Making Your Home the Best It Can Be

Image Source No matter what kind of home you live in – an apartment, a bungalow, a semi-detached, a townhouse, a detached – chances are it’s the biggest investment you’ve made in your lifetime and you want to make the absolute most of it. Not only do you want to make sure that it retains value or increases in value, but you’re going to want to make sure that it’s actually a nice place to live. After all, your home is your haven! It’s your personal space. You can make it your own. It’s where you spend time relaxing after a long day at work. It’s where you entertain your friends and family. It’s where you’re going to spend a whole lot of time. Now,…

Handling Those Everyday Home Tasks That Can Really Annoy You

Handling Those Everyday Home Tasks That Can Really Annoy You

Owning or renting a place to live is something we all dream of when we reach adulthood; we want to be able to stand on our own two feet and have that independence that being aged 18 and over promises us! However, having a place to yourself means a lot of work needs to be done, and usually, on a daily basis. After all, you don’t want to be living in a pigsty, and you definitely don’t want to be losing the TV remote every 5 minutes!  Which is why we can get so annoyed with the general idea of housework. We all have chores to get through, and some of us handle them better than others, but when you’ve already got a thousand other…

A meltdown is common place when it comes to raising an autistic child. Here are 5 calming strategies for meltdowns to try.
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5 Tried and True Autism Meltdown Strategies

As a parent of an autistic individual, meltdowns are something that we deal with. These calming strategies for autism meltdowns are ones that we have used time and time again in our household. It’s just part of life, you get used to it and develop autism meltdown strategies to help. These calming strategies have helped our family in the past and I hope that they will help your family as well. Eventually, who knows, you may even get to a point where you’re prepared enough that you can intervene with a meltdown before it becomes full blown. It’s all about timing and getting to know your child’s needs. With Sweet B there are certain things that just work and here are 5 calming strategies for…

3 Meaningful Ways to Teach Girls to Love Themselves

3 Meaningful Ways to Teach Girls to Love Themselves

Do you have a daughter? I might finally be relenting that raising a daughter is more difficult than raising a son. Or maybe it’s because my youngest daughter just so happens to be strong-willed like her mom. Whatever the case, raising daughters is unique. I look back on my own childhood, mostly with fond memories. And then I hit puberty and a lot of things change. My self-esteem tanked. So in hopes of preventing that with my own daughter, here are 3 meaningful ways to teach girls to love themselves. Because, as the old saying goes, you have to learn to love yourself before you can love anyone else. Self-confidence and self-esteem is often difficult for girls. Not just in terms of body image, but…

How to Use Time Management to Increase Your Productivity

How to Use Time Management to Increase Your Productivity

Time management and productivity really do go hand-in-hand. And it’s because I have systems in place that I’m able to be more productive. Granted, sometimes things still get away from me but I’m improving. And that’s always important. Another key? Finding the small wins. Sure, every day may not have a BIG success and that’s okay. As long as I can still glean something positive, it’s a win. For example, creating and sticking to a new time block based work schedule? Huge win. But, I also had to grant myself the grace to adjust the schedule. How to Increase Productivity as an Autistic Woman without the Burnout   Many people want to increase their productivity, whether they are an employee, an employer, an entrepreneur, or…

Household Items That May Be Bad For You

Over the last twenty years, it seems that the world has suddenly started to advance at brand new rates. With this advancement, we have seen incredible moves forward in technology and most importantly, medicine and research. Today we are going to be looking at the beauty behind some of this research and how it now shows that some of the items we use every day, may actually be doing us more harm than good. Image Credit – Pexels CC0 Licence Non-Stick Pans One of the staples of most homes is the glory of non-stick pots and pans. Almost every home you can think of has at least one and let’s be honest, who wouldn’t have them, they are incredibly easy to keep clean. While they…