Ever think that tea has tremendous uses except for drinking. A few wet tea bags applied to the sunburned skin will take out the sting when running out of sunscreen. To revitalize tired, achy, or puffy eyes, “soak two tea bags in warm water and place them over your closed eyes for 20 minutes. The […]

Young kids cannot follow some routines simply because of lacking the concept of time. I found a free, well-designed website, Time-for-time.com on which kids would enjoy lots of interactive online games and quizzes about time. I like the info page about types of clocks: Sun Clocks, Water Clocks, Mechanical Clocks, Quartz Clocks, Atomic Clocks and […]

Like many families, I used to buy lots of cleaning products from supermarkets to keep my house clean. Unfortunately their prices are getting more and more expensive. Most importantly, many products are too strong and have toxic effects to trigger skin rashes, dizziness, nausea. Recently I found the magical cleaning effective of baking soda and […]

Ever wonder how much we spend on buying different cleaning products from supermarkets. Some families even spend over hundreds a year. Cynthia Townley Ewer, editor of OrganizedHome.com posts many good ideas for using homemade cleaning products with effective cleaning results and saving lots of money:
Hogwash! Simple recipes using products from your pantry make […]

If your teenagers are music lovers, they are highly at risk of hearing loss when listening to MP3 especially from iPod. Eliot Van Buskirk writes a very good article over at Wirednews.com alarming musicians and music addicts.
A list of tips on how to prevent hearing loss provided on p.2 of his article:
Many people turn their […]

Recently I’ve been spending more time on reading many wonderful blogs, not just reading info on websites as usual. Through the magical tags on Technorati, I found this witty hack by Amy Maxwell to teach baby to use a spoon:
Life gets messy when you begin to teach a baby how to feed herself with a […]

Study shows that happy people have stronger immune systems, earn more income and have better families. They have greater strength to cope with difficulties. Parenting is demanding but rewarding. On our journey of parenting, sometimes stress and frustration will steal away our happiness quietly.
How can we be a happy parent/person? What are the keys?
Robin Lloyd […]

While surfing, I found a very funny website, I Used To Believe, collecting heaps of bizarre ideas that adults thought were true when they were children. Browsing these entries, I just feel it’s an enjoyable way to understand our children’s thinking and reasoning from a different angle. Below are some of my favorite entries:
Children are […]

As there is a wide range of diversity in parents’ and pediatricians’ advice on what, when and how to introduce solid foods to infants, over at Healthy Child, Dr. Parker has an excellent list of sum-up tips for parents to take into account:

Hold off the introducing solid foods until 4-6 months. (Remember that cereal does […]

Children need parents set a boundary to help them grow into a respectful and responsible person. Over at indystar.com Courtenay Edelhart writes that setting boundaries is a teaching process. It’s never too early to set and enforce boundaries. Even can start from the stage of infants, like telling them that “pulling someone’s hair or […]