Healthy Living is a place on our website where you can find more about how to live a healthy and sustainable lifestyle. There are so many factors in our daily lives that all contribute to our overall health – nutrition, environment, products – it is important for us to take a holistic look at how we can better our health in all we do.
Category: Preschool
Just when you’ve got the sleep routines and potty training down, a whole new set of challenges (and delights!) emerge during the preschool years. You’re in luck because here you’ll find articles, videos and events from finding the right preschool for your family, to effective ways to deal with different temperaments, preparing for a new sibling, developmental milestones, dealing with picky eaters, and more!
Healthy Living — Talking To Our Contributors
We invited three of our regular contributors to share the tips and tricks we can all use to create a better environment for ourselves and our families and largely our world.
Healthy Living Radio Show- May 30 at 1 p.m. ET
Mommybites and Lemi Shine launch a new section on June 1 all about Healthy Living. Healthy Living will be a place on our website where you can find more about how to live a healthy and sustainable lifestyle. There are so many factors in our daily lives that all contribute to our overall health – nutrition, environment, products – it is important for us to take a holistic look at how we can better our health in all we do.
Green Parenting: Toxic Babies
Penelope Jagessar Chaffer was curious about the chemicals she was exposed to while pregnant: could they affect her unborn child? So she asked scientist Tyrone Hayes to brief her on one he studied closely: atrazine, a herbicide used on corn. The results are staggering.
The Green Ploy: Broccoli and Your Lil’ One
Your trustworthy sitter has seen it all. She is the expert on making your child happy; she has babysat every age, experienced numerous personalities and has a boat-load of sneaky ways to distract and excite your child at the dinner table.
Benefits of Outdoor Play
Not only is the playground a wonderful opportunity to expend energy and hang out with friends, but it is also a way for our body to work on big muscle skills.
Green Parenting: Safe Sunscreen
The 2012 Guide to Safer Sunscreens list was just published this week is an incredibly helpful ranking of most major sunscreens on the market (there’s also a FREE iPhone app). While there have been some disappointment in past studies, overall the list is a good place to start when looking for safer sunscreens to use on your family.
Treasure the Everyday Moments
This past Mother’s Day my sons presented me with cards that they had made at school,sharing some of their favorite “mommy memories.” It occurred to me as I was reading their cards that neither boy wrote about “big” events such as holidays, birthdays or vacations. They wrote instead about our walks to the bus stop […]