By Cheryl Tallman
www.FreshBaby.com
Encouraging healthy eating is about balance – even when it comes to taste. Here are a few tips that can help you expand or improve the balance in your child’s taste buds.
Experiment with Tastes: Allow your child to experience and identify the four unique tastes that make up flavor [...]
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Encouraging Your Children to Appreciate Their Taste Buds
5 Steps to a Calm Evening
By Erin Kurt, B.Ed,
www.erinparenting.com
Whether you work outside the house or stay at home full-time, the toughest part of the day is the same: those frantic early evening hours when there are mouths to feed, homework to do, and cranky kids to handle. The trick is to streamline your to-do’s so you can feel calmer and [...]
Best Breakfasts for Kids
Healthy Children for Life – Breakfast: Setting Your Child Up for Success
By Linda Miner RNC, CHN, CMTA
www.MyHealthyBalance.com
Imagine building a house without a foundation. It may stay standing for awhile, but eventually it will start to shift and crack and eventually collapse. Starting the day with a healthy breakfast should be considered as important to your [...]
Sibling Rivalry Help
Solving Sibling Strife
By Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE
Some parents “let kids work it out” by doing nothing, but if the children use insults, humiliation, or physically duke it out, then it will only make matters worse!
Some parents will dive into the action and solve problems for their children. While this may bring peace and order [...]
Online Ancestry Search: Where to Start
Finding Information on Your Family Ancestors Online
There’s only so much you can do to find information about your ancestors from using old family records, newspapers, and such. Sometimes you have to search elsewhere, particularly if you’ve run into a road block. Finding information on your family ancestors online is one way to get past those [...]
Get Back to Family Dinner
Engage with your kids each night with help from Dr. Lynne Kenney. Includes creative “theme ideas” for every day of the week.
Get Back to Family Dinner
By Dr. Lynne Kenney
www.lynnekenney.com
Families today are busy. With after school sports and other activities driving our lives, a sit down dinner often falls off the “to-do list.” But a [...]
Valentine Party! 11 Games Kids Love
If you are planning a Valentine’s Day party for children, games are essential. Here are some ideas appropriate for various age groups.
Valentines Day Party Games For Elementary Kids
“Throwing the Smile” Game
Sit everyone in a circle and have one person smile wildly at the rest of the group. Everyone else must sit as stone-faced as possible. [...]
The Best Insurance for Raising Safe and Happy Kids
The Best Insurance for Raising Safe and Happy Kids
By Paula Statman, M.S.S.W.
Love is more than a wonderful gift to give your children; it’s also good insurance. Showing your love tells them they are worthy of love and respect and shapes their expectations of how others treat them.
A child who feels loved is less likely to [...]
Teaching Empathy to Children
By Annye Rothenberg, Ph.D.
www.PerfectingParentingPress.com
Many parents are noticing that their children don’t seem very empathetic. Parents and teachers are concerned that too many children don’t a ppear to notice others’ feelings or care if others are upset.
Empathy is the cornerstone for meaningful, close, and satisfying connections between people – both children and adults. We want [...]
Christmas Party Games for the Whole Family
Here are fun Christmas party game ideas for the entire family.
1. Christmas Word Search. Find holiday word search puzzles on the Internet or in bookstores. Make enough copies for all. Using a timer, give everyone three minutes to find as many words from the list as they can.
2. Holiday Win, Lose or Draw. Remember the [...]
