Create a Child-Safe Home Office
Create a Child-Friendly Home OfficeBy Brette McWhorter SemberSafety is key in a home office. Once you have a safe work space, the next step...
Ready for Fall Fashion
By the time the Washington region has its second or third day of Septemberheat and humidity, I’m already mentally fast-forwarding to autumn. I can’t...
Ten Things You Can Do for Child Abuse Prevention Month
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month! The future of this great country of ours rests on our children. While the vast majority of parents...
Summer Reading
The skin you live in.By Michael Tyler Illustrated by David Lee Csicsko Whenever you look at you beautiful skin.From your wriggling toes to your giggling...
Staying Trim in 2011
This is YOUR year! Use these simple tips to stay healthy and trim this year!Hungry? Try these ideas instead! Do an activity that takes...
Tips from the Trenches: Raising Tweens
I have four children, two boys and two girls. Three have made it out of their tween years, two into teendom and one all...
Start a Wine Tasting Club
Start a Wine Tasting Club!Recently, a friend asked me to write about starting a wine tasting club, mentioning that this type of club was...
Getting Ready for Summer
Wintercan leave our skin, hair and toes feeling rough. Get themsummer-ready with these simple and easy tips! FeetExfoliatethose winter callusesUse apumice stone, then an exfoliating...
When Bad Things Happen. Talking to Children about Disasters
Children are asking questions about what is happening to the people impacted by our recent Hurricanes – or asking why it happened to them.After...
How Have You Grown With Your Kids?
"I have grown....DOWN! Over the years I have learned to get down on my kids' levels. It makes life more interesting and it helps...
