Asthma, Allergies & Pregnancy

How to treat allergies and asthma during pregnancy

How to Treat Asthma and Allergies During Pregnancy

You are expecting! This is an exciting time filled with hope and expectations; however, for many women it can be filled with questions and concerns due to asthma. One in 100 pregnant women will experience asthma symptoms during pregnancy and many more will experience allergy or hay fever symptoms. It is important to ask your healthcare professional to determine which medicines are safe and recommended to help you control symptoms during pregnancy.

North Texas Giving Day is Thursday

North Texas Giving Day 2015

Stretch Your Donation Dollars on North Texas Giving Day

With this year’s North Texas Giving Day set for September 17, area nonprofits are already gearing up for another exhilarating day of giving. In just six one-day events, Giving Day has pumped $89 million into local nonprofits and broken three national giving day records since 2009. Last year, more than 98,000 gifts totaling $26.3 million were donated, benefiting more than 1,580 local nonprofits.

Reasons to Get Kids Involved in Volunteering

Reasons to Get Kids Involved in Community Service

Top 10 Reasons to Encourage Your Kids to Volunteer

Getting kids into volunteering builds character, develops empathy and allows them to learn about their community. Here are ten reasons why it’s important to get your kids to volunteer.

#1: Volunteering helps foster empathy.

Empathy is the most critical disposition for responding to the needs of others.  We need to be able to imagine what other people may be going through or feeling. Volunteering helps engage our natural empathic sense, but you have to make sure that there are opportunities to talk about the purpose and experience of any volunteer activity if the recipients aren’t visible in the process (making sandwiches for the homeless isn’t the same as helping to deliver the sandwiches to homeless people).