Father’s Day Breakfast-in-Bed Recipe Ideas

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    Father’s Day is only a couple of weeks away and I’ve been thinking about what a great opportunity to spoil the men in our lives who just so happen to be wonderful husbands and dads.   When we start to think about what gifts to get for our significant others, we tend to think [...]

Benefits of Filtered Water

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  Would you like to improve your appearance, reduce your risk of disease, boost your metabolism, and detoxify your body by doing something you already do every day? You can do this simply by replacing your tap water with healthy, great-tasting filtered water.  We all know that we should drink plenty of water to stay [...]

Snack Time Scrap Fun

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          The other day while at the doctor’s office, I was reading some back issues of Readers Digest and came across an article about this entrepreneur named Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle. TerraCycle is a New Jersey based business that revolutionized Upcycling. What exactly is upcycling? Well, basically it is the fine [...]

Helping Your Kids with Hygiene

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  Children don’t always understand why you ask them to do certain things like eating their vegetables, going to bed early, and of course, bathing and brushing their teeth regularly.  As a result, they may not be too keen to do these things.  And while you can watch them eat their dinner and tuck them [...]

What to Do if Your Child Falls Behind in School

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  Many children will go through phases where they want nothing to do with schooling.  This could be due to teachers they dislike, subjects that have grown difficult, of problems with friends that escalate to the point that they disrupt your child’s education.  While there are certainly steps you can take to address issues with [...]

Addressing Safety in the Home

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The safety of your home and your family is of the utmost importance.  And while you may have addressed basic security issues by installing a deadbolt on the front door, keeping doors and windows locked at all times, and even locking the garage, there are still plenty of ways that potential intruders could break into [...]

Fun and Educational Activities Kids Will Love

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    The summer is coming, and with it months of freedom for kids who may quickly become bored without the structure of school to keep them busy.  Instead of letting your children lounge around the house all day, watching TV, texting, and Tweeting about their utter boredom, find some fun and educational activities to [...]

Teaching Your Kids Responsibility with Pet Care

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You can teach your kids to care for themselves, making them attend to their personal hygiene, clean their rooms, put their dishes in the sink or dishwasher, and even do their own laundry at some point.  But until they learn to care for someone or something else, they won’t truly understand the weight of responsibility.  [...]

BYO (Bake-Your-Own) Granola

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      Granola costs an arm and a leg in the grocery store, which I realized about a year ago after I seemed to lose massive amounts of money every time I went shopping. But here’s the good news: granola is a snap to make yourself, and baking homemade granola is MUCH cheaper than [...]