How to Raise a Reader

How to Raise a Reader

It’s easy for your routine as a family to fall apart during the summer. Your kids are at the pool, playing ball, and having fun with their friends, but you’re still busy with work. Even though it’s vacation time and your children are no longer in school, it’s up to...
Sensitivity and the Adopted Family

Sensitivity and the Adopted Family

Family, friends, and strangers may mean well, but their remarks on your adoption or adopted family can really annoy and even hurt. Often, people don’t even realize they’re asking intrusive questions. We’ve compiled a list of a few things not to say to a...
Helping Your Child Adjust to a New Baby

Helping Your Child Adjust to a New Baby

It can be tough for a toddler to welcome a new baby into his life. It’s perfectly normal for your firstborn to be jealous of your newborn. He might feel that he’s being replaced or grow to resent the baby for taking up his parents’ time. Here are a few tips on how to...
How to Bring Respect Back Into Your Marriage

How to Bring Respect Back Into Your Marriage

When you first enter a relationship, showing respect for your partner and your relationship might seem easy: you make time for each other, you call or text each other throughout the day, you send flowers or buy dinner for one another. After years of being together,...
Don’t Underestimate the Importance of a Good Night’s Sleep!

Don’t Underestimate the Importance of a Good Night’s Sleep!

Adequate sleep is an important part of a healthy lifestyle that can benefit your heart, memory, mind, and weight (to name a few). The hour spent before bedtime can set the tone for how you’ll sleep that night. According to the National Sleep Foundation, at least...
What’s Your Relationship With Food?

What’s Your Relationship With Food?

According to a report recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine, more than one-third of Americans are overweight. The new study looked at obesity and overweight rates in the United States. An addiction to food can quickly lead to obesity, heart disease, strokes,...