Personal Finance and Lifestyle Guide
Being a reader has many advantages for our children. When your child loves to read, they will typically do better academically than children who do not. Reading also is an alternative entertainment than watching television or surfing the net for hours on end. Being a reader opens a whole new world up to your child […] More
Relationships are very important to women and dates such as our anniversary and birthday are days we expect our husbands to be extra special to us. Therefore, if a husband forgets, it can feel extremely hurtful to his wife. Here are some things you can do if it happens to you. Give him a chance to […] More
Chances are, if you have children then you have dealt with feelings of failure as a parent. Most of us aren’t parents for long until we feel like we have done something incorrectly. We may have feelings of failure as a parent over anything from feeling we didn’t catch our child’s health problem early enough […] More
Unexpected visitors always seem to choose the worst times to come, don’t they? You get that phone call that a visitor is on their way then look around and realize that your house is a disaster. What should you quickly clean before your unexpected visitors make their arrival? Here is a quick guide to get […] More
Most of us find ourselves with a friend who loves to gossip from time to time in our lives. It may be someone we really love that has this one bad trait or just a casual friend they run into from time to time. Either way, a friend that loves to gossip can pose problems. […] More
Winter weight gain can creep up on us during the fall and winter months. A combination of all of the tempting foods of the holidays and the comfort foods that we all love so much make this an easy accomplishment. However, it is not something that any of us want to happen, so what can […] More
Getting Braces Treatment as an adult is something that many people decide to do and it is a good decision. A lot of times they may have even been through braces with their own children and after watching the process, decide to do it for themselves. They may have just got to a place where […] More
Braces is not a term that makes parents or their kids happy. While parents are thinking about all of the dollar signs they are going to have come up with, kids are thinking how they are going to survive the next two years wearing braces. They worry about this for several different reasons. Kids worry […] More
Are your teens getting enough sleep? Chances are, they are not. Most of us don’t even realize how much sleep that our teens need. Teens need an average of about 9 hours of sleep a night, according to The National Sleep Foundation. Some teenagers can get by on 8 hours but the majority really need […] More
An internet curfew will not make you a popular parent but chances are it is needed as much at your house as it was at mine if you are a parent of teenagers. Most teenagers live on the internet. Phones don’t ring with friends calling to chat. Instead, they ping with texts constantly at all […] More
It can be frustrating to be married to a man who isn’t the greatest gift giver. You know you are going to get things that don’t work for you or you won’t enjoy. You feel obligated to act as if you like the gift when in reality, nothing could be further from the truth. What […] More
Good sportsmanship is not a skill that our children are born with. It is something we have to teach them through modeling good sportsmanship ourselves and having some open, honest discussions with them. What are the best ways to pass this skill on to your children? Modeling good sportsmanship yourself is step one. You cannot […] More