NUTRITION
Prepare home-cooked family meals for under $10
Times are tough on families' budgets right now-and that means being resourceful and creative with meal preparation is more important than ever. When watching the health of your family and your budget, it's smart to use products that you have on hand that can add flavour and variety to routine meals.
Letting go of the fast-food guilt:
Any parent who has ever packed a lunch has been hit with a case of Old Mother Hubbard and her bare cupboard. With SOS written all over your face, you race to the grocery store at midnight or before the bell rings the next morning (24-hour grocery stores are built on the backs of ill-prepared parents), desperate to feed your child....Your top 10 mealtime problems, solved
Your toddler is a huge fan of macaroni and cheese—and practically nothing else. Your preteen sneaks out the door without so much as a bite of breakfast. Your grade schooler has developed an acute case of sandwich phobia.... Sound familiar? Here are some parent-proven solutions to your top biggest mealtime challenges....In favour of the family meal
There are many good reasons to try to eat together as a family once a day. It’s a chance to slow down, connect and share everyone’s day. Increasingly, research is also showing family meals are better for children’s physical, emotional and mental health....
Bottled water causes cavities?
Drink more water. It’s a message children are responding to, but now dentists fear that advice may be causing cavities. ...Surviving night terrors
Waking to our children’s cries in the middle of the night is a normal occurrence all parents experience. However, what Jane Werger, mother of three, was experiencing was far from normal....How to protect your child from household chemicals
Did you know that more than half of all hospital visits for children under five years old are due to poisoning and other injuries from household chemical products?...The Lunch Lady has arrived
Hot lunches have changed forever. No more brown bags and soggy sandwiches. No more rushing around in the morning only to learn you’re out of granola bars and 100 per cent juice boxes. There is a solution for busy parents who are also concerned about maintaining balanced meals for their children. The Lunch Lady will take care of it for you....
Healthy eating
Would it surprise you to know that in Canada, more than one million children live below the poverty line defined by Statistics Canada? Or that 50 per cent of all food bank users are children? Yet, poverty is not the only reason for inadequate nutrition. The fact is that Canada's children are going to school hungry regardless of where they live or their socioeconomic status. Statistics show that more than 40 per cent of children don't eat breakfast on a daily basis....
Festive feasting: How to keep it healthy
The holiday season is a wonderful time, but it can also be challenging for parents who have been working hard all year to ensure that their children are eating healthily....- Sleep is elusive for me
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08 April, 2009 05:10:32
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26 March, 2009 03:58:18
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19 March, 2009 04:24:04
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14 March, 2009 08:39:48
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11 February, 2009 04:58:53
I'll share with you something my father told me when I had my children. It's a fairly new ideology, within the history of man, that ...
