Kids

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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Nut Free and Other Food Allergy Resources for Parents

September 21, 2011

al·ler·gy Noun/ˈalərjē/  A damaging immune response by the body to a substance, esp. pollen, fur, a particular food, or dust, to which it has become hypersensitive. My kids are allergic to some kinds of grass. If they sit on the lawn in our yard with shorts on, they get red marks on their skin and itchiness. [...]

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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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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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Healthy, Fresh, Organic School Lunches by Lunchbox Leverage

September 7, 2011

An alternative to school lunch! Reporter Connie Thompson of KOMO4News in Seattle, WA recently paid a visit to Chef Neil Dexter and his wife Emily’s catering company, The Midnight Kitchen, in Seattle, WA. Neil and Emily are on a mission to provide healthy lunches for kids at school, at an affordable price. Using my Easylunchbox containers [...]

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My Lunch Date with Author and Designer, Jonathan Fong

August 13, 2011

  Jonathan Fong is the star of his own web series on StyleWithASmile.TV, and also co-hosts a new show on DisneyFamily.com called He Made, She Made.  One of my favorite segments that I host on my channel at EasyLunchboxes.TV is “Lunch Date with Kelly Lester”. I couldn’t wait to make a lunch date with Jonathan and show you around [...]

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Nutritionist Approved Healthy School Meals and Snacks

August 9, 2011

Send your kids back to school with healthy meals! Nutritionist and Eating Strategist, Rania Batayneh, makes it easy for you to prepare and pack food your kids will love. Actually, her menus work just as well for adult meals, and Rania loves using my EasyLunchboxes for no-fuss pack and go! Here she is on KOIN CBS [...]

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Make Your Baby a L’ovedbaby – Giveaway for new Moms and Babies

August 2, 2011

-CLOSED- Congrats to JENNY, the 70th entrant, for her win!   Children bring many gifts and blessings to their parents. One of the biggest gifts are the lovely friendships that have inevitably formed between me and the moms of their classmates, from Mommy and Me, preschool, and up through high school. Through the back and [...]

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The Nanny and McDonalds go to School for Lunch

June 11, 2011

This is not a “feel good” post. It may even be a “feel sad” post. If you’re a reader of this blog, and maybe a fan of my EasyLunchboxes, you know that (surprise!) I’m a little obsessed with healthy lunches. I take a lot of care (if not a lot of time) to send my [...]

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“The Best Mom” is not a Title I Earn Every day

May 14, 2011

I’m either biting my tongue or feeling bad that I blurted something out at one of my daughters. More often than I’d like. My girls always say, “Oh, you’re the best mom”.  But I know better: not always. I recently read a post by another mom, a terrific writer who fills her numerous blogs with all [...]

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