Raising Smarter Children

There’s a lot of controversy over whether your child needs vitamins.  Many doctors say your child gets everything they need from their food.  Yet, high quality food is hard to come by in our fast lane life.

Consider this: 

• 24 million Americans have diabetes
• there is a frightening type 2 diabetes epidemic in kids
• the processed foods your child eats comes from a factory, not nature
• young girls develop years earlier than they did 50 years ago – and that may well be due to the hormones and steroids in the meat they eat, which pass into their bodies
• check the label on packaged foods your kids eat – hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated fat keeps it on the shelf for years (is this really good for your child’s health)?  (Hydrogenated fat is scientifically altered – literally blasted with hydrogen to turn the liquid fat into a solid).  It increases bad cholesterol and increases the risk of heart disease by more than 23% according to most experts.  And, oh yes, all those crackers, chips, cake mixes, and nearly every other packaged food with hydrogenated fat insures inflammation in your child’s body (and yours too by the way).  This information is via The England Journal of Medicine which says that trans fat “is more dangerous to health that any food contaminant.”

Read the rest of this entry »

I read a fascinating new article at MSNBC.com today about the amount of time kids spend online.  It said that 16 million kids, ages 2-11, were online in May, 2009.

While I’m online writing this, it did make me wonder – are kids getting smarter spending all that time online, or are they just learning one skill set to the exclusion of others?

Read the rest of this entry »

O.K. I admit it.  My home and office get cluttered too.  It makes life interesting, but I notice far less productive.

Especially when it comes to finding what I need, and then I make excuses. And so do my kids – even though they’re “all grown up”…

Are you frustrated too, and can’t seem to get the clutter cleaned up?  Do you wonder if your kids will clean up their rooms?

I did too, so here are some of the best tips ever - from a self-confessed
clutter collector.

They are  none too soon for anyone who wants to finally figure out a permanent way to get a clearer head and a cleaner home or workspace, while raising smarter children (who are neat and organized) at the same time!

And you just might want to hit that forward button if you have any
friends who are struggling with the same problem in their family…

Warmly,

Pat Wyman

Be sure and visit our http:.//www.HowToLearn.com site for 52 free Instant Learning Tips and a free Personal Learning Styles Inventory to find out how you or your child learn best.

Dear RaisingSmarterChildren.com Readers,

Today, I feel as if I know each and every one of you personally – and truly want to thank you for all the e-mails and beautiful wedding stories.  One long distance love is printed in the comments below.

Erin and Sean remained together, even though apart for 4 very long years.  Erin was in medical school in Chicago and Sean was getting his Ph.D. in California.  Yet, even through the distance and time, they were so in love.  

You can’t imagine my surprise to open my inbox this past week to literally hundreds of congratulations and love.

Thank you everyone!  Virtual world though it is, it really does feel deeply personal these days.

God Bless,

Pat

       Calling all moms. It’s one of every mother’s proudest days – her daughter’s wedding!  My baby girl, who will always be my baby girl, is the co-founder of this Raising Smarter Children blog, a Pediatrician who loves kids as much as I do, and now – a married woman.

Sometimes I wonder – how hard is it to let go of our kids?

I was one of those moms who raised my kids to be so independent, and thought I’d never feel that empty nest grit in my heart… who knew I’d cry Read the rest of this entry »

Remember the standard fairy tale stories like Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, and Cinderella?

Once you share these with your kids, read more at http://www.RaisingSmarterChildren.com so you have a quick and easy way to teach them good values like how to understand others, or what it means to be misunderstood…here’s how: Read the rest of this entry »

There are so many great ways you can teach your child the alphabet, and I especially love this one – they get to eat the letters when you’re finished with this smarter child activity…

Read the rest of this entry »