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Kissing It Better Really Works!

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Pucker up… kissing it better really works: Saliva found to have properties that help speed up the healing process

Is there anything worse than seeing your child fall down and hurt themselves? It just cuts through your heart to see them hurting, even if it’s just a little scrape. Just about any parent’s first reaction is to run over and kiss it better. That always seems to help stop the crying, acting as a loving kind of placebo effect. Well – good news, it is not just a gesture of love to make your little one feel better.

Research is showing that saliva has properties that can actually advance recovery, which is why cuts in the mouth heal quicker. Makes perfect sense right? Professor Vicente Torres, of the University of Chile, states “These findings open new alternatives to better understand the biology underlying the differences between oral and skin wound healing. We believe the study could help the design of better approaches to improve wound healing in tissues other than the mouth.”

Professor Torres uses all sorts of cool scientific medical jargon such as histatin -1 and a process known medically as angiogenesis. What does that mean you ask? I don’t know, I’m not a scientist, but I do know that if it’s going to make my little one feel better and heal quicker…I’m all for kissing it and making it better.

To read the entire article from Dailymail.com, CLICK HERE! 

 

 

How to Help Your ‘Short’ Kid Through Tricky Situations

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Being a parent is full of experiences when helping your kid through tough times is important to them, and will stick with them later in their adult years. They may not seem like such tough times to an adult, but to a kid they can be pretty tough. One of the toughest things to be a kid is not being same size and stature of most of the other kids. If you haven’t been though that, it can be a hard thing to go through. Kids who are smaller than most other kids their age usually have some unique challenges. They will suffer insensitive comments, self-esteem issues, but luckily your kid has you to help her through it all.

This can be especially challenging for boys. From the time we start hitting the school playgrounds, boys are “supposed” to be the big tough guys. I can speak from experience as I am not a big guy at 5” 8″ tall. I certainly had my challenges. Unfortunately I wasn’t aware that I was shorter and skinnier than most of the other boys my age until my father pointed it out so graciously. After that the self-esteem issues came flooding in. As much as I love my father, I will never forget him saying to me “You’re not a big guy…you better watch out for the normal size boys.” You don’t want to say comments to your kids like that, as you can see…it sticks with kids. This supportive parent says….”I took daily injections of growth hormone from ages 6 through 13. I’m still a really short guy. I’m 5’2″,” explains Dr. Michael Paff, a school psychologist. “And both my kids are short, and one takes growth hormone.” For himself, Paff finds gentle humor helps a lot, but when it comes to his children, he says it’s important for your kids to feel you stood up for them.”

Support is so important when fostering your child. Try to avoid using the word “normal” around your kid. It’s a fact of life, some people are tall, some are short, and some are in the middle. Some are built like a brick wall, others are built thin. We’re all different and that’s what makes us who we are and unique.

To read more about how you can help support your smaller child. Check out this article from Cafe Moms by

CLICKING HERE. 

 

1 Mom Perfectly Sums Up What Sex Right After Giving Birth Is Actually Like

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This is probably the best blogger video I have ever seen. I couldn’t stop laughing, at the same I learned a lot from this mom who does not seem to have any problems letting us know what she knows about having sex soon after birth.

Rionna O’Connor’s video blog is getting a lot of attention on the web. Sex right after giving birth is a big topic that some people find uncomfortable talking about, not O’Connor, but some people. O’Connor said in one part of the video… “If my vagina was a motorway, there would have been a sign up saying ‘NO THROUGH ROAD.’ If it was a shop, there would have been a sign up going ‘CLOSED.'” Talk about summing it up. She talks about why she stated these things in as you watch her video.

To view the video at PopSugar.com…CLICK HERE! 

How Hot Is Too Hot to Be Outside With Your Kids?

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Go play outside! Ahhhh….music to every mothers ears. They may be home from school for three months, but summer is the time when you get have a cleaner house because the kids can spend all day playing outside. That’s great but parents need to be aware of unsafe temperatures and condition before sending the little one’s out to play.

Kids don’t just sit under a shady tree and take it easy. They run, jump, roll around, and run some more. Days when it’s too hot can, and probably will have some awful results for your children. Things like dehydration and heat illnesses, including heat cramps, exhaustion, and worst of all stroke. Yes…children can suffer strokes just like the rest of us. Believe it or not, because of their body compositions, kids are at even greater risk for these scary side effects than adults.

Dehydration:

The number one overlooked issue with children in the heat is dehydration. Send them outside previously hydrated. Don’t wait until they are thirsty, by then the body is already beginning to dehydrate. Set a timer while they are playing. Whenever the timer goes off, time to drink whether they are thirsty or not. The American Academy of Pediatrics says a good-size drink for a child is five ounces of water for a child weighing 88 pounds and nine ounces for a teen weighing 132 pounds. Keep those kids nice and juicy!

Heat Illness:

Signs of heat illness can include painful cramps of the stomach muscles, arms, or legs. Heat exhaustion almost always starts with dizziness and nausea, but can lead to vomiting, headaches, weakness, muscle pain, and sometimes even unconsciousness. Heat stroke occurs usually at a temperature of 104 degrees or higher, nausea, vomiting, seizures and dehydration. Also be aware for a lack of sweating, shortness of breath, and unconsciousness which can lead to coma.

If your child is experiencing any of these symptoms, get them out of the sun into a cool, comfortable place immediately. Start SLOWLY pumping them full of of cool fluids and take off any excess layers of clothing or bulky equipment. My mother used to put cool, wet cloths on our heads or overheated skin. If your kids are cramping gentle stretching for the sore muscles can help. If your child has heat exhaustion, do not allow them back in the hot sun on the same day. Monitor your child, and if you don’t see improvement, see a doctor right away. If you’re concerned your child is suffering from heat stroke, do not hesitate to call 911, as they will require immediate medical attention before it gets worse.

Let’s try to avoid all of this ugliness though. Have a safe summer and follow all of these tips to ensure you memories of summer are good ones, not bad ones.

To see the entire article from Popsugar Click HERE! 

Here’s a Simple Trick to Make Your Kids Eat More Vegetables

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Researchers at Stanford used different labels for vegetables in the cafeteria. And when they called them things like “rich, buttery, roasted SWEET corn,” 25% more students ate it, and also took much bigger portions.

A new study figured out a pretty simple way to trick your kids into eating more vegetables without complaining the whole time. Just jazz up the NAME a little bit . . .

Researchers at Stanford recently spent about a month changing up the signs next to vegetables in the cafeteria. And they monitored how many students ate each vegetable when they called it different things.

They tried boring labels, like “corn” and “green beans.” They also tried things like “vitamin-rich corn” and “reduced-sodium corn.” It didn’t make a huge difference though.

But when they used labels like “rich, buttery, roasted SWEET corn,” 25% more students ate it . . . and the servings they took were 23% bigger.

The recipes never changed. The “rich, buttery” corn was exactly the same as when they just called it “corn.” And it worked the same way with other vegetables too.

So if you make something your kids hate like spinach, try calling it “sweet spinach” and see what happens. With young kids, you can have a little more fun with it if you want, and call it something like “Mom’s Sizzlin’ Sweet Spinach.”

To read more…CLICK HERE! 

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