Best Starter Phones for Kids and Tweens: A Parent’s Guide to Safe First Phones
Do you know about the option of
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Little Foodies (Kids and Babies)
Natural pregnancy notes, tips for raising babies naturally, how to teach kids to cook and eat a wide variety, and how to integrate real food at school – KS has you covered!
The Internet Gone Mad: How a Few Experts Cited Something Wrong and Now Everyone Thinks Harvard Wants Kids to Do Chores
You’ve probably seen the meme. It goes something like this: “Harvard found that the biggest predictor of success in life is doing chores as a…
The “Unteachable” Life Skills Our Kids Need Most (and How We Can Help)
As a parent, I’m often asked: “How do you teach life skills like cooking, cleaning, or budgeting?” I love answering that question (because that’s literally…
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Teaching Life Skills: The Best Hack I’ve Used (and What Other Smart Parents Swear By)
When I think about teaching life skills to my kids, I always come back to one core truth: it’s not just about checking a skill…
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How to Plan Food for a (Really) Large Group: Taco Bar Prep for Graduation Party, Wedding, Shower, Etc.
I love a challenge, and although you wouldn’t know it if you visited my house, I can organize an event like nobody’s business (just not the piles of paper that infiltrate my kitchen). What is the best food to serve for a party…with a few hundred people…on a budget? Who needs to pay a caterer
Welcome Back to School: Sustainability, Lunch Ideas, and More!
Head Back to School Sustainably in 2024 It’s the time of year when school supplies seem to have taken over my house and I’m scouring…
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Top 10 Life Skills to Teach Your Kids Before They Turn 18
When I was a kid, I never once said, “I want to be a digital entrepreneur when I grow up.” I never had “be a…
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High School Graduation Party Planning Ideas
When I started planning the graduation party for my oldest, my college roommate came to mind. When she graduated high school, she lived in a…
Understanding the Baby Blues After Birth
This post was written by JayDee Vykoukal from Mom Blog Life. Becoming a parent is an exciting and joyous experience, but it also comes with challenges. One common challenge that many new parents face is experiencing feelings of sadness and mood changes after their baby is born. With such a huge life change, who wouldn’t
Easy and Healthy Snack Ideas for Athletes
I’m so committed to healthy snacks for kids, including after team sports, that I simply can’t just go with the flow and buy single-serve processed foods for the team. Every time it’s our turn to bring the after-game snack, I give my kids choices for healthy after-game snack ideas. Last baseball season, my 8-year-old, Gabe,
Healthy Snack Swaps for Kids’ Sports
It seems inevitable that if your kids are in sports, they’re going to be served snacks by other kids’ parents. It also feels inevitable that the majority will be unhealthy snacks. It’s something that drives me crazy, and I know I’m not alone–because, as I’ve mentioned before, every time I bring this up on social
Kids’ Sports Snacks Are Out of Control
Even though I write and teach about food, I don’t always post a lot of beautiful food photography on social media. However, it turns out that if I post simple photos like this or this: I get insane conversations on Instagram and Facebook. Those are just a few of our collected sports snacks that we
Simple Tips to Keep Your Kids Healthy This Year
One of the biggest misconceptions in the health and wellness world is that in order to improve your health and the health of your kids, the first step is a drastic diet change or adding in numerous supplements. In reality, that is a recipe for overwhelm and setbacks. This is especially true when it comes
The Best Cooking Gifts For Kids
While we all love when our kids are given clutter-free, experience gifts, sometimes it is nice to have some type of tangible kids cooking gift…
The Cookbook for Kids Written by Kids: Chef Junior
The children set out to make coffee pancakes, which would have been a noble pursuit since the majority of the 12 adults in the household did not hide their passion for coffee. Had they chosen to use leftover liquid coffee in place of some of the water or milk in a pancake recipe, the experiment
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How to Teach Kids about Nutrition without Causing an Eating Disorder
I once heard a picky eating specialist say you shouldn’t teach kids about “healthy food” because it will cause disordered eating. An interesting statement that…
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How to Add Healthy Fat to School Lunches
Fat. What a controversial subject! If you were a child of the eighties like me, you were told from a young age that fat is…
How to Prevent Picky Eating with Babies and Toddlers
When my husband and I started talking about having kids and parenting philosophies, I was eager to discuss how to prevent picky eating. Since I was a teenager, I had struggled with multiple chronic illnesses but found that a majority of my symptoms were relieved through diet and lifestyle modifications. I knew that eating well
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5 Surprising Ways for a High-Schooler to Cut Weight for Wrestling (That No One Is Using)
Apparently, we grow our kids short and slim, so when my very skinny freshman son decided to join the high-school wrestling team, he was quite…
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The Secret to Having a Healthy Halloween
We’re about a week out, and people are getting ready for Halloween. Costumes. Trick-or-Treat ideas. And of course…the food. What To Do About All That Halloween Candy Must Halloween be an all-out sugar fest for our kids? We have Halloween candy around until the summer parade candy takes over. But I still dread the onslaught of