Just for Mom & Dad

Baby ring slings sounds like a dangerous game to play with your baby, but actually, it’s a twenty-first century term for the ancient practice of wearing your baby Our ancestors instinctively knew that new babies needed more time to complete the transition to the outside world after spending nine months in the comfort of the womb

Count the number of couples you know who separated or divorced when their kids were teens For most of us, it’s a pretty big number

One way or another, you must have protein in your diet. The RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) for protein is 0.36 grams of protein per pound of body weight. Based on this standard, a 75-pound child needs 27 grams of protein per day.

The diet a person follows for the next fifty years is probably the most significant factor in the overall health you will experience for the rest of life. Your daily nutritional deficiencies or lifestyle excesses are a pretty good predictor of where your health will be in a few years.

"Everything in moderation" is a great motto until you realize that moderate means different things to different people.

Eating whole grains has many advantages. With the bran and germ still intact, all the original fiber remains in the grain. In addition to all the dietary benefits of the fiber, it also slows down digestion of the starch, retarding the acid spike. The whole grain contains almost all of the other nutrients in the grain- the alkalinizing minerals, especially magnesium, the vitamins and the essential fatty acids.

The 5 A Day challenge, offered by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) - a branch of the National Institutes of Health- is to eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day.

Most current nutrition science points to mono-unsaturated fats as the best possible dietary fats. In general, they lower cholesterol. Olive oil and canola oil are both mono-unsaturated.

Low carb. Slow carb. No carb. Whole carb. Everybody’s talking about carbs. It all sounds good, but who’s right, and just what are they all talking about, anyway?

Parenting has been called “the highest yoga”, and for good reason. Where else do you have the challenge and opportunity to be your most mindful at each moment? Where your every communication has the potential to create conflict or upliftment? Children respond either consciously or unconsciously to the vibratory energy of each moment. Much of the time, we adults have lost our sensitivity to the energy that vibrates between us all. Children can make us painfully aware of our gaps in awareness.