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BOW “Safe Snack” List
Back in early November, I posted on Facebook this photo of a preschool “safe snack” list. I suggested that perhaps it was time to re-think our idea of “safe”. That post generated a number of comments,...
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Junior Health Coaches Help Spread The Word!
I had the honor of working with another group of very bright girls before the holidays. I got a group hug at the end of my time with them. In what other job do you get group hugs once you finish a...
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Vitamins That Don’t Stack Up
Today I posted on Facebook about children’s multi-vitamins. The brand I was checking had some nasty ingredients. The more I read through them, the more angered I became. Not much gets me upset these...
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Gotta Love These Brownies!
You know you have the right gig when you get to play, laugh, snack, and stretch on the job. That’s what I did with this great group of junior girl scouts this week, who then became my junior health...
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Wellness Wizards Go Green!
Last week I made my final presentation with the 4th grade Wellness Wizards. For those of you who’ve been following my visits, you know that this group began as an initiative of two teachers- Tracy...
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3 Things I Do When My Son Has A Cold
It’s bound to happen, no matter how many nutrients we pump into the bodies of our kiddos. They will catch colds. That’s not a bad thing. Every time they contract a virus, memory cells develop...
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How One Mom Changed The Rules
A friend posted this on Facebook a few weeks ago. Since I took away the iPad from H a month ago the boys’ creativity has flourished. It’s so nice to see them playing with their toys and balls and...
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Wellness Wizards: To Poop or Not to Poop or To Poop Like a Deer
Last week I mentioned that while other coaches may give pep talks, I relish in the poop talks. Ew. Why? Because the almighty BM is pretty darn important and a whole lot of people are not making it to...
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Fed Up With Fake Food: Review of New Documentary
Last night I drove to Cambridge with like-minded parent friends and our kiddos. We’d both read and heard about the latest documentary, Fed Up, and how powerful it was. We weren’t disappointed. Leave it...
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Rex, Recipes, and Red Dye #40
Rex is 9. He likes to work on his Rainbow Loom, he wore an inflatable sumo wrestler costume for Halloween, and he loves hockey probably as much as he loves Doritos. But something’s been changing in...
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