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Next time you are shopping for food with your kids, bring a large piece of paper and have them sketch out a route through your favorite supermarket that will help you steer you clear of the bad stuff. They can mark forbidden aisles and come up with rules you have to follow…
Some ideas to get you started:
- Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the
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When it’s pasta night at your house, you probably have a pretty good idea how much to cook. You know quite well your 11-year old son will chow down a mound of spaghetti the size of his head while your little girl barely eats three spoons full. But would you know how your kids’ portions translate into standard serving sizes recommended by the USDA for children?
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Think you don’t have the time, money or energy to load one more thing onto your plate? Think again. Get your kids involved and accomplish the one little thing together this week that will make a big difference:
This week, let’s focus on hydration to keep the family healthy. Make sure everyone in the family drinks plenty of water. Does your child come home from school pooped and crabby? Sometimes…
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Did you read our “Couch Potato” article? We had talked about studies showing that too much of any kind of sedentary activity can shorten your kid’s life – may this be watching TV or doting dolls. Now, we wouldn’t be ZisBoomBah if we’d leave you hanging without a real solution, would we? We called to the rescue no other than The New York Times best-selling…
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