When it comes to children and the Internet, what are the best practices to keep them safe and teach them how to be responsible online?

Bathrooms can be a breeding ground for germs and bacteria, keeping them clean not only makes them nicer to use, but could keep your family from getting sick.

Making houseguests feel welcome doesn’t have to cost a lot of money or wreak havoc on the family schedule.

It’s happened to all of us. At one point or another we’ve look around our kitchen and thought, “What on earth is that smell?” Here are some tips to keep your kitchen smelling clean and fresh.

A well-arranged display of family pictures is more than just putting a nail in the wall. The right photo frame, placement, and color coordination are all important considerations. Here are a few tips to help your photographs look their best.

Studies have shown that children who share family dinners do better in school, are less likely to abuse drugs and alcohol and can leap tall buildings in a single bound.

Feng Shui, pronounced fung-shway, is an ancient Chinese practice of utilizing the Laws of heaven (astronomy) and earth (geography) to improve one’s life by receiving positive chi or energy.

If you live in a land-locked state, it might be difficult to get your hands on a live lobster, but I have found that most of the larger grocery stores have a live seafood tank.

Apparently, by January 24th bills from Christmas come due, people have already given up on their New Year’s resolutions and winter temperatures are at their coldest.

Nothing can be more frustrating for a mom than feeling like a one-woman show. Everyone in the home needs to pitch in and do their share.

The bad news is Christmas is over. The good news is that the decorations will come down faster than they went up.

I am a Christmas Tree Prognosticator. It’s sort of like reading palms. I can tell a lot about a person’s life and personality by their Christmas tree.

What does CHRISTMAS stand for?

In my normal life I am a devoted wife, a doting mother, TV “spokesmom,” and a well-meaning volunteer. As of late I have added event organizer, vocalist, and potential juror.

I know there are many of you out there that can recall a Halloween from your own childhood when the sugar rush wore off and the gastrointestinal difficulties began.

A few years ago a gentlemen asked my dad how he raised such nice kids. Everyone in the room paused, listened in, and waited for my dad to depart his words of wisdom. His reply, “I just do everything they tell me.”

If you have one baby dancing on the kitchen table, you whip out the video camera, if you have two babies dancing on the table; you whip out the insurance card, because an ER visit is in your near future.

With the kids back in school, I am finally getting around to the ever-growing “to do” list of things I have been putting off all summer.

Whether you couldn’t wait for school to start or you wanted summer to linger longer, the new school year is has begun. Here are a few websites to help your family jump in with both feet.

There are many do-it-yourself projects that can be done on a limited budget to add personality and style to an otherwise standard-looking home.

If you’ve been out shopping lately you’ve probably noticed that it’s the time of year again when household items go on sale to help co-eds get ready for setting up housekeeping at college.

At some point in your life, perhaps during childhood, you realized that not all people live the same. I’ve visited many homes, in many different countries, in fact, and I’ve noticed several things that set the tidy apart from the rest, I call them (ala the recently deceased Stephen Covey); The Seven Habits of Highly-Tidy People.

June Cleaver is my hero. Clean house, happy kids, and home-cooked meals. She was loved and appreciated by Ward, Wally and “The Beave”. She was even polite and patient with the ornery, suck-up of a neighbor kid, Eddy Haskell.

There are two types of kids. Kids who behave better for other people than for their parents and then there are the kids that are better behaved for their parent than other adults.

Whatever your reason for blogging, if you are trying to attract an audience, here is a list of ten missteps that can make the difference between a full comment box and a comment box full of chirping crickets.