Children & Family - Wellness

Halloween: Nutrition Safety & Healthy Snacks

Everyone loves a good scare on Halloween, but not regarding the nutrition safety of those little trick-or-treaters. Fortunately, there are many easy things parents and kids can do to stay…

Moms-in-Training: 3 Sanity-Saving Tips for New Mothers

(BPT) – From feeding to diaper changing, new moms and dads are flooded with information to learn and decisions to make for their new bundles of joy. A recent survey…

What Couples Should Know About Prenatal Testing

A pregnant woman sitting on and being embraced by a man is holding small baby shoes

(BPT) – So you’ve decided to take the leap into parenthood. To give yourself the best chance for a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby, there are some important options…

3 Ways to Make Your Summer Backyard Irresistible to Kids

Children playing on a slip-n-slide in a backyard on a bright summer day

(BPT) -When summer arrives do you see even less of your kids than you did during the school year? Too many American children, tweens and teens spend those extra hours…

Hooked on Books: Why Reading to Your Baby is a Must

An asian father reading to a baby on his lap

(BPT) – Four-month old Lily Campos sits on her father’s lap, one chubby hand in her mouth, the other patting the farm animals in the book in front of her….

5 Simple Tips Guaranteed to Transform Your Picky Eater

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(BPT) – Few things cause more parental frustration than trying to get a picky eater to enjoy a well-rounded diet. Whether your child has been picky all his life, or,…

3 Steps Parents Should Take to Protect Baby’s Skin

A very small baby sleeping while holding an adults finger in it's hand

(BPT) – Soft, smooth, fresh and flawless – it’s how parents envision their baby’s skin. Your little one may be born with perfect skin, but protecting that perfection requires work. “The…

A Surprisingly Simple Way to Make Your Own Baby Food

A smoothie in a glass with a paper straw

(BPT) – Want to give your family a jump-start on good nutrition? By introducing your children to a nourishing, whole-food diet at a very young age, you can teach them…

Children and Healthy Habits

Amother hugging onto her two young children while they all laugh and play outdoors at sunset

Teaching children how to have a healthy body is an essential lesson. It is a lesson they need to learn properly from an early age. It is possibly more important…

Top Tips to Outsmart Your Picky Eaters

A child looking a parent holding out a piece of broccoli on a fork with a repulsed look on his face

Do you have picky eaters with bird-like appetites in your family? Even though there’s no official definition, picky eating in children could be defined as an unwillingness to eat enough…