My husband and I have three boys under the age of five, which is another way of saying we’re sick a lot. School-age kids average between eight and twelve colds a year, as do the siblings with whom our kindergartner competes in twice-a-day long-distance spitting...
For the last few weeks, our friend Sarah has offered up her dining room and ordered countless pizzas to shore up the troop of teenagers her three daughters recruited to make more than 9,000 blue ribbons in honor of World Diabetes Day, which beats their heroic effort...
The St. Paul Public School nutrition services staff continue to earn kudos for getting kids to clean their plates. Here’s a story I reported a few years ago about how top chefs have helped them revamp their recipes. The boys and girls at Galtier Magnet...
Breast-feeding Blues I’ve done it in the back seats of cars, and darkened movie theaters, and with my dress hiked up to my chin in a country club ladies room while other wedding guests waited outside crossing their legs. I’ve done it in the back pews at church,...
Photos courtesy of Beautiful Dawn Written for myOptumHealth.com, April 2012 Running can be a great way to get your body back after pregnancy, but blogger Dimity McDowell believes that’s just the beginning of what a few good miles a week can do for women and their...
