“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” -Theodore Roosevelt “Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.” […]
The Importance of Family Meals
Numerous research findings have documented the positive impact of having family dinners. Not only do kids get better nutrition, sharing meals as a family has been found to give kids a boost in the classroom, improve language skills in preschoolers, increase communication, and overall promote better adjustment of kids. Some of you may remember in the […]
Building Family Rituals
For more help with Key #4, Sharing Time Together… When you ask adults about positive experiences from their childhood, it is no surprise that many of their answers involve favorite family traditions. One of my fond memories growing up (which will surely date me) is Sunday night dinners, the only night we were allowed to […]
Creating Healthy Habits
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not a single act, but a habit.” -Aristotle I chose this quote to ponder because I want to spend some time thinking about what I repeatedly do and hope you will too. I suggest generating a list for a few days of repeated behaviors and, […]
