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Category: Holiday
How to handle nutrition during the busy holidays.
Eating Around the Holidays
Dreading the holidays because of the food? Or maybe you’ve been following a healthy diet and worried the holidays will disrupt your new lifestyle. Below are helpful tips about how to eat, but not feel stuffed, around the holidays. 1. Maintain Your Weight – Holidays are a time to enjoy. It is hard enough to…
Holiday Traditions
Having routines for daily tasks is beneficial for young children. Routines help children feel safe, secure, and in control of their environment. It also helps them to behave because they understand what is happening and can predict what will happen next. Family traditions, on the other hand, don’t necessarily happen daily but are equally important.…
Happy New Year!!!
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Enjoying Holidays with Diabetes
The holiday season is a wonderful time to spend with friends and family. The focus on food can make living with diabetes stressful. You can enjoy your holiday favorite foods by focusing on balanced meals and checking blood sugars regularly. Let’s talk about six healthy tips for individuals living with diabetes! Have Veggie Fun! Vegetables…
Hassle-Free Holidays
Folks are stringing lights, humming holiday songs, shopping for gifts, and making plans for festive family gatherings. Everyone is full of anticipation and good cheer as the holidays approach – everyone except your pre-teen, that is. Look who’s balking! Many pre-teens are not looking forward to the holidays. Everything is dumb – the preparations, the…
Benefits of Knitting and Crafting for Parents and Children
The holidays are coming! I always get excited knowing that I will be busy knitting and crafting—sometimes all the way until Christmas Eve. I love knitting and find time to knit throughout the year. However, the holidays bring a renewed burst of creativity that encourages me to find projects that challenge me, while at the…
Coping with Grief During Holidays and Special Occasions
Holidays and special occasions can be full of joy and excitement, but also times of emotional pain, especially if you are grieving the loss of a loved one. While accepting loss may become easier over time, loss is something we carry with us forever. There is pressure to be joyful at celebrations, so managing grief…
It’s February – Let’s Talk about that New Year’s Resolution!
Did you create a New Year’s resolution for 2022? Many of us start with a lot of enthusiasm to make big changes to our lifestyle. “I’m going to eat healthy!” “I’m going to exercise!” “I’m going to work harder to get a promotion!” Maybe one or more of these sound familiar to you. As the…
Celebrating African American History Month
In 1976, Americans celebrated the first African American History Month. Before that we credit Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard graduate trained in history, with conceiving and announcing the first Negro History Week in 1925. Woodson hoped to raise awareness of the many contributions of African Americans to our civilization. Today, Black History Month as it…