The Best Parenting Magazines

Sometimes it can feel pretty lonely being a parent, especially if you live on a street where there are not a lot of other mothers. This is where subscribing to parenting magazines can be quite valuable.

One good magazine to subscribe to is American Baby Magazine. This is a complete reference for new parents that covers all aspects of child care including infant and toddler care. The magazine also has articles and ads about kid fashions, new products and accessories. American Baby Magazine puts out an issue a month.

Fit Pregnancy Magazine which comes out ten times a year is a magazine that caters to people with kids aged three to twelve. It is a monthly suggestion book that helps families to plan to do things together.

Pregnancy and Newborn Magazine helps moms with their health from conception through to baby's first year. It puts out four issues a year and has helped many moms have a healthy pregnancy.

Hybrid Mom Magazine is for the busy working mom. It is for the lady who is a community worker, teacher and entrepreneur. It puts out four issues a year which is a bit disappointing. I guess they are too busy being working moms to put out twelve issues a year, but we wish they would. It is a great little magazine that caters to today's lifestyle.

KIWI's mission is to help parents raise their kids safely with the best nutrition possible. The magazine is full of family wellness tips as well as ideas as to where to go on vacations. It also has education and craft projects in it that help teach your kids environmental principles and social responsibility.
Parent and Child Magazine is another classic. They put out eight issues a year. You will find articles about kids about all ages including articles on how to teach them to be polite, independent and become more interested in education. It is especially good at suggesting crafts and ideas that teach preschool kids higher learning skills.

Parents magazine is one of the most famous in the United States. It offers 24 issues a year along with tips, sure-fire techniques and great advice from America's foremost childcare experts.

Parenting Magazine is another mainstay in the United States. It puts out 22 issues a year and helps you raise loving, intelligent and confident children. Parenting is that magazine that you see in every doctor's waiting office that offers advice about children's health, safety and emotional development.

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Ways Your Family Can Avoid Catching The Flu

If your kids go to school then it is quite likely that your family is going to vulnerable to catching the flu this winter season. There are some way to avoid this!

First off tell everyone that they have to wash their hands all of the time. Teach your kids to scrub their wrists, back of hands and the finger nails. Make it the law that your kids have to wash their hands every time they come into the house, before mealtime and before bed-time.

Each person has to wash their hands for at least twenty seconds. This is about the length of time that it takes to sing Happy Birthday.

It also helps to base alcohol based hand sanitizers in your car and everyone else where you or your kids are unable to get to a sink.

You should also teach your kids to keep their hands off their face. Flu viruses thrive once they reach your eyes, mouth or nose.

Make it a ritual during the winter months to gargle twice a day with warm salt water. Use Listerine if you must but warm salt water is just as effective and does not dry the mouth out. Gargling with salt is an inexpensive way to kill the HSN1 and other serious viruses.

You can also teach your kids how to flush their nostrils every day with warm salt water. Some kids can't handle this as a ritual but it is a great treatment and preventative measure for upper respiratory and sinus ailments. Blowing your nose hard once a day can also bring down the number of viruses that might be hiding in your nostrils.

Make sure your family is also bolstered by taking vitamins C and D. Foods that are richening Vitamin C include kiwi, citrus fruits, red and green peppers, cantaloupes, strawberries, Brussels sprouts and tomatoes. Supplement this diet with Zinc tablets for best results.

Vitamin D is necessary because it helps activate the immune system to defend you against the flu virus and any other kind of infection. Sunlight and fish oil are the best known supplements of vitamin D.

Yet another tip is to diligently keep everything clean including light switches, door knobs and computer mousse. You should also use the 'sanitize' cycle on your dishwasher to keep things hygienic.

In the winter drinking plenty of warm liquids like tea and water with lemons can help wash viruses from the throat and into the stomach where they are unable to survive.

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