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OMG, Is There Nothing Else to Report on But Pubic Hair Grooming Injuries!

Feb

2013

I just HAD to re-post this article that I saw on Health on Today, it’s certainly good for a chuckle. I just can’t imagine my kids shaving areas other than their faces and legs! Ow! Public hair grooming injuries on the rise, researchers find By JoNel Aleccia, Staff Writer, NBC News Whether it’s a DIY Brazilian wax or a botched attempt at “manscaping,” homegrown efforts to remove the hair down there are sending more people to emergency rooms, new research suggests. Pubic hair grooming injuries jumped five-fold between 2002 and 2010, according to a recent analysis of ER visits by ...

Time to Take it Off!

Jan

2013

Written by Alyssa Banko Published in SCV Health &Family Magazine January 2013 A publication of The Signal Time to Take it Off! By now we’ve all come up with our New Year’s resolutions and hopefully, just hopefully, we have started on the execution rather than just thinking about them. The one resolution that usually tops everyone’s list is weight loss – go figure. We all pigged out over the holidays eating ourselves into a food coma, not worrying about how much weight was being added to our figures. When that glittery ball dropped in Times Square to begin 2013, your resolution to lose ...

Mom, I Can Hear You!

Nov

2012

The video below is of an 8 month old baby boy being able to hear for the first time with his cochlear implants. The smile on his face when he hears his mothers voice is priceless! I just keep watching it over and over… MommyWarriors.com

Tired of the Same Old Holiday Family Photo?

Nov

2012

Written by Alyssa Banko Published in SCV Health &Family Magazine December 2012 A publication of The Signal One of the things that my family anticipates about the holidays is receiving the holiday cards. Sure, it’s a great way to be able to keep in touch with family and friends and see what everyone is up to but honestly, it’s all about the holiday photos for us. There are days when the entire family fights over who is going to get to the mailbox first and be the one to rip open the cards. As we huddle around the kitchen counter to look ...

Teaching Our Kids to be Someone Others are Thankful for

Nov

2012

As I prepare for Thanksgiving, I was planning on doing our usual tradition of going around the table and asking everyone to name someone or something for which they are thankful, until I read the article, “What’s Better than Gratitude,” at PsychologyToday.com. The article reports on two studies conducted at the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania where they took a group of people and randomly assigned them to list either things they were grateful for or things that they had done that others might be grateful for. In follow up behavior the latter group showed more signs ...

Calling All Inventive Moms!

Oct

2012

READY, SET, INVENT! GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AND EDISON NATION TEAM UP TO FIND THE NEXT GREAT CONSUMER PRODUCT Nationwide Search Kicks Off on EdisonNation.com/GoodHousekeeping Innovative Reader-Submitted Ideas to Be Selected for Development and Production NEW YORK (October 25, 2012) – Good Housekeeping has been a source of trusted advice, solutions and guidance for more than 125 years. From its V.I.P (Very Innovative Product) Awards, recognizing life-changing, time-saving inventions that solve everyday problems, to the top toys and the best anti-aging makeup, the magazine is always looking for breakthroughs, evaluating thousands of products each year in the Good Housekeeping Research Institute, its state-of-the-art testing ...

Getting Spooky With the Kids

Oct

2012

Written by Alyssa Banko Published in SCV Health & Family Magazine November 2012 A publication of The Signal I think Halloween is one of the top holidays in our house. Not only do my kids still enjoy the whole trick or treating thing with their friends but they love decorating the house (inside and out) and playing pranks on family members! I guess you can say we go all out on decorating. From a giant inflatable haunted house that trick or treaters walk through and a graveyard full of tombstones to a life sized pirate and strobe lights flashing in ...

What Your Kids Are Really Doing Online

Oct

2012

I wanted to share the article below because it is so true. My kids are on Youtube watching parodies that kids make, how to videos and learning how to beat those boardwalk games at Six Flags. Their goal is to make a video that gets millions of hits! By: Michael Levin, eight time best selling author The Internet affords children endless opportunities to get into serious trouble, downloading what they shouldn’t download, looking at what they shouldn’t be looking at, and getting ideas about what they shouldn’t be getting ideas about. But the good news is that if your kids ...

You Can Lead a Kid to Nutrition, But You Can’t Make Him Eat

Oct

2012

Everyday I fill my kids’ lunch boxes with a variety of healthy items; sliced apples, carrots, snap peas, besides the usual pasta, goldfish, turkey sandwich. And everyday they return home from school with a lunchbox void of all the carbs, but still full of sliced apples, carrots and snap peas. So I wasn’t surprised to read the New York Times Article, “No Appetite for Good-for-You Lunches” informing us of how teenagers at a high school outside of Pittsburg started a protest over the new healthy lunches. You can’t take kids and suddenly deprive them of fat, carbs, salt, and sugar and ...

The Kids Are Getting Bigger, Now What?

Oct

2012

I speak with many stay-at-home moms who tell me the same thing. “The kids are getting older and don’t need me as much, and I’m starting to get bored.” There are only so many errands to run and closets to clean out. Eventually, these women realize they need something else to fulfill them. But finding that “thing” can be really hard. Some of these women consider getting more involved in charity work or volunteering, but as much as that helps fill one’s time, it doesn’t do much to fill one’s sense of value, let alone pocketbook. There usually isn’t much ...