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5 Tips for Kids to Stop Germ Spread
Are you worried about how your virtual, at-home schooling experience will go during the 2020 and 2021 calendar year? Many parents share your concerns and fears. One lesson that’s never too early to begin teaching at home is how to prevent the spread of germs. Keeping your germs to yourself is extremely valuable, whether in a pandemic or not. Your older kids already probably have a good handle on covering their mouths when sneezing or coughing. However, if your children are in preschool or still in the early grades, then they may not have yet established self-control. This is an important time to instill good habits. Also keep in mind that…
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How to Reflect on Your Life With Your Journal
If you are using your journal to gain more clarity and want to use it for reflection, the following questions will help you do just that. Dig Deep – Where have you been holding back? To start with, think about where in your life you might be holding back. What don’t you write about? What crosses your mind, that your instantly try to get out of your head? In what way are you keeping things to yourself, hiding your feelings, or not being completely transparent either with other people in your life or with what you choose to write about in your journal. What brings you the most joy? Reflect…
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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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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…
