How to keep your New Year Resolution to exercise this year
New Year Resolutions get a bad rap. We fear the sense of failure if we can’t maintain our goals, In fact, research from the University of Scranton suggests that only 8% of people achieve their New Year’s goals. However, a study published in the Journal of...
Avoiding holiday meltdowns
Thanksgiving caught us with our pants down – maybe not literally, but it was a couple days earlier on the calendar this year and then, YIKES – Black Friday! Our stress meters are instantly fully engaged. Black Friday has come to represent Warrior Mode for many of us....
The best family vacation for the lowest price
A family vacation is essential to bonding and building memories that last a lifetime, but vacations can be really hard to squeeze into the family budget. Every family wants to take their kids to Disney World at least once, but that’s a seriously expensive bucket...
Getting our kids off electronics
Kids and electronics today often seem like a match made in heaven as they preoccupy our kids for hours on end while we catch up on rest, cleaning … or our own guilty pleasures. But, most of us know the potentially addictive nature of electronics and would rather...
4 fears facing a newly single mom
There’s nothing scarier to a new mom than going it alone. While separating from your baby’s dad may come as a relief from mental and/or physical anguish, it will leave you face to face with the fear of caring for a small child all by yourself – there goes...
Anxiety in our children is on the rise. Why?
It seems to me that most of today’s kids have so much more than my peers and I did thirty-plus years ago, yet studies are showing anxiety in children to be on a steady rise in the 21st century. A study published in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral...
Three different families from a single mom’s viewpoint
Bringing a new human life into the world may be an every day event in the grand scheme, but to a young couple it is as new and foreign as moving to the other side of the world. Couples struggle with their identities as life presents new challenges and fazes – college,...
How my misguided mom became my hero – conclusion
Last week I wrote about how my mother’s controlling behavior and her contempt for men drove our family apart. Our family became increasingly fragmented since I was a young girl. By my early teen years, I secretly wished they would divorce; sparing me the burden...
How my misguided mom became my hero
I had a pretty contentious relationship with my mother growing up. She was a child of the 60s and found her identity in the feminist movement… to a fault. She never missed a chance to take a jab at men for suppressing women and ravaging the world in...
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