Tag: tools

If you want to get kids to actually eat their veggies, it helps if you get them invested in the process and care of the garden. I want my daughters to know where their food comes from, but growing a kid-friendly garden means more than just planting kid-friendly plants. If your kids see the backyard vegetable garden as "theirs," they are far more likely to embrace the products: happily eating radishes and arugula that they've grown on their own. Here are six tips—tested in our home—to get your kids to embrace gardening and become active agents in creating their own food.

We make a lot of decisions every day. Some are small, like, "do I want fruit for breakfast?," and others are quite a bit bigger, like, "should I quit my job," or, "should I buy a house." It would be nice if all our decisions were easy, but there is no universal blueprint on how to make the right decision.

The good news is that, while there is no universal blueprint for making decisions, you can make the tough decisions easier. Here are three steps you can take to make better life decisions.

It’s bad out there, no question. The headlines scream at us, "The worst failure… Not since the Depression… Never before in our history..." Of course, you’re feeling upset. These are horrible things to hear.

So how can we survive this economic crisis and catastrophic predictions of the future? Turn inward. In tough times, look back, look around and look inside. As a licensed marriage and family therapist and a former journalist who spent more than two decades covering people and crises, I have some suggestions for getting through the current meltdown.