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Are Today’s Teens Materialistic?

May

2013

When I was a kid, I worked my butt off doing chores around the house and spent my weekends at a minimum wage job. I cut the grass, shoveled snow, painted the deck, cleaned the pool, you name it, whatever had to be done around the house, it was the job of the kids. My dad only showed us one time how to do something and then we were on our own to figure it out. As a young teenager I knew how to change the oil in the tractor, re-shingle a roof, tile a bathroom and even sheetrock and spackle. ...

20 Things You Didn’t Know About…Coffee

Apr

2013

Happy Monday to all and I’m sure everyone is so excited to be back at work and moving rather slow. For all you coffee drinkers out there who have already had a least a cup today, I saw a great article in the April 2013 issue of Discover Magazine by Rebecca Coffey that’s pretty good…enjoy! 20 Things You Didn’t Know About…Coffee Joe. Java. Go juice. Whatever you call it, you’re probably drinking it. Now find out how coffee is connected to a Bach cantata, enemas, and elephant dung. 1. Forget 5-Hour Energy. The original pick-me-up may have come from the nomadic ...

Bacon – The Next Health Craze? … And 4 More Unlikely Good-for-You Foods

Feb

2013

Having a bad day today, I decided to pig out a bit so I made myself a big, cheesy omelette and 5 pieces of thick, fatty, yummy bacon for lunch. When I came back to my computer, I stumbled across an article on, you guessed it, bacon. Now I don’t feel so bad! Bacon has always been popular, but now it’s the standard by which many express affection with the ubiquitous online meme: I love you more than bacon. It’s considered by many to be the ultimate food indulgence, but according to Dr. John Salerno, a protégé of “Atkins Diet” ...

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’s Christmas Wish List

Dec

2012

So I may have not gotten everything on my list, but we had a great Christmas! Written by Alyssa Banko Published in SCV Health &Family Magazine January 2013 A publication of The Signal I so enjoy this time of year. The holiday season brings decorating, shopping, baking, entertaining and just spending quality time with family and friends but…it’s also that time of year when moms everywhere tend to get a few more grey hairs, see more pounds appear on the scale, search aimlessly for sales, lose their tempers in long lines and rack their brains to find the perfect gifts. Face the facts, ...

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 ...

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 ...