You can have a wonderful time at Halloween, enjoying your family traditions, without all the sugary sweet, cavity inducing, and hyperactivity stimulating candy. Try focusing on the festivities and fun, and maybe not so much the treats.

Individual sporting activities and “non-traditional” team sports lead to wonderful learning experiences for children. Keeping your kids active and interacting more with peers are both valuable to a young child’s development. I was a competitive figure skater growing up – I competed individually and as part of a team – so I had the best of both kinds of sporting experiences.

Directors of the Elizabeth Birth Center for Autism Law and Advocacy (EBCALA), parents and vaccine-injured children will hold a press conference on the steps of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (717 Madison Place, NW in Washington, DC) on Tuesday, May 10 at 12:00 PM to unveil an investigation linking vaccine injury to autism. For over 20 years, the federal government has publicly denied a vaccine-autism link, while at the same time its Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) has been awarding damages for vaccine injury to children with brain damage, seizures and autism. This investigation, based on public, verifiable government data, breaks new ground in the controversial vaccine-autism debate.

Are you too tired to go to the gym after work to workout? Are you still trying to lose weight that you gained from pregnancy but can’t find the time to fit in a workout? Have you tried fad diet after fad diet without successful weight loss? Well, you are not alone, millions of people struggle with weight loss and being a working mother does not make it any easier. Working moms typically have two full time jobs, one being there day job and the other taking care of the kids when they get home. So, unfortunately the last thing that gets done is something for mom herself. In this case we are talking about working out and focusing on fitness.

his article was written by Christine Kane. I get her e-newsletter every week and always enjoy her articles. In her introduction she writes that she needed this advice herself this week! How many times do you ignore your own symptoms/signs that you are worn out and need to take some time out? Her tips for self-care are so easy, why wouldn’t we do at least one if not all 9 of them?

What’s wrong with that picture? I just turned 45 years old, I am 45 pounds overweight (poetic justice in those numbers) and my business has been on hold for the first several weeks of the year. If I keep doing what I am doing, I will not be alive in 20 years to play with my grandchildren, grow old with my husband and see my children’s success in their lifetime. And I really want to be here, in a way that I have not focused on before. Maybe it is that big number, 45, which suddenly looks a lot closer to 50 than it ever did before. Maybe it’s just realizing that I am cheating myself. I don’t have the energy or enthusiasm I used to have for anything.

The January issue of North Texas Kids will be out soon, some of you may already have a copy or you can read it online here. I wrote an article about how my husband and I are making a renewed commitment to our health: mental, emotional and especially physical. We have embarked on a whole body makeover with the amazing founders of Living Well Dallas, Jenny Bair, the “inner organizer” and Betty Murray, CN, HHC, RYT, Certified Nutritionist & Holistic Health Counselor.