Healthy Holiday Party Food: 10 Tips + 3 Recipes
You don’t have to be a nutritional saint during the holidays. Sneaky substitution tips and delicious-yet-virtuous recipes from chef and healthy eating coach Michele Morris make a big difference with just a few small changes.
Sitting on a Ball Helps Kids Focus and Do Better In School
Get the details on a study, a school and parents of ADHD kids that found sitting on a ball improves focus and helps kids write more clearly. Ball chairs (and balls used as chairs) might be just what the doctor ordered to help fidgety children, especially those with sensory processing disorder or ADHD.
Why Humidify, and Which Type of Humidifier Is Best?
Health experts weigh in on whether you need a cool mist or warm mist humidifier, plus how and why using a humidifier can help prevent and alleviate cold, allergy and sinus symptoms as well as dry skin and nose bleeds.
Kids’ Yoga: Get-Started Guide for Grade-Schoolers, Tweeners & Teens
Advice from kids' yoga teachers on how to get started with the right yoga program for your child. Includes yoga pose examples & benefits for kids at different ages & stages.
6 Rules for Feeding Your Toddler
Mealtime can be quite a frustrating experience. The best advice I can give you, as a mother and a pediatrician, is that children rarely starve themselves. So relax and try to incorporate these 6 rules for feeding your toddler.
Which Kind of Diaper is Best for Both Planet and Parents?
Complete guide to choosing a diaper that's less of a mess for both you and the planet. Costs, pros, cons and green tips on six choices: cloth washed at home, cloth with a service, standard and eco-friendly disposables, hybrids like gDiapers, and sidestepping diapers altogether.
5 Healthy and Delicious Lunches Your Kids Will Love
Most moms today worry about issues like pesticides,and trans fats, and they want to make sure that their child's lunch is healthy and well-balanced. Here's a week's worth of healthy school lunch ideas that will satisfy your child.
Holistic M.D.s to Naturopaths: How to Find the Right Pediatrician
To help you find the right practitioner for your family, here’s a look at some of the most common alternative health care providers—what they offer, how they work and how to find one near you.
5 Ways to Keep Your Kids’ Brains Active All Summer Long
While it’s a necessary break from the routine of school, summer can also be a great time to find fun ways to keep kids from losing what they’ve learned. Parents can strike a balance between learning and fun
Are Sunscreens Safe?
Not all commercial sunscreens are created equal. Some contain harmful chemicals, and others fall short of providing adequate protection. Learn how to compare sunscreens and find out which chemical-free products you can trust.
How to Become a Mindful Parent
I’m constantly seeking the balance between work, family and my inner life. During my search I discovered that life is here to teach us as we go along, and parenting is just one very special course—with no textbook.
Calm Mom: 5 Ways to Be a Present Parent
Composed mothering isn’t out of reach for you, say mindful mothering experts and moms who are borrowing techniques from practices like yoga and meditation to boost their calm-mom powers.
Try these five tips and make being a calm mom look like child’s play.
Goo-Goo, Ga-Ga, Green!
As the mom of a four-month-old, I’ve done a lot of legwork to outfit our baby room in green. Here are some of the top things you can do to help make your nursery, or child’s room, greener.
10 Ways To Nurture Greatness In Your Child
Great kids are emotionally and intellectually healthy people. Great doesn't refer to a specific temperamental quality, such as boldness; nor does it depend on athletic skills or on musical or mathematical or artistic talent. Great kids come in all varieties. And, given the right nurturing and encouragement, all kids can be great kids.
Healthy Halloween! 5 Tips + 3 Recipes
Make this spooky holiday healthier for kids of all ages — and still have a monster of a good time. Try these alternatives to candy for trick-or-treat time, plus three recipes for healthier Halloween treats.
Bug Off: DEET vs. Alternatives
The lowdown on safety and effectiveness of DEET, natural botanical repellents, and other ways to protect your family from mosquitoes, West Nile Virus and Lyme disease.
Schools Offering Healthier Lunches
A run-down of progressive school lunch programs that are offering healthier and greener food choices — and resources to help your school start one.
10 Ways to Get Kids to Eat Healthier
Tips for parents from "Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children" by Ann Cooper and Lisa Holmes.
Sunscreens: More Harm than Good?
Sunscreen ingredients like Padimate-O and Parsol 1789 may actually increase the damaging effects of the sun. Don’t go out without our expert advice and sunscreen buying guide.
Top 10 Superfoods
Too busy to eat as healthfully as you’d like every day? Dr. James Rouse shows you how to get maximum nutritional punch from a few uber-foods that can help fill the gaps.
5 Eco-Friendly Kids’ Activities
Fun, eco-friendly and educational activities to keep kids busy outside and excited to be green.
50 Ways to Reuse Your Yoga or Fitness Mat
Garage-band soundproofing, tree ornaments, crib mobiles, draft dodgers, workbench grippers ... We asked users to tell us about the resourceful, earth-conscious ways they reuse a yoga or fitness mat when it's time for a new one. Add your own ideas!
Play Your Mind a Melody: Why Sound & Music Therapy Works
In a nervous-system phenomenon called "brainwave entrainment," music has been shown to successfully lure your brain into wave patterns to reduce stress, enhance concentration and create restful sleep. An interview with sound therapy expert Dr. Jeffrey Thompson.
Study Shows Yoga Boosts Kids' Grades
A California State University study shows that yoga improves self-esteem, physical health and grade point averages among children.
Yoga boosts attendance, test scores at Accelerated School
Named 2001 School of the Year by Time magazine, this charter school in South Central Los Angeles -- one of the toughest, poorest, most gang-ridden regions in the country -- is earning high marks for its integration of culture and the arts into its curriculum. On the syllabus: yoga classes with Leah Kalish.
Is Your Child a Health Statistic? 4 Scary Facts, 8 Real Solutions
'You're building something from scratch. What is that little person going to be made of?' Jeff Bradstreet, M.D., founder of the International Children Development Resource Center, and other doctors on the alarming stats and how to protect your child from toxins, junk-food evils, couch-potato behavior, antibiotics and other conditions of American lifestyles.
Inspiring Kids to Be Mind-Body Fit: Q&A with Yoga Kids Founder Marsha Wenig
The creator of Yoga Kids offers insight into how and why yoga helps kids become healthy, confident, creative and self-reliant grown-ups.
Inner-City Kids Get Down with Eco-Responsibility at SLI
Seeds of hope and change are planted as inner-city kids from San Francisco's Bret Harte School take a free field trip to learn about renewable energy and how to live greener.
