Wishing you Happy New Year! Here's my quick take on New Year's Resolutions.

Eight glasses of water? It's a bit more complicated than that.

Set a good example for your kids with good hydration habits, and with tasty water for them to drink. 

Please watch this short video, #324 in my series Vibrant Health Through Natural Living, also on my Facebook page by that name, and on my YouTube Channel. 

Even when it is cold outside, we still need to be drinking good water. Central heating is very drying and with less physical activity in the winter we may not realize we still need to keep hydrated. And around the holidays, many of the foods and beverages we consume tend to be dehydrating. So try to stay aware of your thirst and have quality water on hand. 

Here is the product I mention in the video, which we have been using for over 15 years.
https://mynikken.com/?linkid=%23%23%5C%3FW%0A

Why add food supplements to your daily diet? 

Watch this short video for the top ten reasons.

Too Much Light at Night?

Recent studies are confirming that just as we need sunlight for our optimal health, we also need darkness! 

Please watch this short video.

Fifty-Six Years Ago Today...

It was 56 years ago today that...

Social jet lag #ICS 300

Sleep turns out to be more important than ever for some interesting new reasons!

Difficult conversations with kids

It's so important as a parent to be a filter and sounding board for your child.

Less than a hundred fifty years ago, it was pretty easy to absolutely screen your child from scary or confusing information and stories until they were ready to handle them with the necessary skills they had learned at home from their parents' model and guidance.

But the industrial revolution changed that forever. Compulsory schooling, radio, TV, and now internet and wifi are bound to expose our child to stuff at times that are not ideal for their individual development schedule or their particular mood at the time.

So we need to engage in difficult conversations with our children . And we need to have done our homework for ourselves so that we can listen, hear, and reflect and guide their responses to difficult stories.

The current news about the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 events is an excellent opportunity to think about how we as parents can help our child interpret difficult information and scenarios.

And we need to transmit to them our tools for dealing with fear, anger, confusion, and stress., in the context of our own values and philosophy of life.

Here is an article on this topic which I particularly liked.

https://wapo.st/3tAlSFx