Last week, actress Jessica Alba and author of Healthy Child Healthy World, Christopher Gavigan launched their new product line, The Honest Company. Both parents felt the need for a line of safe, sustainable products that would ease parent’s concerns about exposing their child to dangerous chemicals. The Honest Company is a line of eco-friendly, handsomely [...]Read more...
Social Media as a Negotiating Tool for Sales
Social media has blown onto the scene in the last couple of years with popular websites like Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and many others. Social media has been great for keeping up with friends and family. For salespeople and business owners, an important question is, "Can social media help in negotiating?" Yes! Read on ...
Shortening the Second Shift: Help at Home
Do you work outside of the home, squeezing telephone calls about ballet class and soccer practice between board meetings, only to come home to make dinner, give the kids a bath, oversee their homework, and put them to bed too? Every so often, do you flare up at your husband—you just can't do it all anymore? Julie Shields, author of "How to Avoid the Mommy Trap," shares her tips on a more equal partnership on the home front. Read on ...
Five Mistakes Connected Parents Make Connective parenting puts a different spin on the traditional parent-child relationship where the parent is the teacher and the child is a submissive student. In connective parenting, parents are teachers but are also students of their children as well. Its approach is raising truly responsible, respectful human beings without punishment or blame. As with all endeavors, connected parents make mistakes. Here are the top five. Read on ...
The Best Time to Do Everything
Have you ever noticed that your mind is sharpest in the midmorning? Or that you can walk farther or faster in the late afternoon? These patterns aren't a fluke. The reality is that your body has its own internal clock, which triggers 24-hour hormonal and temperature fluctuations that affect how you feel and function throughout the day. Read on ...
Blue Suit Mom great find: Trickomatics
Trickmoatics is a fun, entertaining, effective math program using an alternative approach of Hollywood entertainment and interactive technology for teaching children, ages 7–11, how to think in numbers. Read on ...
Teaching Kids Animal Compassion
Children can learn so many valuable lessons by caring for a pet. Having pets at a young age instills kids with a sense of confidence that they can take care of an animal and help it to live a thriving life. Veterinarian Dr. Tim Hunt provides some pointers for choosing your child's first pet. Read on ...