Put Your Best Face Forward – Products to Help Maximize Your Beauty Routine
A Mom’s Guide to Better Beauty! As you all know, once you have children, the time you have to work on your beauty routine is drastically reduced. Therefore, it is so important that we find a few products that work really well! The following are a few of my go-to items you can use to help keep a fresh face in a short amount of time. Sunscreen Whether you use a daily sunscreen or a lotion that contains SPF, this is one of the best ways to prevent your skin from aging. Now that the weather will be...
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...
Teaching Young Girls to Demand Equality
An Important Lesson in Raising Equality Driven Young Women I have a vivid memory of being in an elementary class one day. My teacher had a request over the PA system to send a student down to the main office to pick up a box. Well, any excuse to get out of the classroom and do something different was something any of us kids would want. So, all of our ears perked up. However, my teacher was not always fair. She asked any STRONG BOYS to raise their hand and volunteer if they wanted to go to the office...
Mastering the Art of Doing Nothing
Bella Breakdown Whew! The holidays are over! I have to confess, as much as I LOVE the holidays, I am truly exhausted afterward and a bit relieved that they are over. I try to get in as much as possible during that time to make it special for my kids and our family. Therefore, I usually end up getting sick and crash afterward. Since this fun and busy time has passed, how can we work on simply just being? For most of us busy parents, doing nothing is simply not in our DNA. We are caught up in the...
Kid’s Gear – Bento Box Lunches: Holy Grail or Overhyped?
The 411 on Kid’s Bento Box Lunches If you are like many parents, you have probably sent one too many peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to school. I can certainly attest to having gotten stuck in a rut of making the same two or three choices day after day, week after week. Rather than a “typical” sack lunch- sandwich, fruit, etc, I decided to take a look at other options, such as Bento boxes. Bento boxes are basically a container with sections so you can separate the foods. Bento boxes look so good in all of the food blog and...
