We all love the holiday season, but wonder how can we increase the joy and decrease the stress that comes hand in hand with it? Each year, we hope to pull off the perfect holiday with less spending, less craziness, less running around, and less pressure. The main question is how do you enjoy more of the holiday while doing less? How do you keep the holidays happy even if you have to spend it away from some of your loved ones?
Topics: Family Matters, stress, US Family Health Plan, Holidays
The Center for Science in the Public Interest reports that today’s school meals include more fruits and vegetables, more whole grains, low-fat instead of high-fat milk, and sensible limits on calories, unhealthy fats, and salt. This is because nutritional standards have been revamped to ensure better nutrition for all of the 31 million children attending school in this country today.
Topics: Healthy Living, Family Matters
As parents, we often minimize the importance of teen stress and simply attribute it to over-active hormones, the search for popularity and peer pressure. However, recent studies have shown that teenagers actually do have a lot on their minds, even if parents only perceive their stress as “melodrama”. The fact is, many teens are stressed, maybe as much so or more than their parents.
Topics: Healthy Living, Education, Family Matters
