Tag: breakfast

Family, Food, For the Love of Family

My Quick, Easy, Healthy Breakfast Ideas

Breakfast is important. It is important for overall health, brain power and focus. Beyond nourishing, including breakfast in your family’s morning routine offers many secondary benefits including: Beginning your day together as family Conversing with your family We do life together, encouraging each other for our day’s activities Study after study reveals the benefits of breakfast. Make breakfast work for you and your family. If you have a picture of an ideal setting – erase it. It may be messy, it may be somewhat chaotic, yet the benefits can and will outweigh your less than perfect.  In our family, we […]

Family, Food, For the Love of Family

Making Breakfast Work for YOUR Family

In my  recent post 5  Intentional Practices for a Great School Year, the first practice listed was breakfast. We know that it is the ‘most important meal of the day’ but how  At Family and Home Works, our goal is to give easy-to-implement suggestions to make family and home work for YOUR family.  Below I have outlined a a few suggestions for the most common barriers. “I’m Not Hungry”.  Humans can’t go a long time without their body needing some kind of sustenance. Hunger may not reveal itself immediately upon waking, but it will come. Our goal is to avoid hunger while […]

Family, For the Love of Family

5 Intentional Practices for a Great School Year

Across the United States children and parents are gathering school supplies and buying new clothes in anticipation of a new school year. It feels like a new start, a time of renewal – like the first day of a new year. Children and parents alike face the school year with great hope; hope for new friends, learning new things and good grades. And as the parent and guardian of these sweet children, you have an important role to play. There are many influencers and factors that affect a child’s successful (or doing well) school year. The following suggestions will make a […]