Fantastic Father’s Day Gifts For Your Favorite Man

Bella Breakdown Father’s Day is right around the corner and everyone is pumped to celebrate the big day with their favorite man. Celebrate dad with these fun and amazing gifts. Cornhole Set Who doesn’t love a fun game of cornhole for get-togethers and tailgating at concerts or sporting events? This gift is something that everyone in the family can enjoy while spending some more time together. HyperChiller This unique device is great for iced coffee fans, instantly chilling piping hot coffee into an iced coffee in a minute without diluting the coffee with watered-down ice. The HyperChiller is also...

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Mom And Dad, Best Roommates Ever?

Bella Breakdown After I graduated high school, I lived on my own and paid my own rent for five years. To me, I felt like there was no way I would ever move back with my parents. That was until I found myself 22, recently single, and 8 months pregnant. I was basically Khloe Kardashian without the net worth. I felt embarrassed to be back in my hometown, in the same room I spent my childhood in. But, I’m definitely not the only one in this group of millennials whose parents, at some point in their adult lives, have...

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We See You, New Dad

Bella Breakdown New moms definitely get a lot of attention, as they should. Hello, they just grew and birthed an entire human being, and they feed them. From their own bodies! However, let us not forget that with every new mom, there’s a new dad waiting in the wings for when they can finally be of use. The new dad, especially the new modern dad, knows that he is equally as much of a parent as the mother of his child is. Dads know that they have a very large role to play in this child’s life. It’s a...

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Finding the Balance Between “Helicopter Mom” and “Free Range Parenting”

Bella Breakdown We have all seen the parents who hover around their children, doing everything for them and jumping in before their child even gets to try something on his own. I even used to have a student whose mom would come to school and organize her daughter’s messy desk once a week before I politely asked her to stop. I reminded her that she would never learn how to do it by herself otherwise. On the other end of the spectrum are the parents who are more “free range”, allowing children to be unsupervised and unmonitored, often left...

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Taking Care of Mom and Dad: How to Prevent and Tackle Colds and the Flu

Parents, Don’t Let the Yucky Flu Get You Down!! Our job as parents is full time, 24-7. We can’t call in sick or coast through the day with our head down on the desk. We don’t have time to be sick! So what do WE do to both prevent getting sick, and to feel better as quickly as possible when we do? How To Fend Off the Flu The first, and most obvious goal is to not get sick in the first place. The best way to prevent the transfer of germs is to wash your hands. The CDC recommends scrubbing your...

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