Family Life

Happy and healthy holiday wishes from my family to yours

December 24, 2011

Thank you dear readers and fans for your support, enthusiasm, and cherished friendship throughout the year! My family and I appreciate all of you and what you’ve helped us create, here at EasyLunchboxes. May each and every one of you enjoy this festive time with your loved ones, and have a happy, healthy, and successful [...]

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Fall: Family, Fun – and Green

November 14, 2011

Fall has always been my favorite season: the days shorten, everyone comes in earlier for more time together, the food changes to warmer, more comforting options, and the air simply becomes alive with the feeling of festivities, with a crispness and hint of apples and pumpkins. But in the end, I think maybe I love [...]

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Stay Safe and Aware This Halloween

October 27, 2011

Stay Aware: The Halloween “Trick” that will “Treat” you and your family to safety all year long The above pic is from when we all used to Trick-or-Treat together. But this year, Jenny is away in college (I’m leaving next week to visit her for the first time!) Lily will go to a friend’s party [...]

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Is Time Out A Waste of Time? – FREE Parenting Webinar

October 7, 2011

Parenting expert, Amy McCready, will be with us again on October 11th! My good friend and fave parenting expert Amy McCready’s FREE Parenting webinars always “sell out”, so reserve your space with us now so you don’t miss out. Who Should Attend: Frustrated parents of kids ages 2-15 Is Time Out a Waste of Your [...]

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The Philosophy of Lunch Box Packing

October 4, 2011

“Here’s the real news: Lunch-packing isn’t about food groups and how much of which items the kids eat. Lunch-packing is about providing OPPORTUNITY.” -Brianne DeRosa I’ve decided lately that I have a small talent for curating information, ideas, and people, and bringing them together here via my EasyLunchbox Blog. I share other peoples’ words of wisdom [...]

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The 3 New “R’s” of Back-To-School Success

September 30, 2011

Amy McCready is the founder of Positive Parenting Solutions and author of If I Have to Tell You One More Time…The Revolutionary Program That Gets Your Kids to Listen Without Nagging, Reminding or Yelling. You can read my recent review of her book HERE. I’m excited that Amy will be joining me here LIVE on [...]

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You Don’t Need Supernanny to get Parenting Help

September 19, 2011

Definition of a “crazy” person: someone who does the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. Definition of a crazy parent: someone who does the same thing over and over again with their children, but doesn’t understand why there are NO results. My definition of crazy “entertainment” is a TV show like Supernanny, which [...]

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Project Lunch Box – Pack Healthy Meals for 30 Days and Beyond

September 17, 2011

I’m so glad I have talented and creative friends. Friends who cook, friends who blog, friends who take pictures of what they cook. Friends who blog about what they cook and take pictures of. Healthy friends who do all of the above, and also like to pack lunches. Marla Meridith is one of those friends. She likes [...]

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Mama’s Gone Nuts: One Mom’s Experience With Tree Nut Allergies

September 9, 2011

How it went down I’ve always been concerned about what goes into my kids’ systems. I guess it started with nursing them as little ones. I felt like their bodies were free of any and all toxins since they’d purely been on breast milk during their infancy. When they got old enough to eat real [...]

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