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Skin Repair In Your Kitchen

Winter is a rough time for your skin. You need to have the heat on, but that can suck moisture out of the air and out of your skin. Here are some quick and easy ways to fix your skin in the kitchen. Feeling dried out? If you need to boost hydration, start with good old H-2-O. Drink six to eight glasses of water every day to moisturize from within. Then make sure your diet includes enough essential fatty acids, like omega-3 and omega-6. These fatty acids help make up the membrane that protects each and every cell in your … Continue reading →

Using Play to Get Your Own Way

As some of you who’ve read my other blogs know by now, I tend to let my sense of humor guide me in my parenting. Humor and silliness have been a gift, as far as I’m concerned, and while I certainly get down, frustrated, aggravated and generally annoyed, most of the time I can unearth some humor in even the most scary, challenging parenting adventures. I know, you must be thinking that I have super easy kids for whom a humorous joke or gentle tease are all that’s needed to keep everything humming along with ease and good behavior. In … Continue reading →

Kids & Strength Training

This is more of an ethical question for you than a fitness related one. In general, exercise is good for kids and adults alike. But weight training in young children demands more than a few questions other than what weights to start with. For example, if you are wondering whether your child would benefit from weight training or not, then here is some information that may help you. In general, children can start this at any age. From the moment they are first learning to hoist their toys, they are weight lifting. But if they are weight training with hand … Continue reading →

Super Fitness Options for Your Kids

I like a good card game. I really like a good fitness option. So it’s great when you can take a good card game and a good set of fitness options and bundle them all together. The FitDeck Jr. Superman Edition is a new exercise card game designed for your kids. Targeting kids between the ages of 4 and 16, the fitness card deck includes cards like the Lois Lane Lucky Card, the Lex Luthor Drop Card and the Faster than a Speeding Bullet Card. FitDeck Jr Superman Edition The FitDeck flash cards were originally offered and designed by a … Continue reading →

You Can’t Do That on Television – Nickelodeon is…

With so many networks available for kids to watch these days, Nickelodeon is making good on a very old promise from their own infancy. A show used to air on their network called: You Can’t Do That on Television and today, they continue with that theory by telling kids to turn off the television and go outside to play. In recent memory, the Nickelodeon channel has hosted four on air challenges and according to news reports, they’ve helped some kids to lose up to 30 pounds as they inspire children and their families to eat healthier and exercise more. The … Continue reading →

Your Kids & Exercise

As I was telling you earlier, today is the first day of school in my area and it seemed like a great time to revisit the fact that kid’s need exercise. It’s important to remember that while we think of exercise as walking on the treadmill or lifting weights, exercise for our kids happens during soccer practice, gym class, playing at recess and riding their bikes around the park. The Benefits of Exercise: Kids who are active (exercise): Have stronger muscles have strong bones have leaner bodies is far less likely to be overweight will sleep better will cope better … Continue reading →

Summer Fun – Say Yes to a Trampoline

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A funny thing happened to me today, I went to a website that featured an elephant on a trampoline. After I got done snorting my coffee up my nose and recovering from the following choke and laugh – that guffaw aside – I was doing research on trampolines. You remember the trampoline, right? The big round thing that you can bounce on like mad and your kids get a big giggle out of and you get even more in the way of laughter when their hair stands straight up from the generated static electricity? I thought you might. A trampoline … Continue reading →