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Carrie Lauth's Articles

  • Breastfeeding During the Holiday Season
    Breastfeeding in the comfort of your own home is one thing, but nursing around your relatives during the busy holiday season has its own set of challenges Among these include:

    * Family members giving unwanted advice
    * Criticism of your parenting choices
    * Wardrobe difficulties
    * Nursing in public discreetly

    I thought I would address some of these issues here and give some suggestions on how to make things a little easier
  • How to Get Started With Homeschooling
    When you decide you want to start homeschooling your children, it can be stressful at first

    Trying to choose your curriculum, buying the books you'll need, creating your lesson plans, and planning time to teach each day is overwhelming
  • Physical Education For Your Homeschooled Child
    How do you offer physical education & after school sports to your homeschoolers

    Physical education is a requirement in school, but when you homeschool your children you don’t have a gym readily available
  • Homeschooling - How to Teach Subjects You Don’t Know or Like
    When you are a homeschooling parent, it can be a challenge to teach your children subjects you are not familiar with or you don’t like to teach For example, do you know enough about Science to teach your children all about chemicals and do experiments with them
  • Are You Saying The Wrong Thing To The Right Market?
    A subscriber wrote this question recently about recruiting online for her network marketing business:

    Hi Carrie,

    How do I introduce myself and my mission without sounding like a know-it-all I am working toward getting people in my MLM businesses, too
  • Confessions Of A Nutritional Heretic
    There is so much contradictory information out there on the topic of nutrition that I opt not to spend my entire waking life trying to get to the bottom of it all The jury still seems to be out on a lot of this stuff, and I’m not willing to invest too much in anyone’s opinion
  • How to Get Things Done When You're Breastfeeding Baby
    Breastfeeding has countless benefits for mom and baby However, one of the so-called disadvantages of breastfeeding is the perception that mothers are tied to their babies or to the nursing chair all the time
  • Breastfeeding in Public - Tips For New Moms
    When you have a baby you want to do everything you can to make them healthy and happy Breastfeeding has been found to be the best thing you can do for your baby’s health
  • Top Ten Reasons You Need to Be Blogging For Business
    When I network with small business owners and online marketers, I often find myself asking them if they've launched their blog yet Adding a blog has so many important benefits and it's no wonder that huge corporations and megastores are also getting into blogging
  • Homeopathics and Muscle Testing For Babies
    As moms we are always looking for safe, drug free ways to keep our babies comfortable when they are sick For our family, homeopathic remedies have been an effective answer
  • Healthy Meals and Snacks Kids Can Prepare For Themselves
    When your family is in a rush, and you need the kids to help prepare their own snacks or meal, it's tempting to have prepared foods for them that are quick to eat, but don't have as much nutritional value as you would like

    Instead of stocking up on expensive pre-packaged snacks (with unsuitable ingredients) that they can quickly grab, this is a good opportunity to teach your kids to prepare quick, healthy foods for themself
  • Movement Essential For Your Baby's Optimal Health
    As life gets busier and more demands are put on parents, inevitably more is demanded of the children we drag along to follow our agenda For many this is "normal" life
  • Why Choose Natural Products For Your Baby and Toddler?
    As a mother you just spent nine months carrying this new life around It is amazing what a life changing impact a small, helpless baby can have on your life
  • Tips For Preparing Your Only Child to Become a Sibling
    Having your second child is an exciting time, however it can also be stressful for your first child, who suddenly goes from being your one and only child, to a big brother or sister Whether your only child is 2 or 10 there will be an adjustment period for him or her
  • Unschooling - Brilliant Education Philosophy or Lazy Parenting?
    When I first heard about the notion of unschooling, I agreed with much of it in principle I knew that my kids learned an awful lot of stuff without any help from me
  • When Breastfeeding Gets Tough – How to Get the Help You Need
    If you're feeling frustrated with breastfeeding, remind yourself of why you wanted to nurse your baby in the first place, then run – don’t walk – to find the help you need to continue to breastfeed

    Here are some of the benefits of breastfeeding your baby
  • Creating Healthy School Lunches For Kids
    One of the issues moms face as they send their kids back to school is preparing lunches Not only are they concerned with preparing food for the kids each day, but preparing healthy and nutritious lunches
  • Vegetables Snacks Kids Like to Eat
    What would you do if your kids asked for "More veggies, please" Well, prepare yourself, because they just might when you serve vegetables like this
  • 4 Steps to an Eco Friendly Nursery
    Taking care of the environment is important to many of us We try to incorporate green and healthy living into as many areas of our lives as we can
  • New Motherhood Challenges - What Noone Tells You - And How to Cope
    During their pregnancies, many women imagine what motherhood will be like We envision peaceful scenes such as rocking our babies in a recliner while they effortlessly breastfeed
  • Preventing Breastfeeding Problems Before They Start
    Breastfeeding is effortless for some mothers and babies, but for others, there are challenges Even some women who have successfully breastfed before may have a new baby who has difficulties
  • Four Tips on Choosing the Right Nursing Bra For You
    Once you’ve made the decision to breastfeed you will need a couple of essentials that will aid you in the process To be fair, it doesn't take a lot of stuff to nurse a baby
  • Breastfeed and Reduce Breast Cancer Risk - For You and Your Baby
    Are you concerned about breast cancer Most women are
  • Baby Step Your Way to a Greener Lifestyle
    Many people get discouraged when they start thinking of making changes in their day in order to become more environmentally responsible We moms are already busy and many of us feel stressed out and tired
  • Does Your Website Need a Checkup?
    As a business coach, one of the things I do for my clients is review their website It’s amazing how valuable it can be to have a fresh pair of eyes take a look at your site
  • How to Breastfeed For One Year Or Beyond
    As research about the benefits of breastfeeding continues to mount, more moms than ever are choosing to breastfeed their new babies when they leave the hospital Unfortunately, those numbers go way down once baby is 6 months or a year old
  • Video Games and Your Kids: A Review
    A review of Video Games & Your Kids - How Parents Stay in Control by Hilarie Cash, PhD and Kim McDaniel, MA

    Like many parents, I'm concerned about my kids not spending too much time in front of a screen Whether that screen is television, computer, or video games matters little

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