How to Be the Best Mom Ever

Do you want to be the best mom ever? Do you want to impress your kid with everything that you can do? Here are some tips for just being a little more together.
The first thing you can do is play video games with your kids. This really helps you bond with your child. You can have revealing conversations with your kid that you might not have otherwise face-to-face. You can also sometimes use video games to work out hostilities with your kid or to increase a kid's self-esteem (by letting him or her win a game.) A really great thing to do is let your kid teach you how to play a game (even if you already know how, because it really does increase the child's self-esteem to help and guide you for a change.
Keeping a diary can help you be a better mom. It can help you vent, problem solve and handle your own feelings as you try and handle your child's development. When you write things down it helps you be objective about what is going, especially if you have been fighting with a mad teenager who is making everything very personal!
Hanging out with your friends shows your kids the importance of cultivating relationships and having fun. Watching you is how they learn to socialize with others as well.
It is also a nice idea to let your kid be interested in what you are interested in and not always coddle just to the kid's interests. Let your kid help you with one of your hobbies. You might be surprised at the results.
It's okay to let your child make his or her own choices. It helps develop his or her self esteem. If your kid makes a bad choice it is okay to let it happen but within reason. For instance if your kid decides to wear no shoes out in the snow that may not be the kind of decision you want to support. However there is probably no harm in letting your kid wear one purple sock and one red sock to see what the reaction of others is. The idea is to not be a control freak all the times and let the person make his or her own mistakes.
It is also okay to say no to your kids. You do not have to be all loving and all nurturing. They will respect you if you say no.

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Weight Loss and Dehydration Danger!

I made a big mistake the other day. I figured I would take some of those hoodia weight loss pills. I should have really paid attention to the directions before a popped it.
Who knew that natural weight loss can cause dehydration? I accidentally made myself pretty sick. I got horribly thirsty, nauseas and dizzy because I did not get enough water into me.
The herbal weight loss formula I took also had green tea powder or green tea extract added into them. There is a reason why they call powdered green tea gunpowder! Green tea is known as healthy for you but it is also a very powerful diuretic and you can lose more water with it than you can imagine.
Still people drink a lot of it thinking that they are hydrating themselves when in reality they are turning their organs and brains into prunes.. Drinking too much tea of any kind is cleansing for the kidneys at first but if you overload them you are in trouble.
One way to play it safe if you have to take this stuff is to drink more water than you think you can possibly stand to drink. Even if you do not feel thirsty you should force yourself to drink as much water as you can. That way you do not risk drying your body out and you can detoxify and lose weight the right way.
I have a warning to mothers. Never be tempted to give your child any kind of diet supplement. Even if it is just green tea. Your child could become seriously dehydrated. Also, if you see your teenage child taking any kind of dietary supplement that suppresses their thirst you should immediately remove the product from their body-conscious little grip! Teenage girls are really into these supplements which are the equivalent of taking speed for them. The ephedra in some of them can make their little hearts race and even give them a heart attack.
You should drink at least eight glasses of water a day and even more if you are a larger person. Many weight loss experts recommend drinking half of your weight in ounces each day in order to stay healthy. So if your kid is 80 pounds he or she should be drinking about 40 ounces of water a day. This can be five glasses of water or juice a day.
Be sure that both you and your child take water before, during and after all exercise and especially if you are planning strenuous exercising. Ten to fourteen ounces a day are the recommended fluid doses before you any kind of athletic activity. This is important to ward off any post work out fatigue and symptoms like sore muscles or excessive thirst

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