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8 Games to Teach Kids About Money | If you're looking for fun and engaging learning activities to teach kids financial literacy, we've curated a list of our favorite family board games, which you can also use in the classroom as part of your financial literacy lesson plans! From counting change to allocating funds to a savings account, these money games for kids are a great way to get your children excited about earning, spending, and saving money both now and in the future!

8 Super Fun Board Games to Teach Kids About Money

How to Get Over a Weight Loss Plateau | If you're looking for tips on how to break a weight loss plateau, this post is for you! Whether you're counting macros, doing intermittent fasting, following the keto diet, doing tons of cardio and strength training, or a combo of different diet and fitness plans, getting stuck in a rut is more common than you think. This post includes a list of signs you've hit a plateau plus practical advice on how to boost your metabolism and get back on track!

How to Get Over a Weight Loss Plateau: 7 Tips That Work

36 Healthy and Filling Cereal Bar Recipes to Kickstart Your Day | Homemade cereal bars are a great grab and go breakfast you can make ahead for busy mornings, and kids LOVE them. We've curated our favorite easy recipes, with healthy, gluten-free, and high protein options. May of these are vegan and nut free, and you can substitute different cereals - Special K, Cheerios, Chex, oats, Kashi, Vector, etc. From sweet, to salty, to chewy, these recipes will not disappoint!

36 Healthy and Filling Cereal Bar Recipes to Kickstart Your Day

How to Beat Menopause Insomnia: 7 Tips for Better Sleep | Menopause - and perimenopause - bring a whole slew of undesirable symptoms, from night sweats, to mood swings, to weight gain, to sleep disturbances. If you're a woman in your 40s or 50s and you struggle to fall asleep, stay asleep, and/or get enough deep REM sleep, this post is for you! We're sharing our best natural insomnia tips to help you develop healthy sleep hygiene, enjoy restoration sleep, and wake up refreshed and energized!

How to Beat Menopause Insomnia: 7 Tips for Better Sleep

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How to Get Over a Weight Loss Plateau | If you're looking for tips on how to break a weight loss plateau, this post is for you! Whether you're counting macros, doing intermittent fasting, following the keto diet, doing tons of cardio and strength training, or a combo of different diet and fitness plans, getting stuck in a rut is more common than you think. This post includes a list of signs you've hit a plateau plus practical advice on how to boost your metabolism and get back on track!

How to Get Over a Weight Loss Plateau: 7 Tips That Work

Melatonin Deficiency 101 | Melatonin is a sleep hormone that regulates your circadian rhythms and promotes deep sleep. There are many benefits of proper melatonin production, both physical and mental. Common symptoms of a melatonin deficiency include anxiety, headaches, insomnia, and menopausal symptoms. If your sleep is out of whack due to jet lag, an imbalance in your hormones, or sleep deprivation, this post will teach you how to increase melatonin production naturally.

Melatonin Deficiency: 29 Signs, Causes, and Natural Treatments

8 Games to Teach Kids About Money | If you're looking for fun and engaging learning activities to teach kids financial literacy, we've curated a list of our favorite family board games, which you can also use in the classroom as part of your financial literacy lesson plans! From counting change to allocating funds to a savings account, these money games for kids are a great way to get your children excited about earning, spending, and saving money both now and in the future!

8 Super Fun Board Games to Teach Kids About Money

How to Beat Menopause Insomnia: 7 Tips for Better Sleep | Menopause - and perimenopause - bring a whole slew of undesirable symptoms, from night sweats, to mood swings, to weight gain, to sleep disturbances. If you're a woman in your 40s or 50s and you struggle to fall asleep, stay asleep, and/or get enough deep REM sleep, this post is for you! We're sharing our best natural insomnia tips to help you develop healthy sleep hygiene, enjoy restoration sleep, and wake up refreshed and energized!

How to Beat Menopause Insomnia: 7 Tips for Better Sleep

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How to Beat Menopause Insomnia: 7 Tips for Better Sleep | Menopause - and perimenopause - bring a whole slew of undesirable symptoms, from night sweats, to mood swings, to weight gain, to sleep disturbances. If you're a woman in your 40s or 50s and you struggle to fall asleep, stay asleep, and/or get enough deep REM sleep, this post is for you! We're sharing our best natural insomnia tips to help you develop healthy sleep hygiene, enjoy restoration sleep, and wake up refreshed and energized!

How to Beat Menopause Insomnia: 7 Tips for Better Sleep

Melatonin Deficiency 101 | Melatonin is a sleep hormone that regulates your circadian rhythms and promotes deep sleep. There are many benefits of proper melatonin production, both physical and mental. Common symptoms of a melatonin deficiency include anxiety, headaches, insomnia, and menopausal symptoms. If your sleep is out of whack due to jet lag, an imbalance in your hormones, or sleep deprivation, this post will teach you how to increase melatonin production naturally.

Melatonin Deficiency: 29 Signs, Causes, and Natural Treatments

How to Manage Morning Anxiety: 10 Tips | Morning anxiety isn’t a formal diagnosis per se, but rather an unpleasant stressor that creates feelings of dread, panic, and stress first thing in the morning. It typically dissipates as the day wears on, but it can cause nighttime anticipatory anxiety, leading to physical symptoms and panic attacks. In this post, we share mental health tips and ideas to help manage morning stress, allowing you to feel more in calm and in control of your day.

How to Manage Morning Anxiety: 10 Tips and Hacks that Help

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9 Stylish Mom Hairstyle Tutorials For All Hair Lengths | Whether you're looking for simple and cute braided hairstyles for short hair, effortless loose waves or half up looks for medium hair, or quick updos for long hair, we've curated our favorite easy and stylish tutorials for every hair length. Perfect for second or third day hair, these running late hairstyles for moms will take you from school drop-off, to work at the office, to brunch with the girls, to date night, and more!

9 Quick and Stylish Mom Hairstyle Tutorials For All Hair Lengths

The Beginners Guide to Botox: 8 Things to Know Before You Go | Botox is most commonly used to reduce the appearance of lines and wrinkles. It's a great way to prevent face wrinkles, but can be used to treat other conditions like excessive sweating and migraines. If you're getting botox injections on your face, the before and after results can mind blowing, but be sure to do your research first! This post has tons of tips including common Dos and Don'ts you should be aware of.

The Beginners Guide to Botox: 8 Things to Know Before You Go

6 Step by Step Goth Makeup Tutorials | Goth style was big in the 90s and it's making a comeback with a little more glam! These revamped modern day goth makeup looks combine the classic dark goth shadows with a hint of shimmer and colour to create a face that’s edgy yet elevated. From a simple purple smokey eye suitable for everyday, to a red-hued grunge look with an ombre lip, to a subtle, romantic, and more natural both glam look, these tips and tutorials will take you from day to night!

Dark and Glamorous: 6 Step by Step Goth Makeup Tutorials

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How to Manage Morning Anxiety: 10 Tips | Morning anxiety isn’t a formal diagnosis per se, but rather an unpleasant stressor that creates feelings of dread, panic, and stress first thing in the morning. It typically dissipates as the day wears on, but it can cause nighttime anticipatory anxiety, leading to physical symptoms and panic attacks. In this post, we share mental health tips and ideas to help manage morning stress, allowing you to feel more in calm and in control of your day.

How to Manage Morning Anxiety: 10 Tips and Hacks that Help

12 Best Productivity Apps to Increase Focus and Productivity | If you struggle to concentrate for long periods of time due to distractions like social media, email, and mindless scrolling, this post is just what you need to get back on track - and stay there! We've curated a list of the best productivity tools for iPhone and Android users that will help you create schedules, manage to-do lists, keep team members organized and on task, schedule brain breaks, and feel accomplished!

12 Best Productivity Apps to Increase Focus and Productivity

How to Stop Being a People Pleaser | If you want to know how NOT to be a people pleaser, this post is for you! With 10 tips and ideas from recovering people pleasers, you will learn telltale signs pleasing people is holding you back, as well as important self-help tips and hacks to allow you to advocate for yourself without guilt or shame. From learning to say no, to figuring out how to create boundaries, to learning how to stop apologizing, these self-improvement tips are just what you need!

How to Stop Being a People Pleaser: 10 Tips that Help

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8 Games to Teach Kids About Money | If you're looking for fun and engaging learning activities to teach kids financial literacy, we've curated a list of our favorite family board games, which you can also use in the classroom as part of your financial literacy lesson plans! From counting change to allocating funds to a savings account, these money games for kids are a great way to get your children excited about earning, spending, and saving money both now and in the future!

8 Super Fun Board Games to Teach Kids About Money

How to Teach Financial Literacy to Kids | If you're looking for fun and easy ways to teach kids about money, we've curated a list of tips and lessons to help parents and teachers teach kids about money management at home and in the classroom. We've also included a list of simple money activities for kids, which offer fun ways to help your children and students apply the life skills you're trying to teach them. If you want to help your child create good money habits, this post is for you!

16 Fun and Easy Ways to Teach Financial Literacy to Kids

How to Teach Kids to Use a Knife and Fork | If your child doesn't know how to use a fork and knife to eat, don't fret. This fine motor skill can be challenging to teach, especially for children with gross and fine motor skill delays, but we have tons of tips to help you break the steps down into management chunks. Drawing from tutorials from occupational therapy sessions, to OT activities you can do at home, this post is a great resource for occupational therapists, parents, and teachers!

How to Teach Kids to Use a Knife and Fork: 22 Tips and Tutorials