A Savvy Guide to Happy, Healthy Eating for Families

April 27, 2009

Eating well is a joy. In truth, eating good food is a joy. Eating with your family is a joy. Eating well is a lifelong joy. So, where's the joy at your family's dinner table? Woefully missing, all too often. A parent serves up a meal with sides of guilt, hope, and regret. A child frowns at the offering before he even begins to inspect it. This

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Breakfast: The Most Important Meal of the Day

April 28, 2009

The idea of skipping breakfast doesn't come up in our house. Both of my children wake up hungry and eat before changing out of their pajamas.  While we've been known to indulge in Krispy Kreme every so often, on the whole I like to make sure that breakfast is healthy --  better: healthy and fast! Here are a few ideas for making sure you

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Five Ways to Pack Your Child's Lunch with Extra Love

April 29, 2009

Both my husband and I are graphic designers-turned web developers. Which means we love to draw, paints and do things artistically. Well, really I should say that my husband just LIVES artistically and he is the real inspiration for this post. Packing lunch for school, whether it is preschool or all day school can be tedious and cumbersome. But

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Feeding the Littlest Ones: Seven Breastfeeding Tips

May 05, 2009

T oday’s guest posters are parenting authors Suzanne Schlosberg and Sarah Bowen Shea who have recently written a book titled The Essential Breastfeeding Log . They would like to share with all of our new mothers seven helpful breastfeeding tips. As parents who each breastfed their own twins for at least 9 months, they certainly know what

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