How to Help Elderly Parents Age Independently

Help your parents age independently while ensuring their health, safety and quality of life.

Tips for Documenting Everyday Family Moments

When raising a family, it’s easy to get caught up in the chaos. Between working full-time, trips to soccer practice, preparing dinner and endless piles of laundry, it can be difficult to take a step back and live in the moment. Although you always take pictures at birthday parties and family reunions, the truth is that some of the biggest family moments are actually the everyday, ordinary ones. Here are a few tips for snapping some great photos and documenting family time together, so you can look back at those moments for years to come.

Lighten Up: Mac and Cheese

Dial down the calories and turn up nutrition. The kids won’t notice the swap.

Tips For Protecting Your Family From Recalled Items

How do you find out what products are recalled and how to keep your family safe? We’ve included tips on ways to protect your family from future recalls.

Home Alone: Single Parent’s Guide to Home Safety

Keeping our children safe is a concern parents face all day, every day. But is it a concern that the 9.9 million single moms in the United States have to take extra precautions against? With the current statistics in regards to crimes against women, it certainly couldn’t hurt. Here are some extra precautions to take in and around your home to keep you and your children safe.

Baby Reback #16

David & Lyette Reback welcome their 16th child. They chose a very special name for him.

Faster Weight Loss

Rebalancing “when” you eat your calories could make a difference you’ll see on the scale.

Couples and Money

Money can come between you and your spouse if you don’t have open conversations about it.

Top 5 Tips for Hosting a Smooth Thanksgiving

Playing host on Thanksgiving is an honor that comes with the potential for serious stress. While it’s true that you can’t please everyone all of the time it’s just so tempting to try. In the age of social media, picture perfection has become the goal, and celebration and togetherness can end up playing second fiddle. But the antidote to Thanksgiving pressure is surprisingly simple Ì¢‰â‰ÛÏ just keep these five tips in mind as you plan your holiday.

Personal Responsibility: It Can Be A Crappy and Short-Sighted Goal

How do other moms and dads teach their children “personal responsibility?” Personal Responsibility is a fantastic starting line in our parenting goals, but if that is the end goal, it greatly misses the mark. It pretty much teaching them to think ONLY of themselves. Lyette, as a Mom to 15 children, gives us her views on teaching a child to not think only of themselves but how to serve others, trading “chores” for “zones” in the home.

Making Time for Yourself: When Mom Is Happy, Everyone Is Happy

A well-rested, emotionally balanced and physically healthy mom can accomplish more than a mom who is constantly overwhelmed and stressed.

Top Online Learning Tools for Kids

What if I told you more children know how to operate a computer mouse than how to tie their shoes? Would you believe it? It’s true. Technology is a huge part of our children’s lives, but there’s more to it than games and social networking. From tots to teens, here are today’s top online learning tools for kids of all ages.

What is the Right Age to Give a Kid a Smartphone?

Nothing like starting ’em young. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, more than one-third of babies are playing with tablets and/or smartphones, and it turns out one in seven toddlers uses those same devices for at least an hour daily. Kids are embracing technology earlier than ever before, but as an expectant mother of two, Jen wondered: What’s the right age to give them a smartphone to call their very own? She decided to ask the best experts she could find: Moms.

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