Email Etiquette

Using email etiquette increases your chances of your correspondence being opened and read. A lot of people don’t bother to read an email before they send it out, as proven from the many spelling and grammar mistakes contained in so many emails. Instill some email etiquette and protocol, then read through your email through the [...]

Busy Moms Guide to Eating for Energy

Does being on the constant go have you making choices that are less than ideal when it comes to food? Do you find yourself in the nearest drive thru line ordering burgers and fries, even though you know that it isn’t healthy? Do you hit the snack machine in the lunch room between office meetings, [...]

Where Did You Come From?

Have you ever wanted to ask your spouse this? Are there things that he or she does that baffle you? Sometimes it’s just little things, like this:
I grew up saying that we needed to get something out of the freezer so it could “unthaw”. We always said that in my family. [...]

Eating In The Know

Everyday we are surrounded by assaults from media messages that lead to confusion when it comes to choosing foods that are healthy for ourselves and for our family. Everywhere we look the media and agribusiness are pulling on our strings. From highway billboards, to product packages, misleading and often flat out false health claims are [...]

Should You Be Running Your Kid’s Life?

Well that’s a silly question! Of course you should. But there’s more than one way to do that, and those ways have very different results. Jim Fay, co-founder of Parenting with Love and Logic, describes three types of parents: “drill sergeants, helicopters, and consultants.”
Some parents run their kids’ lives by being a [...]

The Five Love Languages of Children

If you are like me, your children are the light of your life.  Because we love our kids so much, we assume they know it!  but it is entirely possible that the way you communicate your love to your children is not the way that makes them FEEL loved.  Their emotional tank may be running [...]