Help Your Kids Learn to Love Fruits and Veggies
5 simple ways to increase fiber, vitamins and minerals in your kids’ diet, naturally. As parents, we all want our kids to grow and…
Easy Summer Dinner Ideas for Families
Summer gets us mommas and daddies off our usual schedule, which is SO FUN! And also challenging! It is difficult to be consistent with…
How to Feed Sugar to Kids
Feeding kids is tricky these days, what with all of the access to junk foods high in sugar, school celebrations, family parties and holidays…
The Family Table, an Axis Mundi, and You
It’s a wood table and five mismatched chairs at which my husband and two kids eat almost every night. This holiday season it will…
How to Keep Halloween Candy Fun for Kids (and parents, too!)
When I was growing up I LOVED fall and loved Halloween—I still do! The pumpkin carving, the apple picking, the candy corn, the fall…
3 Things Parents Can Do to Support Healthy Eating at School and Beyond
The school year has already begun here in the South Bay, which means that parents and kids are busy with classes and extra-curricular activities….
The Best Cereals for Kids at Trader Joe’s (And a Tip on How to Reduce Sugar at Breakfast)
Children require foods that pack a nutritional punch throughout the day, and especially in the mornings. But it can be tough to find the…
8 Beach Friendly Super Snacks for Kids
Here in the south bay, mommas and daddies love it when the May gray and June gloom days subside and we are able to…