Blog

Top 5 Times You Might be Dehydrated & Not Even Know it!

Top 5 Times You Might be Dehydrated & Not Even Know it!

Have you ever been having a really fun day with your kids and slowly they get grumpy and dazed.  You tell yourself they must be hungry or tired, so you feed them, get them to drink something and it doesn’t help.  It could be because they are low on electrolytes.  Those pesky little salts that ...

Electrolytes - What Are They?

Electrolytes - What Are They?

I get a lot of questions from people: “should I take electrolytes?”, “what are electrolytes?” and “where do I get them?”  Well, at the risk of getting too technical, electrolytes are essentially minerals and fluids in your body that affect how your body works in many ways, su...

What your child really wants you to know

What your child really wants you to know

If you're anything like me, you often wonder what goes on in the mind of your children on a day-to-day basis.

...all the crazy, quirky, cute and insightful thoughts they must have...

What about the things that worry them, or cause them to be lonely? What do...

A Dad's Promise

A Dad's Promise

She looked up at me with big blue eyes, changing back and forth from a small smiling squint to a wild look of amazement at the sounds I was producing. I was making her day.

Her nose was starting to wrinkle and her smile grew until a little baby giggle came out. Her...

7 Easy Ways to Help Your Child Fend Off the Flu

7 Easy Ways to Help Your Child Fend Off the Flu

Every parent knows that from September to June your household transforms into a walking petri dish that eventually becomes laden with snotty tissues and cough syrup. This leaves it up to you to nurse your family back to health -- but not without also falling sick yourself...

Because you have better things to do.

Because you have better things to do.

You know the drill.

Step One:

Your child is sick. Yet somehow still has the capacity to fight you with every ounce of strength that they have left, refusing to take their medication.

Step Two:

You've tried everything under ...