The brain is like a muscle — you use it or lose it. During
summer vacation is your child “losing it”?
Picture two different athletes. Athlete A is on a schedule where
she trains ten months and then takes two months off. Athlete B
trains year round. When Athlete A goes back to training after
her two months of being […]

What is wrong with the world today, we have war torn countries battling it out against each other and the shocking sad part about it all is these people are neighbors. Then we have terrorism where we are forced to suspect everyone or anyone around us. Talk of paranoia. Muggings and murders now make the […]

As your children enjoy their warm-weather playtime outdoors, try
these tips to keep them safe and organized.
1. Place a large plastic container on your back porch or deck.
Make sure it’s big enough to hold all their outdoor toys. Insist
on a daily clean-up time.
2. Fill a cooler with ice, drinks, snacks and wipes so kids
won’t need to […]

Many times at auctions, or estate sales, a box of books will
turn up a real treasure, like a scrapbook that was kept by
someone in their youth and sometimes through their adulthood.
The book could be 50 or 60 years old, and a source of great fun
to look at the pictures, news clippings, and personal mementoes.
The hobby […]

Do you struggle to get your child to bed at night? We sure did
with our daughter. She would refuse to go to sleep in her bed
and wanted to hang out with us until we were ready for bed and
of course then she would want to sleep in Mama’s and Daddy’s
bed.
That all changed when we […]

Over two centuries have passed since Americans and British
raised their guns toward each other in war. We drove the Red
Coats out of our land but we kept them in our hearts in many
ways. After all, surpassing the Irish, French and Italians, the
largest group of immigrants in this country is still the
British. Our ancestry could not […]