Joyce Carboni from Skinsational Skin and Body Spa, a premier day spa in Carlsbad, California, knows times are tough. Here are some of Joyce’s inspirational tips on how to be a socialite on a budget!
If your face is starting to reflect stress and fatigue, restore a super radiant glow to your skin with a mini [...]

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Keeping kids and teens healthy can be a challenge during the busy school year. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say that nearly 22 million school days are lost annually due to the common cold alone.
Fortunately, there are some simple, and natural, things parents can do to help kids stay healthy [...]

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Recently, John Stamos was interviewed and mentioned that he is the national spokesman for Project Cuddle, a charity that works to prevent babies from being abandoned.
According to Project Cuddle, it has been estimated that there are 57 babies abandoned daily across the United States. 57 babies daily. This adds up to over 20,000 [...]

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What to Expect When You’re Expecting by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel has been the “go-to” resource book for thousands and thousands (and thousands) of pregnant women for the past 25 years.
Its popularity among women is the reason why it is been on the New York Times bestseller list for 355 weeks, with nearly 15 [...]

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We had a few Smart Mamas email us the link to a very interesting article that was published in the New York Times on Monday, May 19th, 2008 by Julia Moskin.
For an All-Organic Formula, Baby, That’s Sweet discusses how parents who are buying Similac Organic may, in fact, be giving their babies a sweeter taste. [...]

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Amy from Crunchy Domestic Goddess wrote a powerful blog on May 15th, 2008 that we asked if we could share on Smart Mama…

Women, Children Resort to Eating Dirt Cookies in Haiti: The Global Food Crisis
May 15, 2008
This post is part of Bloggers Unite for Human Rights
If you live in the United States or North America [...]

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Many women choose natural childbirth in order to participate fully in the birth of their baby and to have control over the birthing experience. By choosing natural childbirth, she will be using a minimum of routine interventions during labor and is expecting to be unmedicated throughout the birth.
Natural childbirth means that the birthing mother accepts [...]

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We recently had a chance to chat with Debbie Jacobson, creator and executive producer of “What’s Next?” on Retirement Living TV.
The lifestyle makeover show for middle age, “What’s Next?” shares inspirational stories of men and women who want to make the most of their freedom years. Having achieved the goal of retirement, many retirees, however, [...]

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A hundred years ago herbs were not only used in cooking, but were the basic ingredient in most health remedies used to treat common aliments. The herbs were planted in the spring and dried in the fall, to be handy for the up coming year.
Perhaps using home remedies was found to be the more prudent [...]

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Feeling burnout as a Mom is very common. It does not mean that you are failing as a Mom.
It’s mostly due to the isolation that a lot of Moms face in our culture, as well as the over-scheduling and overwork that a lot of us deal with.
Here are 6 things you can do to prevent [...]

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