Garden: the easiest way your family can save money, eat healthier, help the environment

If you have a yard, start a garden. The financial benefits of gardening are extensive, the health benefits are obvious, and the environmental benefits are substantial. You don’t need a huge garden, and your family can help out and bond through the care of it. Here’s a list of ways to maximize the benefits of [...]

Nineteen tips for how to save money by cooking up these simple, natural, healthy, quick recipes for the family

Alright, while reading 573 Ways to Save Money by Peter Sander and Jennifer Sander, I found a few super simple recipes I really liked. They use a few real ingredients, and are cheaper than their pre-made or packaged counterparts at the supermarket with mystery chemicals and preservatives. Save money, cook with healthier ingredients and get creative [...]

Television: the new parent for our children.

While lounging on the beach at Ocean City, MD, a woman vacationing with her family mentioned she had been on the beach every day while her husband and two sons spent the time inside the water-front hotel room on the boardwalk (a premium location) playing video games and sleeping. Anyone else find that odd? You pay [...]

Make 8 of your own natural cleaning products to save money and get green

The following advice will help me: save money? use natural products in my home? eliminate toxins from my life? be green and environmentally conscious? Sold! I wanted to share them with you: .

Health, parenting, and social responsibility: Read “10 Bad Eating Habits Parents Often Teach their Kids” by Suzanne Cullen

I found a must-read article about the bad eating habits that parents pass on to their children. It addresses the responsibility of adults to be good influences on children, issues of health, and good daily habits. Suzanne Cullen’s blog at AuPair.org features helpful articles about parenting and being responsible when influencing children. After all, children are our [...]

Television is evil and it’s rotting your brain

I stand firm for a movement against screen-run lives. Technology is taking over my life. In my goals, I noted that “tv=evil.” Let’s extend that to all screens: phones, video games, computers, tablets, iPods. (Yes, I understand the irony of blogging this information.) Reasons to war against excessive media use: You sleep best when it’s [...]