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How do you teach your children healthy habits? It's a challenge that every parent faces. The best way to encourage a healthy lifestyle is by setting a good example - but it's also good to talk to your kids about making good choices.

I met a real live ANGEL today, her name is Tawanda Jones…you can see her and learn about her inspiring story on the Dancing With The Stars website.

I just lost my ninth nanny. I go through nannies the way some women go through men. Nine nannies in seven years seems suspect. Some wonder if we’re secretly beating the nannies or keeping them chained inside the playroom. Why else would we have had such a spectacular run of bad luck in keeping childcare?

How many times in the past few months have you asked yourself, what is going on with the world today?

I look at my little girl, who is now three years old, and I can’t help but marvel at how fast time is flying by. My daughter is getting big. She is a very happy and healthy preschooler. She has not a care in the world. My husband and I are lucky that we can provide her with all of her needs. For that fact, I am very grateful.

My 9-year-old son still believes I have super powers - which I do have, of course. Every mother has them.

Recently I have found myself talking to my almost 4 year old about people dying and death. I suspect it’s partly because we (and I mean, me, my husband and our two kids) play Skylander Giants.

Losing someone you love is one of the most difficult things we face in life.

I have read every book and article I have been able to find on the grief process thinking maybe it would help me understand the process or suddenly make it easier.

I will never forget Adam Walsh. The image of the sweet, smiling, gap-toothed six-year-old boy in his baseball uniform is forever emblazoned in my memory.