Does your teen forget to eat? Not want to stop what she's doing? While adults can . often miss meals or restrict their eating and just feel hungry, teens h...

The short answer: It doesn't really matter. If you have extra weight or blood sugar problems, just pick something that works with your life, and try it. If y...

Does your teen daughter wake up not hungry, or not knowing what she wants to eat? Does she just not have the brainpower to walk into the kitchen and decide? ...

Does your kid dawdle over his food? Does he cry about everything? Is he spacey and clumsy? Does your lean, active child get short of breath during games? Doe...

If you've ever looked for sleep advice online, you'll find tips like "turn off screens that emit blue light" and "exercise in the morning", which are all wel...

This is my first time linking to a podcast, so I hope it works. In addition to podbean, it's also on iTunes under Bright Families. Transcript is below: https...

A friend with many children had found to her dismay that she was very prone to urinary tract infections that would quickly escalate, and mastitis if she miss...

The other morning my husband and I were discussing insurance costs. We participate in a health sharing ministry, and our monthly share has crept up over the ...

As a kid I could tell that it was different to be an adult. Adults got headaches and seemed to find different things funny, and they didn't whine much. The n...

What determines the return of fertility while nursing? If you read the older books about nursing and amenorrhea (such as Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spac...

The basic advice I always give girls and women about their periods, to minimize PMS and cramps, is to 1) move 2) eat fiber 3) sleep, and 4) drink lots of wat...

A friend had a problem - after every baby, she regularly got mastitis and UTIs, usually not simultaneously, but each as frequently as every month. It didn't ...

Steph writes from a houseful of boys, and has been practicing gratitude with her family for many years. Not too long ago, I heard a story of a chiropractor w...

By Wendy-Irene Zepeda (Years ago, we had an Epiphany party with a short Nativity play. When we needed a narrator, Wendy's oldest child, perhaps 6 or 7 at the...

I'm a morning person. As a kid I would wake up so early there were only colored bars on my grandparents' TV, and I'd wait for Gilligan's Island reruns to com...

My 12-year-old asked me to buy her a "custom" acne formula she'd seen advertised, and I said no. More specifically, I told her she could buy it herself (she ...

Sara has many ideas to share from their family systems for various chores and details of daily life. How do you distribute chores? Their "big" chore might be...

Mary Kate's helpful post inspired questions about how to get kids to actually DO the chores fairly willingly. For example: " I am still struggling with getti...

We emphasize independence around our house, with kids doing chores and serving themselves food as young as possible. So this is the cautionary tale I tell my...

Sara homeschools in the Pacific Northwest and says that having a routine frees up her energy to focus more on the needs of people around her. I've been inspi...