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Social Distancing at School: Best Practices to Teach Kids
You may be wondering with so many schools doing a hybrid school session for fall 20200 & beyond, how you will possibly get your children to wear masks at school and keep them on in order to prevent the spread of germs. Children are notorious germ spreaders. If you need any convincing, just think of their daily habits. Talking too close to each other, touching unnecessarily, slobbering on toys which they then share because of that is what they were told to do, and other delightful germ infested practices seem to be the standard kid modus operandi, at least for younger children. While it may be more difficult to control…
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Tips for Masks and School-Aged Kids
In many school districts around the country, children will be returning to school sometime this month. This school may take a variety of forms but face-to-face instruction may be a part for many families. This will require the children to wear masks. Training children to wear a face mask during school in order to prevent the spread of germs will no doubt be one of the more harrowing and challenging aspects of being a teacher during the 2020 – 2021 school year. Parents as well will likely face their share of difficulties in enforcing mask wearing protocol in order to protect children and prevent further spreading of Coronavirus. Below find…
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Protect Your Eyes and Eyesight
August is Eye Exam Month and Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month. This post will focus more on adult eye care. I plan to tweet about children’s eye health. On to the topic! Our eyes may be small, but they are mighty. They have an incredibly important job and we depend on our eyes far more than we probably realize. They don’t just give us the visual picture of what’s in front of us. They help us sense danger, bring vivid colors to our memories and they are instrumental how we respond to any given circumstance or situation. Have you ever cried watching a breathtakingly emotional scene in a movie? …
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Self-Care Tips to Manage Emotional Eating
Outside of the normal physical things that people do to maintain their health, there are a number of ways in which the emotional state of a person can influence what they are able to achieve in their day to day lives. This is especially true of health goals involving food, weight loss, or any other goal that relies heavily on maintaining some kind of discipline. Having a healthy mindset should be the foundation of any plan for success, so this article will include some tips on self-care to manage emotional eating. Keep Track of Your Achievements One positive form of reinforcement can be found in the simple method of recording…
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Emotional Eating: A Primer on Intuitive and Mindful Eating
As the need for dietary options has become massive as obesity rates climb higher and higher, new research suggests that there are people who could benefit from dietary plans that avoid employing the same strategies that other diets do. These methods involve changing the way you think about eating. If you knew that you could work a program where you can eat all kinds of different foods, lose weight, and feel happy, would you be excited to try it? If so, check out this guide on how intuitive eating and/or mindful eating can help you. Most Diets Fail Most of the reason that the majority of diets fail is that…
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Journaling Evolves With You
When it comes to journaling, there are many ways to go about it. Some people like specific types of journals like gratitude or daily journals, while others simply like to use their journals when they need to get something off their chest. Regardless of which way you use yours, one important thing to keep in mind is that your journaling process and the benefits you get from it can actually evolve with you, as you get older, and through different phases of your life. Your Topics May Change Remember that what you write about at the beginning of your journaling journey isn’t necessarily what you are going to write about…
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Why You Should Journal if You Are an Emotional Eater
Do you eat meals that are larger than they should be? If so, do you know what kinds of things contribute to this? No? Perhaps you might want to try keeping a journal. Emotional eating journaling can be an extremely effective way to peer into your daily routine and learn new information about yourself. Once you’ve looked at the information that you’ve collected, you can then begin to make some changes in your habits. Learn What Triggers You Keeping a journal is important because it can give you specific information about the times of day, moods that you were in, and what you ate. This can give you a more…
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Iced Tea Musings
I am a Southern woman of color. The past two weeks have been incredibly scary and uplifting at the same time. Disturbing and soul-stirring… I have a teenage son who is going off to college in a couple of months (maybe — COVID may have something to say about that!) We have had the talk many times — more now since he is driving. I have always known that his leaving the house would be bittersweet — happy he is moving on towards his dreams but afraid of his being out in the world. We talked about what happened in Minneapolis over 2 weeks ago. He understands . It kind…
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Stuffed Papaya Bowls
My husband loves papaya. This recipe uses papaya. That is almost all… 😁 This is Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Month. These Fresh Stuffed Papaya Breakfast Bowls fit right in! This is a fun tropical breakfast. You will feel like you are on a lovely island… Just an FYI: This flexible recipe includes 3 variations. Please note, though one set of images shows Nutiva® Superseed Blend (a mixture of ground flax, chia, hemp & coconut) in lieu of plain chia seeds. You can buy this here by clicking on the link.
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Emotional Eating: Learn the Hunger Scale
Do you have trouble finding out if you’re hungry or just trying to fill some kind of need? Eating and the psychology behind it are notoriously complex things even though it’s a common part of life for living things. If you want to be more in control, then it would be a great idea to gain some of the tools that you can use to get a handle on your eating habits. If you continue to read on, you will learn the hunger scale to know if you’re actually hungry. It’s Important to Eat Slow One of the important things about making a hunger scale is that you must eat…
