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…
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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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Real Food Family Tries Soda Pop | Kids Never Had Soda!
When you’re a real food family, it becomes clear that other households’ pantries, fridges, and freezers look very different from what your kids are used to. All sorts of processed foods exist out there that I simply never buy. Don’t get me wrong – we eat potato chips and looooove ice cream for dessert, so
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Homemade Elderberry Gummies Recipe | Kid-Friendly Immune Booster
Does anyone else hate the phrase “flu season”? It’s really misleading. God created four beautiful seasons, none of which has an attribute of illness. I tried to figure out who coined the term but came up short. My first guess would be the CDC. Or a drug company. While there isn’t actually a season of
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Living Dangerously… with Caution (We Bike Our Child to School Without Apology)
Last week, I posted a personal story on my public Facebook page.This page has nearly 100,000 followers, but generally gets somewhere between one and eight “likes” on any given…
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Positive Parenting Solutions Review | Skill Building for Parents
I first heard about Positive Parenting Solutions in an email PS from Katie. So I watched the webinar and was hooked. We all want to…
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Simple Strategies to Cope with Anxiety for Kids
It’s Monday morning. We have to be out the door by 8:00am. It’s the usual frenzy of packing up lunches, helping the preschooler get dressed
How Do I Decide What Reusable Bag to Buy?
It’s finally happened! In the decade plus since I’ve been raising children with a green and crunchy mindset, thinking almost as much about the environment
How to Eat to Reduce Anxiety in Kids
I have struggled with anxiety pretty much my entire life. From the time I was very little I worried about things most people never even think about. It gradually increased over the years, coming to a head in my 20’s with full-blown panic attacks. My poor husband got a crash course in mental health issues
Instant Pot Honey-Mustard Salmon with Potatoes Recipe
Let’s talk about how hard it is to make dinner every night. We are the kind of family that rarely eats out, so we eat most of our meals at home. While that sounds like I must make a nice dinner every night, it is simply not true. Instead, I make simple, flavorful meals with
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Why Kids Have Anxiety | Root Causes of Anxiety in Kids
When I was little, riding in the car meant one thing to me – no bathroom for a long stretch with an overactive bladder. My dad hated stopping. I actually didn’t even know that you could stop anywhere besides a rest area until I was much older. Most long car rides were spent staring out
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Seasonal Orange Creamsicle Smoothie Recipe
It’s not often that I am able to go on a one-on-one date with any of my kids. Life is just so busy! So when my youngest daughter and I had the opportunity to go see my oldest daughter’s theatre performance, we made the most of it by going out for dinner before the show.
Easy Health Benefits from Herbs | Herbal Infusions for Kids
I don’t like coffee. I think I just heard some gasps. It’s true. I just don’t like coffee (though some days I wish I did!). My parents weren’t coffee drinkers. And we didn’t have the Starbucks craze of today. So it just wasn’t something I was exposed to. But I have always loved tea. Growing
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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…
Healthy Gluten-Free Cupcakes with a Protein Boost for Breakfast!
“I don’t like muffins!” That is a common phrase heard coming from my youngest daughter (almost eight). Of all my kids she is the only one that I would have ever labeled “picky.” I prefer the term “selective.” To be fair, she does have good reason. She had a lot of feeding challenges and trauma
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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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Fighting Impetigo Naturally | Home Remedies for Impetigo
Wrestling turned out to be the gift that kept on giving. My son was only a wrestler for two seasons. But he got everything wrestling…
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Gabb vs. Troomi and Beyond: What’s the Best Phone for Kids and Teens?
Looking for a safer smartphone for your teen or tween? They can have a great camera, limited (but functional) features, and still have help from…
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Plant-Based School Lunch Ideas Kids Can Make
Okay, it’s that time, parents. School lunches. Love ‘em, hate ‘em, make what you want of them, but they are here, and we need a plan. If you’re like me, one of your big goals for your kids is that they eat plenty of plants. While our family still eats meat for other meals (we
What to Do with Stomachaches in Kids: Remedies for Vomiting
Years ago, we had about three months of sickness after sickness. My then 2-year-old daughter Leah had a week of throwing up – an entire week! When big brother Paul came down with something two weeks later and threw up, she watched it happen, and with utter glee (I kid you not) on her face,
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