Function or Fashion: What do your teens wear to school in the winter?
0My high school daughter left for school the other day in her sneakers…with feet of snow and ice on the ground!
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Sledding, Physics and Helmets…All Part of the Same Equations
Don’t tell this to my kids – but my favorite place to sled as a kid was a hill in the woods behind a friend’s house. And, my second favorite hill was at the high school, Senior Hill, which ended at the driveway entering the campus. Talk about violating just about every sledding rule there is! If I only knew then what I know now.
Frostbite and Frostnip: what you need to know
It’s hard to tell what’s wearing on people quicker these days…the constant shoveling or the dipping temperatures.
Pick Three Goals for a Healthy New Year!
Making those lists each January feels fantastic! What we need to do now is find to actually fulfill them!
Happy Belated New Year!
0Well it may look as if I’ve disappeared, I’ve been around…just very, very unplugged.
Holiday Myths and Kids
0“She still believes in Santa?”, my relative asked about my youngest daughter. “When will you tell her the truth isn’t she too old?”
Smart Holiday Decorating
While decorating the house is at the core of what makes holiday gatherings so wonderful, the very items that bring the winter holidays to life also contain a great many dangers. Thanksgiving marks the start of the holiday decorating season.
Protect Your Child from Winter
Record snow is everywhere! However, where there is outdoor fun there are always unexpected injuries.
Preparing for Winter Fun
Do you know what preparing for a ski vacation and getting your children off to school during the freezing winter months have in common? More than you may think! Not only are the elements the same – ice/snow/wind/cold, but the dangers and the precautions needed are really the same. Yet our expectations for how we dress our children are somehow very different. If your family is anything like mine, they look far from artic warriors when they head off to school but could be mistaken for Eskimos on the slopes.
New Year’s Resolutions: 12 Months of Change with Small Changes, Big Results
0Happy New Year! The arrival of a new year grants us another opportunity to tackle those issues we love to jot in our minds as important but somehow never quite accomplish as we had hoped. That’s the problem with most resolutions. They seem so daunting we basically freeze.
