Tag: spring break

Spring break is coming up fast, and busy parents around the country are trying to find answers to the age-old question:

How do I make the most of my child's break?

School breaks can be incredibly daunting for any parent. Plus, they get exponentially harder if the child has behavioral, social, or learning difficulties. And this leads to outbursts, tantrums, or full-on melt-downs. How do parents not only stop these tantrums from happening, but also keep their children productively engaged and occupied during the break?

The seed catalogs arrived two weeks ago. Today you got a mail order catalog featuring—horrors!—swimsuits. Hint, hint: It’s time to shape up for spring. In fact, it’s the perfect time. If you get started right now, you can lose those five to 10 pounds of extra winter padding by the time the first buttercups and tulips bloom.

Here are 10 fresh ways to trim down and shape up:

1. Change your ’tude. Change your mindset about the quality of your life. Imagine how life would be if you woke up feeling great, with a healthy glow and looking fantastic.

Should you, or should you not allow your high school senior daughter to go on an unsupervised spring break trip with her friends? I unequivocally vote no, and here are my reasons why—and you can blame me if your daughter throws a fit.

Adolescents are not developmentally ready to handle the temptations and situations that occur at spring break gatherings. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) of the teenage brain, the executive center, is not fully developed in females until 18-19 years of age, and for males it’s early to mid 20’s.