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Cutting Grocery Costs without Cutting Nutrition

Simple, healthy, and affordable ways to weather the rising price of food

 

by Karen Collins, R.D., American Institute of Cancer Research

 

Grocery prices are projected to increase again in 2008 – that’s following 2007’s highest annual increase in 17 years. But surviving these tough economic times doesn’t have to mean sacrificing good nutrition. Some simple strategies can help you cut food costs and eat more healthfully, too.

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Eunice is Kid of the Month

 

Kids make a difference in the war on hunger

Christian group uses young volunteers to distribute food worldwide

 

If you sometimes get the feeling kids today only care about themselves, then maybe you should take a road trip to Brighton, Iowa, where a few nights each month dozens of children, heck, even teenagers, roll up their sleeves, don hair nets and go to work making meals for for hungry children thousands of miles away.

"It's changing them on the inside," says Don Fields. "Every one of these kids will want to come back and do this again."

 

Don Fields launched this operation two years ago, after a mission trip with his wife to Honduras. It's part of a national Christian program called Kids Against Hunger.

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10 Tips for Improving Your Family's Eating Habits

With today’s busy lifestyles, families don’t always eat as healthfully as we would like. But by practicing healthy eating habits at home, you can make it easier for your family to eat right. Try these 10 tips designed to encourage healthy eating habits:

1. Be a good food role model. Telling children to eat nutritious foods is one thing — showing them is better. If you offer nutritious foods regularly — and if they see you eating them — your children likely will learn to like them.

2. Serve a variety of fruits and vegetables daily. In addition to bananas and apples, try something new like kiwi or papaya. Add vegetables to stir fries or casseroles.

3. Schedule a snack time and stick to it. Space snacks at least two to three hours before a meal.

4. Involve kids in meal planning and preparation. Children often will eat foods they help plan and prepare.

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Basic Legal Recommendations for Women

 

by Michele Howe

According to Toledo attorney, Stephen Pennington, there are some fundamental legal concerns that every woman should understand, plan, and prepare for in order to best protect her financial assets in lieu of a possible divorce, death of a spouse, or for simple common sense financial survival. It is noteworthy that each of the potentially troubling monetary difficulties cited below arrives at a time when a woman is simultaneously coping with personal loss and pain, thus underscoring the need to take preparatory measures well in advance such major life events (upsets). For every woman who does prepare, there are countless more who do not and who pay the price both financially and emotionally.

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Your Child's Unique Learning Style!!!

 

by Harriet S. Mosatche and Karen Unger
from the Bay Area Parents

Many children have a dominant learning style, a preferred way of learning and acting. By tapping into your child's personality and understanding the lens through which he or she best relates to the world, you can help build a foundation of success and self-confidence, as well as an increased desire to learn.

 

In his ground breaking 1983 book, Frames of Mind: The theory of Multiple Intelligences, Howard Gardner questioned the traditional views of intelligence. He theorized that intelligence is more than just the math and verbal skills that are measured by an IQ test.

 

Gardner described at least eight intelligences, including strength in:

Reading

Math and logic

Forming personal relationships

Movement & athletics

Design and recognizing relationships

Singing and music

Understanding oneself

Understanding nature

 

Children usually have a combination of strengths, with one that may be dominants. As a parent, you may notice this dominance from the time your child is a toddler (an early reader, walker or musician). Or, you may see a child's style emerge and develop over time.

 

Gardner's theories are now commonly translated into many school programs and textbooks. Your child may no longer do a standard history report, instead acting out a famous incident in history, (good for the mover - a kinesthetic learner) or plotting a graph of historical events (good for a spatial learner - strength in design) or leading a project team (good for the interpersonal learner).

 

What Parents Can Do

 

If your child's classroom situation doesn't suit his preferred style of learning, you can use the strategies described below to work with his teachers or support his strengths at home. By focusing on your child's strengths and helping him discover new ones, you can use his achievements beyond the classroom to help him stay motivated at school.

 

Liz knew the alphabet very early and loved being read to. At 10, she's still rarely without a book in hand.

If you were Liz's parent, what strategy might you use to maintain her interest in reading, while also making sure she doesn't cut herself off from other opportunities?

 

Her love of reading helps her excel in many subjects, but you could also help her organize a book club with some classmates, so that reading becomes a route to friendship, or talk to her about what is she reading. Ask her questions such as, "What other ending could the book have had?" to help her analyze ideas.

 

Mathew has always been curious. As a toddler he loved looking for bugs outdoors and taking things apart and trying to put them back together. Completing worksheets is his idea of homework torture.

Look at Mathew's curiosity, strength in spatial relationships and love of nature as traits that will serve him well in his life. If he attends school that doesn't provide a lot of hands-on exportation, ask for a conference with the teacher. Perhaps you could work together to find assignments that allow him to use his interests in asking questions and experimenting/ Homework could be an opportunity for creativity - perhaps a paper and pencil task or report can transformed into a project. Instead of answering questions about air and water pollution, he could do experiments at home and share the results in class through a video he makes.

 

If the teacher is not receptive to reframing assignments, you can keep your child motivated by helping him complete his work as assigned and then creating that video together as a family activity. Encourage his interests through hobbies (camping or hiking) and find out about related after-school clubs (science or outdoors) and youth programs.

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Your 15-point tax-return checklist

by By Jeff Schnepper

It's time to start thinking about getting those taxes done. Maybe you're in a panic. Not to worry. Just follow Schnepper's 15 steps to getting your taxes done, and you'll be much happier. Ready?

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You May Have Too Much Debt But You Also Have Options

How Life Works

If you feel like you're in over your head with personal debt, you're not alone. Millions of Americans have become overextended, many as a result of easy credit and the recessions. Credit cards, medical bills, personal loans and raising interest rates do not make a good financial mix.

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Suze Orman's Recession Rescue Plan - helps you survive in times of financial crisis

OPRAH.com

Do you know what your family would do if you lost your job - or worse, your home? Financial expert Suze Orman is ready to help you devise a recession rescue plan to survive - and possibly thrive - during this deepening financial crisis...

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Could fat babies mean fat toddlers?

A new study from Harvard Medical School found that babies who gained weight quickly had a sharply higher risk of obesity. The study followed close to 600 babies and found those in the top quarter of weight for their length at 6 months had a 40 percent higher risk of obesity by age 3 than smaller babies.

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The 10-Ingredient Shopping Trip

By Tara Parker-Pope and Mark Bittman

... In his latest “How to Cook Everything” segment on the Today Show, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman makes it surprisingly easy to cook a week’s worth of dinners with just a 10-ingredient shopping trip.

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Finding last-minute tuition money

There's still time to find funds for this semester's college tuition. But you'll have to move quickly.

By Gerri Willis

It's only a couple of weeks or even days until school begins. And if you don't think you'll be able to get a handle on your college tuition bill, here with your guide to last minute money.

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Annette Bridges - Weekly Column

A story waiting to be heard

Are you a good listener?
I’ve always been told that good communication begins with good listening. And I’ve often wondered how many misunderstandings and conflicts could have been avoided by better listening.

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Your Just-in-Case Emergency Plan

by RealSimple

Who do you call if you can't make it home in time to meet the kids' bus? Who do you trust to take in your mail when you're on vacation? Who do you trust with the extra set of keys to your house?

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How to save $10,000

By Liz Pulliam Weston

If you were hoping for a list of small tweaks you could make in your spending to save $10,000 a year, sorry. The reality is that $10,000 is a lot of money. And saving big money usually means making big changes in the areas where we spend the most, such as: Housing, Transportation, Food.

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The Super, Sexy, Single Mom on a Budget

by Renee Rayles

A quick reference guide designed for the busy, single mom who has

little time to read while running the mom taxi, cooking dinner, helping with homework, and trying to fit in a date night every now and then.

32 and Counting? Finding Your Happily Ever After Today

by Gi Gi

The author talks about the struggles a single mom goes through and the discovery that you can have HEAT (Happily Ever After Today) just as you are, being single, taking care of your kids...

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Single Mothers &
Male Role-Models / Mentors

Single mothers carry an enormous load of responsibility, especially those having sole and/or primary custody of minor children. They nourish, they nurture, they teach, they discipline, they shelter, they protect, and they provide… all without the assistance of another equally-invested adult.

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Your 5-minute guide to protecting your identity

20 steps to protect yourself from identity theft, and seven ways to clean up things if you become a victim.

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TheOnlineMom.com offers parents and consumers a guide to the top-rated, age-appropriate, kid-tested and parent-approved tech toys and gifts.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
by Jeff Kinney

For those wondering why tween boys don’t read very much, the answer is that more books aren’t like this...

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What to get the kids? Think outside the toy box

You can find non-toxic dolls and cars, but there are other options, too

 

 

by Victoria Clayton, MSNBC contributor

Dangerous dolls, trains and other lead-tainted toys. Beads that metabolize into "date-rape" drugs. It's enough to ruin Christmas for any parent stressing over what's left to buy the tots this year.

 

After the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s recall of these and many other toys, moms like Stephanie Gonzalez just don't know what to think. "I’m assuming this is mostly about China," says Gonzalez, who lives in the Los Angeles area. “They must be using the most low-cost, bad-for-you products and chemicals because everything is so cheap.”

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AMERICA'S WORST RESTAURANTS FOR KIDS REVEALED

Eat This, Not That! Authors Grade 43 National Chains; 6 Receive an "F"

New York (August 1, 2008)

A year-long study of children's meals has revealed vast dietary differences among America's favorite fast-food and sit-down chain restaurants... and discovered that many of America's most popular chain restaurants are nutritional nightmares for America's children.

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7 Secrets to Raising a Happy Child

What Makes a Child Happy?

 

We all want the same things for our kids. We want them to grow up to love and be loved, to follow their dreams, to find success. Mostly, though, we want them to be happy. But just how much control do we have over our children's happiness? My son, Jake, now 7, has been a rather somber child since birth, while my 5-year-old, Sophie, is perennially sunny. Jake wakes up grumpy. Always has. Sophie, on the other hand, greets every day with a smile. Evident from infancy, their temperaments come, at least in part, from their genes. But that doesn't mean their ultimate happiness is predetermined, assures Bob Murray, PhD, author of Raising an Optimistic Child: A Proven Plan for Depression-Proofing Young Children -- for Life (McGraw-Hill).

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Do You Want To Know How Your Nanny Is Doing Her Job?

 

Sources by Amanda Bach

As we review some of the useful website each month, I want to introduce to you this new website HowsMyNanny.com - this website service started in the Fall of 2006 by Jill Starishevsk, a nine-year veteran of a District Attorney’s Office in New York City who works in the Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Bureau. While she was on maternity leave of her second child, she started this wonderful website. It is a service that provides license plates for strollers with a unique identifying number on them so if your nanny is out and about and does something bad to the baby or something praiseworthy, a passerby can get a message to the parent via the internet. HowsMyNanny.com website has received a great deal of press including Good Morning America, CNN, The BBC and Fox News National. Please spread the words about this as the more people who know about the site, the more likely a mom or dad is to receive a report if there is a problem.

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Daily Overview horoscope from Astrology.com

 

Aries - Mar 21 - Apr 19

 

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Gemini - May 21 - Jun 21

 

Cancer - Jun 22 - Jul 22

 

Leo - Jul 23 - Aug 22

 

Virgo - Aug 23 - Sep 22

 

Libra - Sep 23 - Oct 22

 

Scorpio - Oct 23 - Nov 21

 

Sagittarius - Nov 22 - Dec 21

 

Capricorn - Dec 22 - Jan 19

 

Aquarius - Jan 20 - Feb 18

 

Pisces - Feb 19 - Mar 20

 

Alcohol Prevention Web Site for Middle School Students

 

The Cool Spot Helps Young Teens Resist Peer Pressure and Alcohol Bethesda, Md. – A new version of The Cool Spot, a youth alcohol prevention Web site, launched this week. The site, aimed at 11- to 13-year-olds, was created by The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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