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Creating An Eco-Friendly Home For Your Family

Creating a beautiful home for your family is an ongoing project, you’ll want to get the interior design work right, create a safe place, and to keep your home eco-friendly. With these top ideas creating an eco-friendly home needn’t be a chore. pexels 1. Choose eco-fabrics When we are decorating our homes, we need to pick out plenty of fabrics. From sofas to curtains, cushions and tablecloths, be sure to choose fabrics that are eco-friendly. A few options include: Soy cashmere: Soy fabric is made using soybean hulls; these hulls would otherwise go to waste in food production. Soy plants have minimal impact on the environment during the growing process, and they are also compostable. Soy cashmere is well regarded for its UV resistance and antibacterial properties. Bamboo: Bamboo absorbs…

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August 12, 2020

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How to Maintain a Stunning Garden as a Busy Parent

As a busy parent, it’s a win if you can keep the kitchen clean for more than five seconds. Other areas of the home, like the garden, just seem to take a back seat more often than not. That is such a big mistake. Not because it’s a chore, you need to check off on your list, but because your garden is an oasis of wellness. Getting out there and yes, even working to maintain it does wonders towards your wellbeing and mental health. Make it your downtime hobby, and get your family involved. With this excellent guide, you’ll be able to do it all, no matter how busy you are as a working parent or full-time caretaker. Photo by Jill Wellington on Pexels.com Get Your Children Involved If you…

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August 2, 2020

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Sleeping Tips for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Raising a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) poses many unique challenges for you as a parent. Sleeping Tips for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) One of the most commonly affected areas involves sleep. Good sleep during pregnancy is certainly important, but so too is adequate rest postpartum and into childhood for both you and your child. As your child ages, lost sleep usually results from their inability to sleep. If they can’t fall asleep, have bad dreams, or wake up frequently, then they may wake you up directly or indirectly through the noise they make. Making matters worse, they’ll suffer from the effects of poor sleep. Losing even a few hours of sleep is enough to cause negative effects on their mood, energy, and cognitive skills, especially for…

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July 25, 2020

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My personal struggle with #depression

I mentioned yesterday that depression is becoming more of a struggle for me lately. Monday was pretty rough for me but yesterday was a little better. It's so hard to describe what this is like, especially if you've never experienced depression before. I can say that it impacts pretty much every aspect of my life and that motivating myself to do anything is pretty fucking difficult. It's not laziness at all and it fucking drives me crazy when people assume that. It's more like thinking about doing anything is so overwhelming that it's crippling. I know that's hard to understand. There are times that I get stuck inside my own head and that's not always the most friendly place for me to spend time. When I'm in my head, I…

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July 15, 2020

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4 Tips to Keep Your Family Healthy

4 Tips to Keep Your Family Healthy There are many jobs that you are going to need to take on as a parent. Some are harder than others, but they all need to combine to help you and your family stay safe, secure, healthy, and happy. It may sound like an impossible job, but the truth is that, once you get into a good routine, things will start to fall into place and come much more naturally. It’s getting into that all-important routine that is the important part, and that can be hard, especially if you have other commitments. One of the things that you must always make time for, but which, when you actually look more closely into it, is something that can do everything we have mentioned above,…

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July 15, 2020

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5 Ways To Manage Chronic Pain

Pain is an indicator given to you from your central nervous system to let you know that there is something wrong. Pain lets you know that you need to move away from a fire or you might get burnt. Without pain, you would put yourself in harmful situations all of the time. Most pain goes away in time. Your body heals and you gradually feel better. But what if that pain doesn’t go away? If you are feeling pain much of the time and it doesn’t ever naturally go, then you have chronic pain. Image Credit Pixabay.com License CC0 There can be all kinds of chronic pain, and it is essential that you seek medical treatment for the cause of the pain. However, in the meantime, you will still need…

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July 13, 2020

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Home Entertainment For Kids

Home Entertainment For Kids When parents think about entertaining their children, places like the cinema and amusement parks might be the first things that spring to mind. However, there are plenty of activities that you can do at home which are sure to delight your children. Let’s look at some of the best options that you might want to explore. Set Up A Home Movie Night One of the best ways to keep your children entertained is by putting on their favorite films. It’s also really easy to set up a home movie night. For example, you’ll often be able to get some popcorn which you can cook in the microwave. If you want to, you can even purchase a projector, so you’ll be able to watch the movie under…

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July 10, 2020

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5 Ways to Give Your Senior Loved One a Happy Life

Dealing with aging parents can be tough on both ends. Your senior parents are grappling with extreme life changes that might change their behavior and affect their moods. If you want to help your senior parents live out the rest of their days as happy, healthy adults, there are a few things you need to do to make sure that happens. Here are five ways to give your senior loved one a happy life. 1. Help Them Accept That Things Have Changed Change isn't easy for any of us, but seniors dealing with transitioning into the later stages of life might find it especially difficult. They might no longer be able to be as independent as they once were and take care of simple tasks like going grocery shopping or…

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June 18, 2020