How To Evaluate Your Teen’s Sleep Schedule Teens require anywhere between 8 to 10 hours of sleep each night. This is the ideal length of sleep to ensure that teens are well rested for school, sports, and work. Parents should get in the habit of monitoring their teen’s sleep schedule for irregularities and inconsistencies that […]
Making Family Fitness Fun
Make Physical Activity A Priority For Your Family As a parent, one of the best things you can do right now is encourage healthy habits for your children. Staying active and eating right can help kids and adults achieve healthier weights, stronger muscles and bones. Here are some other ways to make physical activity a […]
Top 10 Benefits of Water
We all know about the benefits of water: Regular bowel movements – helps with digestion and keeps our bowels moving Healthy skin – moisturizes skin from within, decreases wrinkles Flushes out toxins – urination and sweating after drinking water rids our body of waste preventing kidney stones and UTI’s Immune system booster – keeps our […]
Roasted Brussels Sprouts – Picky Eaters Beware
Let’s be honest, we all had our picky food moments. I did grow up loving broccoli and spinach and many foods that kids would turn up their noses. On the other hand, I would not eat brussels sprouts or tuna noodle casserole. Now that I’m an adult, I am proud to say I will still […]
Arctic Sensory Bin, Two Ways!
We have been experiencing a major heatwave here in Germany these past few weeks. With no air conditioning in our home (or anywhere else in the country) we’ve been a little obsessed with keeping cool, so we figured what better theme for our sensory bin than the arctic! We played with this bin for several […]
Greek Yogurt Popsicles
April showers bring May flowers. What do May flowers bring? Pilgrims! I can already hear my kiddos groaning at that cheesy joke. As a mom, it is my job to dole out the cheesy jokes though. The days are getting longer (yay!), the sun is getting warmer (yay!), and with May in full force, it […]