Archive - February 2019

My husband drank a gallon of it a day during his teenage growth spurts. I drank it three meals a day (and never missed Chocolate Milk Wednesdays at school). My son can drink a big carton of Fairlife chocolate milk in no time flat. But do our kids really need to drink milk? Milk does have the calcium that children and adolescents need for developing strong bones, and is fortified with the vitamin D to get that calcium where it needs to go. On the other hand, parents worry about the hormones milk may contain and read labels carefully for…

“So our teacher asked us, ‘What is something others may not know about you?’” my older son told me. He, at nearly fourteen, doesn’t burst forth about his day at shared school, but drips information over the rest of the week. We had just finished our homeschool day, and he was ready to share. My son is not the “sharing” type, so I was more than curious how he handled this request. “What did you tell your class?” “I told them I was made in a lab.” Talk about a big reveal. I’m sure he had his beginnings on the…

Decision making is crucial because the decisions your children make dictate the path that their lives take. They need to judge the risks and rewards of their decisions in the short run and the long term. ~Psychologist Jim Taylor, Ph.D. The car shirt or the train shirt? Pasta or stir fry? Inside or out? (The last question uttered by moms the world over who are sick and tired of doors slamming and flies whizzing into the house.) Fortunately, whether to involve our children in making decisions is one decision we as parents don’t have to make because the answer is…