Positive parenting when disciplining has helped many families to achieve greater harmony, and this approach may be especially important for parents raising children with ADHD. Because a child with ADHD can have a tougher time regulating and controlling their emotions. My oldest hugs me with the same amount of emotion as he uses when he…
How to be a calm parent to an ADHD kid
The Secret to Keeping Calm with Your Kid Being a calm parent protects your relationship with your kid and helps you to deal with challenging situations. And those situations will come up a lot if your kid has a diagnosis, like ADHD. Still, it is difficult to keep your cool around the clock. If you…
How to Get Your Kids to Listen to you
Even the most well-behaved children have selective hearing at times. I have one of those. One day they don’t seem to even recognize that you’re speaking. The next, they clearly hear you but are failing to follow your directions. It doesn’t even have to be separate days. With mine, it can happen in a matter…
5 Ways to Motivate Your Kids to Get Things Done
Getting kids to do chores can be a chore in itself. But motivation can be equally hard to inspire in kids. It can be the dishes, the laundry, the homework, or a lot of different things that need to be done so that we all have a clean house and a clean slate. In this…
4 Simple Ways to Improve Life for Your ADHD Child
Does your child have ADHD? My oldest does. He is recently diagnosed. We knew he had it because all the signs were there, but it wasn’t official. And with my husband having it and all his brothers as well, it wasn’t that hard to do the math that one or all of our children would…
Why breastfeeding doesn’t make you a better mom
Hands up, I will be the first to agree that breast milk is the best food for your baby. It has all the nutritional goodness a growing baby needs, as well as the antibodies that you as a mom have accumulated. Nursing can also help you as the mom lose the baby weight and protect…
How to Eat for a Healthy Pregnancy
We have all heard it, don’t eat this and don’t eat that. But when you are pregnant it is a whole nother ballgame. When you are pregnant what you can and can’t eat becomes more important because it affects not only your health but the health of your baby. Things like Listeria and Toxiplasmosis become…
An Easy Favorite: Tuna and Spaghetti bake
This is a dish that is part of my childhood and it always brings me comfort. It can be served in separate dishes, spaghetti with tuna sauce, but I have always found that melted cheese makes it better. The casserole is excellent to make as meal prep or as homemade lunch the next day. Feeds…
How to keep your sanity while pregnant
Keeping your sanity at the same time as your body is going through all of these changes, is tough. You have morning sickness. Maybe it is your 2nd+ kid so you have a child that stick to you like velcro, while you just want to sleep. Your legs swell with water retention. Or you have cravings, weird or otherwise. Read on to find out ways to keep you sane while pregnant.
10 Tips on How To Get Pregnant
Both Scientific and Folk-lore based A small disclaimer. Everything written in this post is not to be taken as a medicinal fact. If you have trouble getting pregnant and feel like you have tried everything, go talk to your GYN or your GP. They are there to help. When I and my husband were trying…