Help Your Children Live Their Best Lives
It’s tough to cut back on your child’s sugary staples, often harder than it is to cut back on your own. Kids have a high tendency to choose taste over nutrition and a great propensity for whining. Walking through a grocery store with a child can seem like a broken record of “Can I have [Read More...]
Need to get the kids out of the house and bored of the same old activities? Here is a collection of easy and cheap DIY outdoor activities that can be used over and over again, whether it’s a humid 85 degrees or an “I’m freezing my $J%* off” 35er. Tree Swing Well, tie up my [Read More...]
On occasion I find myself at a Dunkin Doughnuts drive-thru for coffee. I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that my kids recognize the sign and associate it with “treats” (aka munchkins.) About half of the time, I give in to the pleading. I buy five munchkins, give them two each, and save one for myself. It is so [Read More...]
Did you know that a serving of dark chocolate has less sugar than a 4 oz. organic baby yogurt? Yes, you heard me right. I’m not saying you shouldn’t give your kids yogurt because of the sugar content. But it sure puts chocolate in perspective, doesn’t it. When we eliminate a food, the message we [Read More...]
Gentle Weight Loss is a healthy way for children who are obese to lose weight. Gentle Weight Loss focuses on: Very slow weight loss with long term maintenance Savoring food rather than fearing it Eating food only when you are hungry and only until you are satiated Self respect rather than self abuse Understanding the [Read More...]
Lately my 2 1/2 year old daughter has been saying she’s hungry. A LOT. It’s difficult to know when she is truly hungry and when she is just wanting to eat. Boredom seems to be the going trigger these days. It’s made me think about how to explain what it means to be hungry and [Read More...]
I just did something I have wanted to do for a while. I threw away my scale. Why? Because it has never done me any favors. And because I don’t want my 2 1/2 year old daughter to base even a single day’s worth of happiness on what that piece of digital technology says. [Read More...]
We have forgotten all about hunger. We don’t even know what it means. And if we, as parents, don’t have a sense of hunger, our kids certainly don’t, either. Hunger is a sensation. A way for our brain to tell our bodies that we need energy. Yet we’ve fallen so far off the mark with [Read More...]
Before we had kids, my husband and I were so so naive when it comes to feeding children. Being foodies, we assumed that our children would naturally follow our lead. (Cue the experienced parent chuckle track here). We were So. Dead. Wrong. I found myself in a corner when it came to food choices. And [Read More...]
There are some popular cookbooks out there featuring recipes that sneak vegetables in to “kid foods.” I’m not down with that. And here’s why: 1. Pureeing and freezing an assortment of vegetables, fruits, and meats is time consuming. 2. These books are very “recipe” oriented, meaning lots of ingredients, multiple steps, and buying [Read More...]
