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Want to Know How to Decrease Stress?

Want to know how to ease stress in your life and that of your spouse? Scientists have come up with the answer – to kiss stress goodbye, literally. Displays of affection ease stress levels. That’s the conclusion that scientists have come to, after conducting a week long study with a number of mostly married couples. The act of kissing, ‘unleashes chemicals that ease stress hormones in both sexes.’ Scientists dicovered that the couples that engaged in more physical contact, ranging from holding hands to sexual intercourse, had lower levels of cortisol, in their saliva. Cortisol is often referred to as … Continue reading →

Stress: Always Look for the Bigger Picture

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It’s a strange fact, yet I encounter it over and over again. The people who have relatively minor worries in their lives often stress more than those who have genuine life-threatening or life-destroying illnesses. Now this doesn’t seem to make sense. Yet, as stressed as many of my clients are, in general, they worry a lot less than those who live more seemingly carefree lives. As a psychologist, I have over the years heard some terrible stories of extreme hardship, and yes, these people are often chronically depressed and anxious. And yet, the majority of the so-called “normal” and “healthy” … Continue reading →

The Old Wives Were Right: Tea Is Good For Stress

Remember in those old movies where the hero or heroine would undergo a trauma or suffer a terrible shock and some motherly type would step in with the classic line: “How about I go put the kettle on?” The next scene would demonstrate the apparent miraculous qualities of tea to perk up our hero or heroine (it was usually a woman) and step back into the fray again. But this merely echoed what was going on in everyday homes in everyday neighborhoods. No matter whether a house caught fire, a child was sick, or an aging parent died, the catch-cry … Continue reading →

Dinner Discussions 2007 Week 25

This week’s discussions are based on lesson twenty-five in the manual for Senior Primary and up. The Nursery and Junior Primary lessons are based on lesson twenty-four. You may need to adjust according to your ward’s schedule. Remember to keep the discussions upbeat and positive. You may want to have your children take turns asking questions. If you have a child in Nursery or Sunbeams he learned about caring for his brothers and sisters. The children learned the story of Hyrum helping Joseph when his leg was hurt. The children also learned about Miriam watching over Moses in the bulrushes … Continue reading →

Carousel (1956)

Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae formed the perfect couple in the movie “Oklahoma!,” and the studio decided to pair them together again in “Carousel.” However, the two movies couldn’t be more dissimilar. In “Carousel,” MacRae plays Billy Bigelow, a barker at a carousel. He has lived a hard life and picked up some habits he shouldn’t have. Julie Jordan is a young girl in the town who has caught his eye, and she’s interested in him, too. It’s not long before they fall in love, and soon they are married, although her family isn’t so sure it’s a good idea. … Continue reading →

2006 in Review: Homeschooling Blog at a Glance

As a new homeschooling blogger at Families.com, I wanted to know everything that has been discussed to date. In response to my own curiosity, and in an effort to make perusing our articles easier for you, our readers, I have compiled all of the blogs for the year 2006. Deciding to Homeschool Why homeschool Am I qualified for this? Reasons that Homeschooling Works! My Most Important Advice for Homeschoolers. The Cost of Homeschooling Instead of standing up for their own kids, why not stand up for all kids? Disclaimer: I am hardly an expert in education. Did You Know? ‘Empirical … Continue reading →

Late Trimester Test: The Cervical Exam

  As your due date approaches, you’ll start getting more and more checks by your doctor.  Your appointment schedule will increase to every two weeks from around week 30, and then every week from around week 37.  In addition to the fetal heartbeat check, you’ll probably have your belly measured as well, and your provider will feel around your stomach to determine the baby’s position.  Some doctors might even do a vaginal exam for this, if they’re having trouble determining where the baby is. You’ll get your group B strep test, and this might also be around the time you’ll … Continue reading →

Improving Fitness with a Heart Rate Monitor

When it comes to fitness devices, most of us are probably more familiar with the benefits of a pedometer than a heart rate monitor.  But you might want to consider investing in one, if you want to improve your fitness even more. Exercise is about more than just how often you do it and for how long.  The level (or intensity) of the exercise is just as important. A heart rate monitor can keep track of your heartbeats, allowing you to stay in the appropriate heart rate zone.  In other words, you don’t want the intensity of your exercise to … Continue reading →

Back to School on a Budget

The summer is coming to a close which means if your little ones haven’t already started back to school they will be soon. This is an exciting time as your children are starting on their new school adventures, but it can also be a very stressful time as it adds some pretty significant expenses on to an already tight budget. Stores everywhere are advertising their notorious back to school sales and it’s time to start collecting those ads! I am a bargain shopper. I’m all about getting the most bang for your buck. As a single mom, money is always … Continue reading →

No One Is Perfect

Feelings of inadequacy are so common when you are a single parent. When I first got divorced I tried to hard to do everything, be the perfect employee, the perfect mother, keep a beautiful house, and be a combination of Betty Crocker and Martha Stewart. I failed miserably. Some days were just so hard. If I was at work I was thinking about Hailey, how was she adjusting to the divorce? Was she going to be ok? Did I do the right thing? When I was home I worried that I wasn’t giving my job 100%, I needed that job … Continue reading →