Practical Changes to Make Your Home Healthier and More Environment-Friendly
A house is easily made into a home with attention to details. Those details that make a home a reality can range from design aspects to functional changes that are better for your health and the environment. If you are looking to make your house better suit your overall health and well-being while also benefitting the planet, then here are some tips for you. A Space to Call Your Own A routine practice of meditation, rest, and quiet is a staple to a well-balanced life and mental health. Giving yourself some space to unwind, detach from electronics, and recuperate is one of the best gifts you can give yourself. If you have space, turn an unused bedroom or a den into your own little oasis. That oasis can look like a reading room, a place for you to do your hobbies, or a place for you to simply be alone and recharge. Focusing on the Floor We hear a lot about the air quality outdoors and its effects on our health, but it is the indoor air quality that often gets overlooked. While carpet in a house can make the house seem more comfortable and cozy, it also holds allergens, dust, bacteria, and other pollutants. While there are options to routinely treat the carpet or install more natural options, you may be better served to remove carpet throughout your home to ensure improvement in your health. A Color Refresh An inexpensive way to make any room fresher and appeal to your visual senses is to change the color. Adding a fresh coat of paint with a color that complements the room can dramatically change not only how it looks but how you feel. Whether you are renovating or updating, it’s important to consider the prior condition of the walls and…
First Dates – What To Do And When To Bail
First dates can be tricky. What is expected. When to bail. The first of these two podcasts gives information about how to get ready and act on a first date. Advice given by Wendi Schuller and Daniel Isle Skye on a new dating series with podcasts released every week on datingcoach.coach 3rd podcast First Date https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dating-coach/id1492513803 Dating disasters. Wendi and Daniel share dates which did not work out and how to avoid these blunders. 4th episode Bad Dates https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dating-coach/id1492513803
Navigating a Teenager’s Bad Behavior Learned From The Ex’s House
When a marriage ends in divorce, co-parenting is the best way to ensure that your teen’s needs are met. It’s great when a teenager can spend time with both parents, with both of them playing an active part in their child’s life. In an ideal world, both you and your ex would collaborate in raising your teen, discussing issues and agreeing on the best way forward. However, in real life, divorce is messy and joint custody arrangements can be stressful, especially if you’re dealing with a vindictive, irresponsible ex. Co-parenting can also be difficult if both you and your ex-spouse are not on good terms. One problem that can arise in such a situation is when both you and your ex fail to co-parent as a team. Your children need consistent guidelines and routines to thrive and nowhere is this more important than when disciplining them. Having different ideas on discipline results in your teen being allowed to act one way at your ex’s house or even getting away with certain behavior that you might not agree with. Sometimes they can even pick up bad habits from the ex. Needless to say, this can throw a spanner in the works if you’ve been trying to establish certain rules and consequences with your teen. Here’s how you can deal with the problem before it becomes deeply entrenched. Try and improve communication with your co-parent. Successful co-parenting is only possible when there’s clear, consistent communication between you and your ex. No matter how acrimonious the divorce was, keep your feelings about it separate from those of your co-parenting relationship. Be respectful and let conversations between the two of you focus on your teen and what’s best for them. Communicate how you feel about your ex allowing your teen to get away with…
Single Moms – Tips To Learning To Read Your Boys’ Emotions
Bringing up kids together with a spouse is one thing, raising a son as a single mom is another. Boys aren’t known to be very emotionally expressive and going through a divorce can make them even more reticent. The lack of a male role model or influence can further complicate things, leaving your son confused as to how to act and express his emotions. As the mom, it’s up to you to learn to read and interpret your son’s emotions. Unfortunately, society teaches boys and men that they can’t have or express certain emotions. Expressing emotions like loneliness, fear or sadness is often considered feminine and is seen as a sign of weakness. So often these feelings come out as anger and aggression- the emotions that are seen as socially acceptable for boys and men to express. It’s not uncommon for kids who have been through a divorce to experience a wide range of feelings from anger to anxiety and loneliness. Add adolescence to the picture and you have a young man with a cauldron of emotions churning through him with no socially acceptable way to express them. Without proper guidance to find healthy emotional outlets, he might suppress his feelings or start acting out. Research has shown that emotional suppression has negative outcomes on children and can lead to depression in teenagers, anxiety disorder, and poor sleeping patterns, among other issues. Acting out, on the other hand, can put your son at risk of substance abuse, disciplinary issues and even run-ins with the law. It is, therefore, crucial for you to help your son find healthy ways to express his emotions. Interpreting Your Son’s Emotions Boys may not be adept at expressing their feelings but with a little observation, you can learn to read and interpret them. Your son…
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