Helping Parents Succeed
Tips on how to raise a happy and healthy family.
Let’s talk about something other than parenting.
There are many types of exercise. Namely cardiovascular, strength, and flexibility.
The least I used to like is flexibility.
Why?
Because being a macho man that I am, flexibility equals limberness and sissyness. At the end of the day, I don’t want to look everything but wimpy.
Being muscular and having excellent stamina were always my exercise goals.
Not anymore. [Read more…]
We entrusted food companies to produce foods and hopefully safeguard our health.
But more often than not, they have failed us… miserably.
In the latest event, Trader Joe’s has recalled its peanut butt-er jam.
And according to the CDC, it’s said that the tainted peanut butt-er is linked to Salmonella poisoning that caused 30 people ill in 19 states in the US.
Incidents like this make us sick as these companies have breached the trust we have given to them.
Sad but true, this is not a US only issue, it affects every country.
To prevent this from happening, here’s what you can do. [Read more…]
As I grow older, I like to remove things from my life instead of accumulating them.
Cooking included.
I try to make it as simple as possible. To make me look good, I’ll call it simplicity cooking.
But in actual fact, I am just being plain lazy:
I just want to cook up a healthy meal in the shortest time possible.
Especially lunch on school days.
While I was trying to do so, I broke some of the pre-conceived notions. [Read more…]
If you remember our encounter with HFMD, you’ll pray hard that it won’t happen again.
Hand, foot, and mouth disease is not funny when it strikes your child.
Last Saturday, K was downed with fever in the evening. It subsided the next day but he suffered from sore throat after which.
The symptoms were the same as HFMD’s initial symptoms – minus the blisters on the hands and the feet.
“Oh no, not again! Could it be HFMD?” I thought. [Read more…]
Don’t get me wrong, I am not looking down on home-cooked food.
(Why should I? I am one who highly promotes it.)
I think the effort of parents preparing food at home is commendable.
It’s a lot of work and thinking and trying and making mistakes.
There are many reasons why parents cook at home.
One of them is to save money.
Secondly, it might be health reason.
I am more of the latter.
But wait… [Read more…]