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Releasing My Mom Guilt: My Need to Stop Comparing My Daughters

After my neurotypical daughter was born, I couldn’t avoid falling into the comparison trap– not comparing her to other children, but to her older sister who just so happens to be autistic. This was unfair to both of them but it happened none the less. I’m not perfect. In fact, there are a few ways that I’ve become quite the failure though I’m also doing my best to rectify that. I have plenty of bad habits, and I’m also doing whatever I can to overcome that. But there’s still one that I can’t seem to shake and I wonder if I ever will be able to. I say this because it involves my daughters who are 12 years apart in age but so similar in…

Home Management Tips

How to Create a Healthier Home Environment and a Healthier World

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A healthier home environment is entirely possible without breaking your budget. And with a healthier home environment, you can extend those steps and drive to creating a healthier world. If we all work together, a healthier earth is achievable. With thanks to OBRIST C-Transformer for sponsoring this conversation, we are also happy to share 23 tips for how to create a healthier home environment and a healthier world. A healthy home environment is more than one that is germ free. It actually embraces everything, from the air quality in your home to safety and security. From maintaining your furnace to ensuring that you’re using toxin-free products, creating a healthy home environment encompasses many systems. Key Components of a Healthy Home The systems that help create…

Family Life

How to Keep Busy Kids Hydrated and Keep them Playing Outdoors

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Disclaimer: This post was sponsored by BODYARMOR. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Playing outdoors is serious business for kids. It’s something that we encourage and as often as possible when the weather permits. But, the problem with being outdoors? Dehydration. So how do we make sure busy kids are staying hydrated? When we are laughing and playing in the sun we don’t think of much else. But, even if you don’t think about anything else, remember that keeping up your fluid intake is important. Learn to stay hydrated during the hot months of the year. The heat of the sun feels good on your skin. The summer months are a time to get outdoors and breathe the fresh air and have a bit…

Family Life

Why Your Teenager Still Needs an Annual Check Up (even if they’re always healthy)

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This post was sponsored by Unity Consortium as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central and all opinions expressed in my post are my own. Vaccines have come a long way since 1022 A.D., when a Buddhist nun fashioned what many consider the precursor to vaccines in an effort to fight smallpox. Since then, vaccines have stopped smallpox virus, are close to eradicating the polio virus and have slowed numerous other disease-causing microbes. We all know that in order to prevent serious illnesses from affecting our children we must take them to the doctor at predetermined periods for vaccination. Parents need to know when it is the most indicated moment for such a shot and against which disease is their child protected. And while…

Working at Home

Turn Seasonal Work into Permanent Work

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I shared briefly about how stay at home moms can re-enter or enter the work force with seasonal work, but what if you want to turn seasonal work into permanent work? For that matter, if you’re feeling weary about looking for seasonal work, where do you start? How do you convince this potential employee that they should choose you- no matter what. Today, I want to share some tips for landing that seasonal position and I’ll also talk about how you can potentially turn that seasonal position into a permanent position. Whether you go full or part time is obviously up to you and your employer, but at least you’ll have that window of opportunity open to you. 7 Tips for Finding Seasonal Work Strategize…

Family Friendly Holidays

How to Assemble Candy Free Halloween Treat Bags

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When it comes to preparing for Halloween, I tend to go overboard and plan in advance. We don’t get a lot of trick-or-treaters in our small neighborhood, so I want to make it worth their while. And well, I’ll admit, sometimes I buy candy I like because I know we’ll have plenty left! This year, however, I wanted to try something different. In addition to purchasing gluten-free candy, I’m also going to make candy free Halloween treat bags just in case. With thanks to Oriental Trading for supplying us with everything that we need; I’m happy to share our process. While Halloween has never been one of those holidays that I go all out for in terms of decorating, I do want to spread the…