Category Archives for "Children"
Tips on How to Savor Summer Memories
KSL TVââ?¬â??Studio 5 If your family is in the traditional school system where kids are home for the summer, you have approximately 60 days, 18 hours and 30 minutes left before schools starts. But there is still time left to create summer memories that will last a lifetime.
Continue readingThe Importance of Work/Life Balance for Fathers
KSL TVââ?¬â??Studio 5 Contrary to a popular belief, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day were NOT established to support the greeting card industry In the early 1900’s, following the campaign to make Mother’s Day a holiday, Sonora Dodd wanted to honor her widowed father who raised Sonora and her five siblings, including an infant son, following […]
Continue readingNavigating the grief of losing a child
Salt Lake Tribune What has helped you in grieving the death of an adult son or daughter? Whether I was alone in my living room listening to the evening news, or behind the microphone on AM 820 trying to speak the same words myself, it mattered not; I cried over the loss of another fallen […]
Continue readingHow to model healthy eating to children
Salt Lake Tribune How do we protect our children from eating disorders? Although I was fairly young, I still remember that delicious plate of fresh-baked cookies presented by my precious grandmother as she asked, “Elizabeth, would you like one?” Before I could answer and dive in for a taste of heaven, someone named “Mother” promptly […]
Continue readingStepmothers express the difficulties they face
Salt Lake Tribune Qualified, bona fide stepmothers stepped up to answer last week’s question: Can stepmothers ever step over the hurdles of their titles? I may be the psychologist, but here are the experts. Lynn Nicholas joined the establishment of her husband and his three teenagers when she was a spry and experienced 60-year-old. But, […]
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