Category Archives: Parenting

When A Child Is Diagnosed With Leukemia…

One of our Carnival Mom’s Jennae, of Green Your Decor and Green and Gorgeous, emailed us yesterday sharing the news that her 4 yr old daughter was diagnosed with Leukemia.  To add, her husband is out of work due to a layoff, she’s the only breadwinner – owner of her own graphic design business and [...]

Holiday Gifting And Children

A question was recently posed about gifting and children…There are some families that holiday gift for quantity.  They are oblivious to the waste they produce. The gifts they give are often of no practical use. It’s all about volume and getting. The lack of ceremony had folks tearing off wrapping paper with no acknowledgement of where [...]

Fish Oil Is Necessary For Your Kid

Omega-3’s are hugely important for baby’s brain and visual development.  Supplementing EPA/DHA is necessary since dietary sources are limited .95% of Americans are deficient.  Wow. Breast-fed babies of mothers who supplemented with Omega-3’s, years later,scored higher on standardized tests of reading, visual interpretation, nonverbal skills and math.  Researchers found that boys with ADHD have significantly lower [...]

Your Pregnancy And Folic Acid

Below is an article written by Dr Steve Chaney, who is a high level sales leader in our field, remarkable published researcher and professor in the department of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of North Carolina’s Medical School.I have always appreciated Dr Chaney’s way of explaining things and after reading this felt it would be [...]

Not All Prenatal Vitamins Are Created Equal

When pregnant please be sure to take a high quality prenatal vitamin – not all prenatal supplements are created equal
Information below is courtesy of nutritionist and my mentor Barbara Lagoni
Company Difference: Our nutrition products are tested for purity, potency, safety, quality as well as its availability to the cells. The recommendations below are for high quality [...]

Autism And Nutritional Supplementation

This post is a rather comprehensive commentary. It’s also a bit long.
Most of the commentary is not mine.
I am sharing the information below with the permission of Laurence Becker, whom as small as our wonderful world is, I met at a national convention several years ago.
I had no idea of his involvement with autism or the breadth of his sharing and [...]

The Belly Button Series

When my daughter was born she nursed fast and furiously. It was as if she had places to go — people to see. She was a child who wanted to do absolutely everything. Fearless. Precocious.Talented. Utterly Joyful. 
Turns out my daughter is a very passionate and confident performer. Poise, grace, charm, humorous and dramatic are just a few of [...]

Moms Know Best

  Moms have a gut instinct that rules the universe. When we are new to motherhood, we have to learn to trust this gut feeling. This inner mama drive has us know when to hug, when to yell, when to scream and when to say exactly the right thing at the right time. It’s pretty darn amazing.Last year on [...]

Holiday Wellness Gifting

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Do You Remember Your Eighteenth Birthday?

My daughter turned 18 today!  Since it was the last day of the holiday weekend we chose a homespun day, a special breakfast feast with brother. It was an awful day out, sleet, snow and grey skies. My Kate often asks me to share the story of the day she was born: Twas a day [...]