anything green. So how do you get around the veggie
issue? Here are some fun and easy ways to get your kids to eat their
veggies.
What to do if Your Child is Experiencing
Bedwetting Most children who experience bedwetting have at least one parent or
first degree relative who also had a problem with bedwetting. Knowing
this often helps the child feel less stressed about the situation.
How to Help Your Picky Eater
One of the most common questions I am asked is how to
help a picky eater. If you’re worried that your child won’t get enough
nutrients from a limited selection of foods, the good news is...
Ideas For Sharing Stories
With Children
This two-part article discusses the ways in which stories and
storytelling play an important role in children's lives. Techniques are
offered for using stories to help develop children's verbal skills and
imaginations. This is part one.
Parenting Discipline - Teaching
Children Self Respect, Self Control and Empathy
For many parents, the words parenting discipline have very negative
connotations. There is the association with their own childhood and the
often unpleasant memories that thinking of discipline raises. Then there
is the association of the word discipline with ideas around corporal
punishment, with spanking, hitting and hurting children.
Who Owns The Problem; Parent or Child?
It is tempting for parents to assume ownership and responsibility for everything that goes on in the life of their child. However, when the parent jumps in too soon to solve the problem or give the answer, the child never learns to trust his own judgment and become a critical thinker.
Parenting - Making A Schedule This article on the benefits of scheduling your day as a parent
really struck home with me. It took me a while to work this out for
myself when I had young children at home, and I wish I had done so - and
benefited from the much calmer household that was the result - sooner!
Being Left Is The Definition Of A Mother
To be a successful mother you must be left. Not left handed, nor to the
left politically, but just left. This necessary abandonment comes in
gradual stages and the steps toward this goal are painful to be sure.
The Uneducated Palate
When did you learn to really enjoy food? How about experiencing taste
and textures? I think children develop a taste for food a lot sooner
than we think.
Ways of Dealing With
Separation Anxiety
All parents will remember how difficult it was to leave their children
when they were young, and some of us had to deal with unhappy children
suffering from separation anxiety, again and again and again! Veronica
shares some tips on how to make the partings easier.
Math Games
for the Active Child
To put it in a nice way, my son is rather squirmy. He doesn't like to
sit still for very long unless he's playing a video game, then it's just
amazing. So instead of constantly telling him to sit down and do his
math, we take it outside or up the stairs, literally...
