This is a video that was entertaining and insightful.  All my kids enjoyed watching it.   https://wellnessworks.bloomfire.com/posts/1956-1-13-ph-foundation-of-wellness/public

My alignment sometimes gets messed up because of having my purse on one side, pregnancies, crossing my legs, poor posture, etc. I have learned a neat stretch to avoid paying for lots of chiropractor visits! I lay on my back on the floor and put my feet and calves on the couch or a chair. I just lay there for a little while and it really helps align everything again. For me, the best place to do it is where we have

Q: Kathy, I have a meal question for you…do you have issues with any of your children not liking what you cook for dinner? If so, how do you handle it? Do you try and remember and make meals everyone likes? Or they just have to eat if they’re hungry, and if not they go hungry? or what do you do? A: I was thinking recently that probably one reason I don’t cook much anymore is that I get so tir

I have had some kids really struggle with this, so I have listed the things that have worked and the things that haven’t.The chiropractor has helped a lot; it was temporary for one of my kids but for the other one, after the treatment she got over it.  Chiropractors are so different — Be sure to have a reputable, very highly-recommended one, and be sure to ask him if he does bedwetting  treatment. Â

~Remember, we are not health care professionals! Please check with your doctor before taking our advice.  Hannah was recently diagnosed with parotiditis, which is only one of many things that could be wrong if your jaw is swollen or sore.~ I (Hannah) have had an ongoing problem with both of my parotid glands (salivary glands) for almost two years now. I have found that there is not very much information about this

Since I wear skirts/dresses a lot, many friends ask me what I do in the winter to stay warm in them.  It is true that dresses can be really cold!  What can you do? We’re not saying that every lady has to wear dresses all the time but that they should do what the Lord is leading their family to do.  If you do choose to wear them, hopefully here are some tips that will help. Hannah:  Under my skirts, I like

Several cheap, healthy veggies start with “C”, and 3 of the 4 are so easy to cut into sticks and dip in ranch dressing:carrots celery cucumbers cabbageOther cheap healthy foods:raw spinach  (Buy it in a bag, and your salad is almost made!) oatmeal apples oranges bananas sometimes pears potatoes eggs zucchini dried beans (cooked of course!) easy homemade oil and vinegar dressingRaw foods are sup

I have a child who is dyslexic and has ADHD. Two books that have really helped me are: Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your Add Child by Jeffrey Freed and Laurie Parsons and Overcoming Dyslexia by Dr. Sally Shaywitz (also for anybody with reading difficulties) Dr. Shaywitz suggests going back over the more difficult phonics concepts such as prefixes, suffixes, dipthongs,

If you are just beginning potty training, see the list at the bottom of the email.  You can do it!! I have used “she” many times in this post because some of the info came from an old email I wrote to a friend who was potty training a girl.  Please switch out the pronouns as needed!  :O) I had trouble training many of my kids in this area, and I feel like it may have been because I was too worried a

Here are some more links on free and cheap stuff: http://coupons.com http://hip2save.com http://frugallivingnw.com I also found out that the register rewards you get from Walgreens expire in about 2 weeks after you get them.  So if you don’t want the free or cheap stuff advertised that week and you need to use your register rewards, just buy milk or epsom salts or something.  (Did you know epsom salts are p