Trampoline Exercise Tips
A trampoline workout is a simple, low-impact way to get some cardiovascular exercise. Choose a trampoline model that works well for your situation. For example, if you want to work out inside your home, a…
Family & Kids
So, you want your kids to exercise? Get a trampoline.
They never have to know it’s good for them! When parents say, “it’s good for you,” kids usually run the other way. To them, it’s good for you means that it’s no fun, boring, or worst…
Trampoline Exercise – Miraculous
By fay roberts So you’ve had your morning jog? Got your heart rate up? Paid your dues at the Gym? Worked your biceps, your quads and abdominals? But did you exercise your cells? Did you give…
Trampoline
A trampoline is a device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs. People bounce on trampolines for recreational and competitive purposes. The fabric on which…
Halloween Horror Nights: Universal to live stream 2 scare zones Friday
Universal Orlando, Florida will live-stream scenes from two scare zones at Halloween Horror Nights for one hour Friday evening. Folks not wanting to face Fear in person at the theme park can go to www.halloweenhorrornights.com/orlando/news_index.html…
13 tips to keep you safe on Halloween
By Linda Shrieves Halloween can be a frightening holiday, but safety experts want it to be safe — for you and your trick-or-treaters. Here are 13 lucky tips from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration,…
Serving Up Vegetables With Eggs
By TARA PARKER-POPE Egg dishes can be a great way to serve up more vegetables at dinner time, explains Martha Rose Shulman in this week’s Recipes for Health. Like omelets and frittatas, scrambled eggs make a…
Small Steps: A Good-Health Guide
By TARA PARKER-POPE PARENTING has never been an easy job, but mothers and fathers today face challenges in raising their children that their own parents may never have had to address. While children have always been…
Overweight – The Limits of Willpower
By MARILYNN LARKIN Dr. Barry E. Levin, a neurologist at New Jersey Medical School, has been investigating the brain’s role in obesity for more than 20 years. His recent findings suggest that exercise early in life…
Apple iPad (64GB)
Reviewed by Donald Bell The Apple iPad is an unprecedented device. It doesn’t shoot rainbows or make puppies, but this roughly 8×10-inch tablet computer melds your laptop, smartphone, gaming console, and iPod into a single,…
Teach Kids About the Reasons Behind Saying Sorry
Parents Should Use Opportunity to Teach ‘Why’ and Good Behavior From Robin McClure Child experts agree that kids shouldn’t be forced to say “sorry” when they do something wrong. However, that doesn’t mean kids should be…
Separation Anxiety
Tips For Easing Goodbyes From Robin McClure Some children can’t wait to try a new adventure, meet new friends, or stay at a new care setting. Other kids, however, become anxious and even fearful of separating from…
ADHD Friendly Ways to Organize a Home
How to Organize a Home By Keath Low An ADHD family friendly household is one in which family members are patient with one another and solution focused. There are also proactive ways to structure and organize the house…
Biting Child: What Can Parents Do To Stop A Biting Child ?
From Robin McClure Question: Biting Child: What Can Parents Do To Stop A Biting Child ? A distressed mom recently appealed for help about what to do with a biting child. She said her provider has…
How Can I Help My Child Adjust To Daycare?
From Robin McClure Question: How Can I Help My Child Adjust To Daycare? Whether it’s a first-time daycare experience, having a child start daycare after being off for an extended time (such as summer or holiday…
Help! My Child Is Not Adjusting To Day Care!
From Robin McClure Question: Help! My Child Is Not Adjusting To Day Care! “Help! My toddler is not adjusting to her new day care. She is there on a part-time basis. The center is threatening to…
Choosing Child Care
Search May Be Harder Than You Think From Robin McClure You’ve made the decision to use child care. So, why is the search for services so difficult? Many a parent has struggled with choices about who,…
Consider Options, Priorities Before Selecting Child Care Provider
Narrow Your Search by Selecting Type of Care First From Robin McClure Desiring quality child care is a given. But determining what type of child care provider who meets your family’s needs, lifestyle, budget, and even…
What are my child care options?
Finding a child care program that meets the needs of your family may be very important. The following are the four most commonly used types of child care by the general public. Some programs have…
Toddlers’ Favorite Toy: The iPhone
By HILARY STOUT THE bedroom door opened and a light went on, signaling an end to nap time. The toddler, tousle-haired and sleepy-eyed, clambered to a wobbly stand in his crib. He smiled, reached out…
Running a Successful Family Business From Home
Find out how these 5 families run their companies without starting World War III. By Rich Mintzer Home-based businesses and family-operated businesses each have their own minefields of potential problems, but the one pitfall they…
Government Helps to Insure Children, Even Above the Poverty Line
By LESLEY ALDERMAN THE last few years have not been easy for Dean McCrea. In 2007, Mr. McCrea, 55, lost his wife of nearly 30 years. Then last November the company he worked for folded,…
Health Insurance for Children
By TARA PARKER-POPE In today’s Patient Money column, Lesley Alderman writes about the various ways parents can find health coverage for their children, even if they think they can’t afford it. Children in families with…
SeaWorld Discovery Cove – Orlando
No crowds. No turnstiles. Imagine a place where you and your family can touch and swim with dolphins, wade with mysterious rays, snorkel among thousands of exotic fish, hand-feed tropical birds in a free-flight aviary…
Seaworld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund Help Protect Animals In Need
Animals in need and endangered species around the world will benefit from more than $1 million in grants awarded by the non-profit SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund. Since its creation seven years ago, the…
Health insurance, finances may matter when parents follow doctor’s orders for their kids
By Jeannine Stein / Los Angeles Times When doctors recommend treatment for children, do parents always comply? No, but it could have to do with how much health insurance they have, a study finds. Researchers…
The Claim: Gargling With Salt Water Can Ease Cold Symptoms
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR THE FACTS Nothing but time can cure the common cold, but a simple cup of salt water might ease the misery this winter. A sore, itchy throat and respiratory congestion are some…
Warnings About Discounted Pet Drugs
By TARA PARKER-POPE The United States Food and Drug Administration has issued a consumer alert to pet owners, warning them about the dangers of buying discounted pet drugs online. Reputable online pharmacies can help pet…
New Parents in Need of Sleep
By THE NEW YORK TIMES Chronic insomnia has been linked to a range of medical problems, from loss of concentration to high blood pressure, explained Dr. Michael Thorpy and Dr. Shelby Freedman Harris of the…
Car Insurance for Teenage Drivers
By Philip Reed, Senior Consumer Advice Editor The statistics about teenage drivers aren’t good. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), 16-year-olds get into accidents almost six times more often than drivers between…
Securing Oviedo’s Future Protecting our Community, our Finances, and our Quality of Life
Elect Matthew Schwartz for Oviedo City Council, Group IV (Oviedo, Florida) “I am committed to working hard to win this election. If elected, I will work diligently to keep Oviedo in the “Top 100 places…
In Worries About Sweeteners, Think of All Sugars
By TARA PARKER-POPE Are you worried about high-fructose corn syrup in your diet? If you answered yes, you’re not alone. Today, about 55 percent of Americans list the infamous corn sweetener among their food-safety worries,…
Drywall Flaws: Owners Gain Limited Relief
By ANDREW MARTIN Published: September 17, 2010 Linda and Randall Hunter own their dream house in Plant City, Fla., with an oversize master bedroom, granite countertops in the kitchen and a screened-in pool. The problem…
Phys Ed: Can Exercise Make Kids Smarter?
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS In an experiment published last month, researchers recruited schoolchildren, ages 9 and 10, who lived near the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois and asked them to run on a treadmill….
Vow Renewals: When One ‘I Do’ Is Not Enough
By ANNA JANE GROSSMAN Published: September 17, 2010 UP until recently, the wedding industry would have you believe that you had only one chance at the perfect day. So spare no expense, be a princess…
Dogs: Not a Gardener’s Best Friend
By MICHAEL TORTORELLO Published: August 25, 2010 DID Bertie Wooster mean to harm Barbara Geltosky in September 2008? The evidence against him is damning. For instance, the hole that Bertie, Ms. Geltosky’s 5-year-old Norwegian elkhound,…
Lightening the Health Care Load for Small Businesses
By WALECIA KONRAD Published: September 17, 2010 BETSY BURTON feels as if she dodged a bullet. At 64 and a co-owner of the King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, she has been in business…
A Textbook Solution
By ELIZABETH WEIL Published: September 16, 2010 The most complicated form in print media is the textbook,” Josh Koppel of ScrollMotion explained to me. “You have a 1,000-page math text with 10,000 more pages of…
American Holidays
Official information and services from the U.S. government Americans celebrate a variety of federal holidays and other national observances throughout the year. American holidays can be secular, religious, international, or uniquely American. With the wide…
Find the Best Places to Live Before You Move – Top Places to Live in the World
By Diane Schmidt, About.com Guide Finding the best places to live takes a little research. Many companies and organizations have done a lot of the legwork for you, having compiled data and conducted surveys to…
Space Commandos Back at War, With Retooled Combat Gizmos
By SETH SCHIESEL Published: September 12, 2010 The highest compliment I can pay Halo: Reach, set for release Tuesday for the Xbox 360, is to say that as soon as I finished it, I wanted…
Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits
By BENEDICT CAREY Published: September 6, 2010 Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms. Advice is cheap and all…