Perfect and Good: Promoting a Healthy Teen Body Image
Recognizing my own negative body image issues and instilling a healthy self-image in my 13-year-old daughter.
Recognizing my own negative body image issues and instilling a healthy self-image in my 13-year-old daughter.
Why it’s important to educate and empower your children and talk to them about “enthusiastic consent.”
I know that many kids these days struggle from the alphabet soup of disorders. Why aren’t we talking about it more openly?
There are many guides to eating healthfully out there, but here are five easy-to-remember tips as you make your way down the supermarket aisle.
Our heroes at MomsRising.org are galvanizing support to ask Kraft to remove certain artificial ingredients from their foods, much like they did in other countries. Don’t our kids deserve better? Learn how to easily lend your support.
Sunscreen. The simple thing we use to protect our kids and ourselves from sun damage has suddenly become very complicated.
So you have a daughter competing in the Olympics tonight, like Jody Flatt does, what do you do to help her from cracking under the pressure of tens of millions of eyeballs watching her every lutz jump?
Many children can and often do sleep right through the piercing sound of a smoke alarm. So what should parents do?
In between competitions I’ve been able to spend time with Olympic moms as they’ve dined or just hung out watching Team USA compete. They have some great advice to share with the parents of aspiring Olympic athletes and just any competitive sports kids.
By now you have heard about the FDA panel’s review of cold medication for children. Probably, right unless you’ve been under a rock. But I don’t want to rule that out a possibility. If not, here’s the PSA. At the end of last week, an…
Basic and invaluable advice for parents on kids’ personal safety.
I interviewed Salma Hayek. Pinch me.
That’s right! A poll shows that the vast majority of women would nurse another woman’s child who was in need.
Sometimes you need to be your child’s advocate when you’re dealing with a doctor or dentist that is not giving them the respect and kindness children deserve when receiving medical care.
One of your New Year’s resolutions is to be a better citizen, right? Well, it takes only 30 seconds to show support for the BPA-Free Kids Act to our families from this harmful chemical. Then you can feel accomplished for the day.
Meditation might just be the key to help some kids settle down and even get to sleep more quickly. Some schools are also seeing the benefits of meditation.
I’m loving the summer so far with the endless playing outdoors. After hours at the playground my son’s body is so dirty that I need to scrub his toes several times over with a nail brush. I love the unscheduled abandon of summer and the…
Ahh, the problem of the picky eater. An all too common issue.
I was very excited to speak to Tanith as she’s been very vocal about her weight and body image issues. I asked Tanith what advice would she share with moms of children athletes who might be concerned about their child’s current or future focus on body image. We can all learn from Tanith.
Sunday morning many were confused with the new date for ending Daylight Savings (“Fall Back”) being moved to the first Sunday in November. Yes! Halloween Trick-or-Treating was much improved with this extra hour of sunlight. This morning I received a very timely and helpful post…