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8 Playground Games That Can Benefit Your Health
Why is it that when we grow up, exercise all of a sudden becomes a workout? Kids can run around all day --- and they'd never call it work! As adults, we need to think outside the box when it comes to...
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Don’t Blow a Knee: Prevent ACL Injuries With These Tips
As kids gear up for fall sports, parents want to know how to keep them safe. One common injury among athletes these days? The injured ACL. The ACL is one of the main ligaments in the knee, and there...
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Bring Attention to Allergies With These Allergy Tattoos and Bracelets!
I've been super fortunate that my kids seem to have inherited my stomach of steel and freedom from food allergies and sensitivities. But some aren't so lucky, and food allergies are more than just...
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A Nut-Free Snack From a Nutty Squirrel
Like I said earlier this week, I've been lucky that my kids don't have any allergies so far. But that doesn't mean that everyone is so fortunate. So I decided to take one for the team and test out...
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A Better Lunchbox Drink: Silk Singles
The following is a post sponsored by Silk. For our sponsored post policy, click here. We're just a few weeks into the school year, and if you and your kiddos are already suffering from healthy...
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Flu Season Isn’t Going to Get Us This Time
This year had a pretty hellacious start. Remember how my family and I were sick NONSTOP, for months at a time? Well, this flu season is going to be different. I'll be doing everything in my power to...
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Birds and the Bees: 6 Tips for Talking to Kids About Sex
I'm years away from having a teen, but talking to kids about sex kind of creeps up on you. I mean, I was about 5 or 6 when I asked where babies came from, and my mom, as she always did, answered...
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5 Ways to Get Your Kids Excited About Their Healthy Lunch Box
School is back in session for most of the country, which means that the packing of school lunch boxes is well under way. But it can be tough to make sure you're packing healthy stuff that your picky...
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3 Tips to Get the Kids on the Move
It's hard to believe that in some parts of the country kids have already been in school for almost a month. Because here on the East Coast, kids just started this week! My daughter starts preschool...
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5 Tips for a Healthier Halloween
A healthier Halloween, you say? Bear with me because I'm not totally crazy. Halloween comes around once a year. So in my opinion, it's totally fine to let your little monsters run door-to-door and...
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Beyond the PB&J: Bento Box Lunch Ideas and Tips
Sometimes I find myself banging my head against the wall trying to come up with lunch ideas for the kids. So when Sarah Platanitis, food writer and blogger over at Sarah in the Kitchen sent these...
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Hot Topic: How Do We Encourage Kids to Move?
Anyone who has kids knows that they are pretty much born to move. From the moment they can hold up their heads on their own, they're on a mission to roll, crawl, toddle, walk and climb their way to...
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This Adorable Bento Box Makes Packing a Healthy Lunch a Cinch
Bored of your same-old packed lunch out of your same-old lunch box you've had for years (that endured a soup spill that never really came clean)? If you're looking to revamp your lunch box for the New...
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There Is No Such Thing as a Kid-Sized Meal
Everyone knows portion sizes are out of control. You can jumbo-size soft drinks. Super-size fries. And everyone who's ever been out to a chain sit-down restaurant knows that the portions should be...
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No Need to Blush: This Site Lets Teens Connect to Life Coaches Online
Remember those dramatic teen years? When no one could possibly understand the angst you were going through, when parents weren't getting "it" or when other adults weren't there to turn to and you...
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13 Ways to Make Homework Less Stressful
My daughter is 3 years old and is in two full days of preschool. Wednesday is the first day she attends each week, and it’s also Sharing Day. That means every Tuesday night, I’m scrambling to put...
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9 Ways to Make Allergy Season Less Miserable
I haven’t noticed my allergies much this spring. They’re hiding behind two of the worst colds I’ve ever had. Both of the colds had the rest of my family sniffling for a day or two, but they knocked me...
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Funny Reactions to the ‘You’re Getting a Sibling!’ Announcement
Both of my kiddos have been too young to get much of a reaction from any pregnancy announcement we’ve made. My daughter was only 12 months when I got pregnant with No. 2, and both kids pretty much...
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Dealing with Death: 7 Tips for Coping with Kids and Grief
I’m in all-new parenting territory right now, and it’s not fun territory to be in. Our sweet pug, Marti, died in early July from a short-but-swift illness. I’ve discussed her countless times here...
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6 Winter Activities for Young Kids
Winter is the worst, amiright? I’ve always been more of a warm-weather kind of gal. The only time I like the cold is when I’m on the mountains skiing — which is to say, rarely. I’d rather be sweating...
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