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My lungs screamed and my legs burned. Yet, I had the biggest smile on my face. I just completed my first triathlon — a 0.5-mile swim, 11-mile bike and 3-mile run amid the rolling hills of Napa County, Calif. My husband and daughter greeted me at the finish line with a big embrace. Once the hug fest was over, my daughter Bella looked at me with her big brown eyes…
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Back to School feels a lot like January – a fresh start, a chance to rethink your ways, the motivation to improve. Total tabula rasa. Neither you nor your kids have goofed anything up yet…. ahh, doesn’t it feel good? Use this renewed positive spirit to form new healthy habits for the school year that lies ahead, still untainted; or to reinstate some bygone good habits you had neglected towards…
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Who doesn’t remember the first day of school; the blend of anticipation and anxiety? For children with older siblings, that first day can be an important and long-anticipated culmination of joining the ranks of the big kids. For those returning, going back to school holds all of the past successes and failures along with uncertainty regarding the year to come. Will my teacher like me? Will there be classmates I…
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We are gladly sharing this guest post with you today, written by Emily Patterson on behalf of Primrose Schools. Enjoy!
As a parent, we often find ourselves spending a lot of time in the kitchen. Although we might not realize it, our children might find this a desirable place to be as well. The delicious smells, loud noises and commotion coming from your kitchen make it a fascinating – yet dangerous…
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Family dynamics have a huge impact on a child’s weight. Things like whether you are having family meals together, whether you make physical activity a family priority and where you choose to eat out together very much play a role in shaping your child’s health and forming habits for life.
More often than not, it’s obese parents who
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“There is something about a shared meal — not some holiday blowout, not once in a while but regularly, reliably – that anchors a family even on nights when the food is fast and the talk cheap and everyone has someplace else they’d rather be. And on those evenings when the mood is right and the family lingers, caught up in an idea or an argument explored in a shared safe place
- Don’t feed your kids breakfast. It’s hard enough to get them out the door in the morning anyway. Geez, moms need a break too. Just make sure you put a candy bar in their pocket, in case their blood sugar drops a little later on.
- Pay no attention to portion sizes. In fact, adult portions are completely appropriate. Don’t worry about a child’s stomach only being the size
One of our team members here at ZisBoomBah recently shared her concern about a friend’s kid who is overweight. She was wondering how to approach the mother – out of compassion and love for the family – without hurting her feelings. We knew this was a question many of our readers might have on their mind too, considering that one third of all children in the US are overweight or…
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“Healthy lifestyle” is such a buzzword these days. It’s everywhere! So we stopped to ask, what does it actually mean? Is there a universal definition, a common understanding, of what’s considered a healthy lifestyle? Or does each family life a different healthy lifestyle?
We asked our house nutritionist, Lisa Lanzano, MS, RD, to tell us exactly what a healthy lifestyle is…
Big surprise! Lisa didn’t specifically talk about food at…
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…or how NOT to create a monster.
At a friend’s house the other day, my 5 year old pointed over to the family’s breakfast table, her eyebrows raised high up into her forehead. “Mama, look!” she gasped, pointing at a half-eaten bowl of kids’ cereals. It was the kind Michael Pollan ruled against. You know, the cereal that changes the color of the milk. Hoping no one had heard…
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