Parenting
How do you raise active kids and stay fit as a parent while keeping a smile on your face? This is not a trick question, it’s something I ask myself regularly. To me an active lifestyle is part of a happy life because when you exercise your body feels better, you’re less stressed and you [...]
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Have you ever gotten lost? If you have, you know it’s not fun – sometimes scary – and one of your main concerns is probably that your kids never get lost either. Or that if they do get lost, they can find their way out. One obvious solution is to accompany your children everywhere and [...]
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What makes children creative? What makes them come up with something that captivates them or others? Or as defined by neuroscientist Rex Jung, what makes children create ”something both novel and useful”? Books are a great source of inspiration for kids as they take them into worlds where anything is possible, spurring their creative minds to imagine [...]
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Do you ever wonder what happens to a plastic bottle once it’s empty, drunk, enjoyed to the last drop? If all goes well it goes to a recycling facility and finds a new life as a different object. That’s the happy princess ending. If all goes wrong it goes to the dump or even worse, [...]
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As a mommy blogger who writes about the outdoors, I rarely think about good health as a pre-requisite for the outdoors. The outdoors just is. It’s out there. It’s out there and yet sadly, it’s not accessible to everyone. When I was contacted by SeriousFun Children’s Network to raise awareness about their cause, I was both humbled [...]
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