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These 14 soft and colorful cubes provide simple suggestions for kids and adults to nourish the mind and body throughout the day. They also squeeze for stress management and release!

Zendoway Cubes: Relaxation and Stress Management Tools

The themes of these cubes include:

Happy (Gold Cube)
Gratitude (Orange Cube)
Positivity (Light Blue Cube)
Affirmations (Red Cube)
Breathing (Blue Cube)
Coping Strategies (Purple Cube)
Feelings (White/Blue Cube)
Nourishment (Yellow Cube)
Play (Earth Pattern)
Principles (Green Cube)
Questions (Black Cube)
Yoga Poses White/Orange Cube)
Chakra (Multi-Color Cube)
Stressed Out (Light Green Cube)

These make excellent Teacher and Counselor gifts for your child’s school. Sometimes kids just need simple release. Like adults, kids can benefit from calm activities that just help them refocus and reorganize their thoughts.

With my son I always keep that in mind. At 10 years old he is very well adjusted and is an excellent friend and student. We always read before bed every night since he was an infant. He goes in and out of phases being an independent reader, but I mainly have kept reading before bed as a traditional me-time and a way to de-escalate at night.

I also give him days off! For sports season and school he gets a certain number of free passes ( 1 per semester at school and 1 per sport season). His free pass can be used at anytime he wants which means he gets to wake up and for no real reason say “not today”. He does not abuse it and has learned through the years to SAVE his free days when he looks ahead and realizes an event may happen where he wants or needs that day. Why? Because sometimes we just need to self care and to call in a day but not in ways that it becomes bad habits. I gave them to his step brothers when they were younger too and they remember it. Both older boys are excellent employees today and this ‘time off’ did not create bad habits for them but they learned to ‘slow down’ and ‘take a day’.

These Zendoway Cubes are excellent tools and every home and classroom should give them a try.

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Comment: I was sent sets of the Cubes for feature. All opinions are my own

Books Reviews, Children's Books, Education, Healthy Living, Kids

A Self-Help Kid’s Coloring Book for Overcoming Anxiety, Anger and Stress

February 19, 2019February 20, 2019 Erin Sluka

Angry Octopus Color Me Happy, Color Me Calm

When a tool is in the form of books and toys it makes teaching emotional skills and mindset strategies much easier with kids. In a coloring book such as this you get fun lessons filled with simple strategies to self-soothe, manage anger, overcome anxiety and improve emotional intelligence.

Angry Octopus Color Me Happy, Color Me Calm is more than a simple coloring book. The pages are exercises to help parents, teachers, or counselors guide children ages 4-11 to manage BIG feelings.

Sometimes putting your feelings in writing or drawings helps us feel better. This is much better than tantrums, meltdowns, or outbursts. There are 76 pages and more below:

Dozens of coloring pages designed for children.
Underwater Scenes, Garden Designs, Angry Octopus, and Friends, and a Mandala.
Each coloring page is designed to help relax, motivate, and introduce an anger or stress management technique in a playful manner.
The variety of pages increases emotional intelligence while offering something for every skill level.
Each coloring page is on a separate sheet with light-hearted text on the opposite page.
User-friendly for children, parents, classrooms, homeschoolers, and private practice.
Perfect add on to the Stress Free Kids Curriculum and Lesson Plans.

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Comment: I was sent a copy of the book for review. All opinions are my own.

Food, Healthy Living, Natural Foods

Healthy Meals Supreme is Customizable for Home Delivery

February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 Erin Sluka

Healthy Meals Supreme is Customizable for Home Delivery

Let’s face it. Eating healthy and dieting is grueling! Why is that so? As a human species we are made to eat simple proteins and vegetables, but it is actually hard to keep to a reasonable diet sometimes.

Even if you are not trying to lose weight but have celiac or diabetes or just want to make healthier choices we are having to Google recipes and nutrition. There is so much out there and so many ways to get food. Healthy Meals Supreme makes creating meals options and making the meals effortless.

Whether you need help for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Whether you need all 3 meals thought out for you. Whether you need to learn how to put meals together for a new diet lifestyle. Whether you need portion control. Healthy Meals Supreme works for all of the above.

Unlike many meal services, there is no subscription or minimum order rules when choosing this service. You choose which of the 3 meals or a combination of the 3 you need, you choose item by item, 5 days or 7 days of meals. You pay as you order and the food arrives well packed to store in your fridge for 7 days as you work through them. At meal time, pop in the microwave for recommended time and it is all delicious!

At Healthy Meals Supreme, they have put all the thought into proper nutrition to create a balanced meal of fresh foods for Diabetic, Weight loss, Simply Healthy, Heart Disease, Alzheimer’s, Fitness, Kidney, Geriatric and more. You tell them your diet needs and they plan!

Don’t like something scheduled to ship, trade it out with a different dish within your diet nutrition needs. It’s very customizable.

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Healthy Living, Home, Uncategorized

Airthings Wave Plus indoor air quality smart monitor with Radon detection

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 Erin Sluka

Airthings Wave Plus indoor air quality smart monitor with Radon detection

Do you know the best time to open your window in a particular room to air things out? What about when to close the window and keep harmful air quality outside rather than entering your home? Airthings has a customizable and easy dashboard to help you monitor your indoor air quality.

With Airthings indoor air quality monitors you can put more than 1 in different rooms and view them all on one screen in your Airthings dashboard on your computer or device. Below, the user has 2 Airthings monitors in different locations – the lab and meeting room. On one page he can view both rooms.

What is Radon?

Who needs an Airthings Wave Plus?

Airthings is branded for families, employers and building managers. The air indoors can be up to 10 times more harmful than the air outside! It is hard to stay on top of your indoor air quality without a proper monitor and the Wave Plus has been fantastic as I use it to monitor the large game room upstairs on the far end of our home.

Our game room is always the hottest and stuffiest room and our home is less than a year old! Even new homes can have a room that just doesn’t fair well with air quality. It can be due to the location on the room. It can be due to the furnace and A/C routing and set up. The Airthings Wave Plus is for everyone!

My indoor air quality results with Airthings Wave Plus

When you first connect your Airthings monitor which is so flawless and takes seconds, you get some information that states it is scanning for a full 7 days to get the accurate results. This means you want to give the monitor 7 days in its new location before you are certain the readings are accurate for that space.

Above it states my TVOC (Total volatile organic compounds) is in the orange but the website says it has a settling time of 7 days and this is day 5, so I am not concerned yet. Also the humidity is going from normal to orange but again the monitor has been in that room only 5 days, but I would not be surprised if I always get temp and humidity alerts once all settles down.

With my Airthings Wave Plus, I get full visibility into 6 sensors including the 3 most serious indoor air pollutants, as well as detailed views of temperature, air pressure, humidity and additional sensors for advanced analytics options.

Notice above on my app screenshot that there is a grey arrow on the side to indicate I can swipe to a different page and that goes to the Radon sensor so you can get the Radon stats by day, week, month or year. Then you can share all stats. This is a great peace of mind to send to tenants or employees who work or live in your space you are monitoring.

Visit Airthings to find the right monitor for your space or home and while there you can visit their blog for helpful articles.