Your Quick-Start Guide to Helping Elderly Parents: Sometimes it creeps up on us slowly. Sometimes there’s a crisis – one parent’s death, or a serious diagnosis – that makes it clear: Our parents aren’t getting any younger. And as they age, they may need more help from their adult children in taking care of themselves.
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Raise your hand if your family budget has been feeling more and more squeezed in recent years. I don’t know about your household, but I don’t know ANYONE whose salary has even come close to keeping up with the rate of inflation. Dear Husband, who is a mathematician by training, calculated that his salary has
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Aging in Place 101: A Caregiver’s Guide to Aging in Place For those of us living life in the sandwich generation, we’re constantly balancing caring for our children with caring for our aging parents. To say it isn’t easy is an understatement; I’ve watched many friends and extended family members go through this process, and I’ve
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How to Protect Your House From Wildfires: I remember playing outside nonstop during the summer when I was a kid. That’s a luxury my kids can no longer afford. Between heatwaves being a regular occurrence, and the increased prevalence of wildfires across the U.S. and Canada dragging down air quality, outdoors is no longer as
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What Makes Residential Programs for Teens With Depression Different From Outpatient Care? If your teenager is experiencing a mental health crisis, the words inpatient mental health can feel overwhelming, not to mention super-scary. You want answers, not more confusion. Unfortunately, with depression among teenagers rising sharply in the past decade-plus, residential treatment for teenage depression
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Smart Cleaning Shortcuts when Preparing a Home for Buyers: So it’s spring, and you’re putting your home on the market – congrats! No doubt you’ve already learned about staging tips for home sellers, and improving your home’s curb appeal. But what about the small day-to-day prep of getting ready for showings, sometimes on super-short notice? That’s where this cleaning checklist
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Room-by-Room Guide to Decluttering Before a Home Refresh: Do you have any major home upgrades planned over the summer months? If so, have you started to work on getting your home ready for them? We like to think that the people we’re paying to work on our home (unless we’re talking DIY home projects) are
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One of the most valuable gifts you can give your children is the knowledge of how to prepare healthy, satisfying meals from scratch. Given the mounting evidence of health risks from eating ultraprocessed foods – including increased risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and early death, among others – helping to set your child up
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What You Need to Know about Injectable Treatments for Skin (and other health conditions!): True confession: botox and dermal fillers, which are two types of injectable treatments that most people associate with looking younger and reducing wrinkles, were NOT in my wheelhouse until quite recently. I’m too busy trying to raise healthy kiddos to worry
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As parents, we all know how easily clutter can creep into your home and take over before you notice it. If you have both kids AND pets, take that problem and multiply it, and you’ve got a real mess on your hands – UNLESS you proactively work to minimize the chaos before it takes over.
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Common Pool Problems That Require Professional Pool Repair: There’s nothing quite like cooling off at your own family pool, if you’re fortunate enough to own one. But maintaining a pool is actually a lot of work. If you have a pool, and your kids are old enough, you’ve hopefully already put them to work, whether
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You already work. You already have kids. And now you want to go back to school, too? OK, you’re Supermom. Or crazy. Or maybe a little bit of both. Regardless of which it is, any working mom going back to school needs a plan. As a mama who’s been there, done that, allow me to
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Smart Nursery Essentials That Make Life Easier for Busy Mamas: Your baby has a lot of needs. They need feeding, they need burping, they need playtime and plenty of socialization, and they need lots and lots of sleep. And that’s just for starters! But what your baby really needs in the nursery is another matter. RELATED
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How Families Can Budget for HOA Living While Managing a Household Budget: Now that spring is here, you and your family may be thinking about your next family home. Spring is a popular time for buying and selling homes, and the warmer weather certainly makes moving a lot easier. Whether you’re looking to buy your
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Out of all of life’s experiences, moving is often ranked as one of the most stressful. Even though it should be an exciting step towards the future, it’s an awfully demanding activity that can leave you both physically exhausted and emotionally drained. However, if you want to take the stress out of it, the single
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Raising Backyard Chickens 101: Why Is This a Growing Global Trend? Growing up, I regularly heard stories from my mama about the chickens her family raised, both for eggs and for their Friday night dinner each week. From America to Australia, raising chickens at home has grown in popularity in recent years. But why is
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Moving House Without the Chaos: How to Protect Your Time, Money, and Sanity Moving to a new home is often considered one of the most stressful life milestones. Not only is it physically demanding and mentally taxing, but it can also be incredibly time-consuming—especially if you don’t plan it right. (Not to mention expensive!) While
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Family Game Night Made Easy: How to Host a Weekly Game Night At Home Entertainment gets expensive fast. One movie night can mean tickets, snacks, and drinks. A quick trip to the arcade or another streaming subscription adds even more to the monthly bill. Before you know it, family fun starts to feel like a
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Does your yard have curb appeal? If the area in front of your home leaves a lot to be desired, especially when it comes to making a good first impression upon visitors, there’s help! Especially with spring coming – a season when many families looking to move to their next home think about buying and
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We all want to be productive at work, right? But what if your workspace is also the space where you and your family live, relax, and exist together? Carving out a productive home office space can be tricky even for those workers who aren’t also parents – but work-from-home parents can find it extra-hard to
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