Category: Parenting

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Bleuet First Bras for Girls – Shopping for her first bra

Erin Sluka

Comment: I received a package from Bleuet for this post. Thank you to Bleuet for partnering with Paenting Healthy

Bleuet First Bras for Girls - Growing Up with Confidence

We all remember the pressures of growing up, experiencing puberty and constantly comparing ourselves to others. Sadly, tweens and teens do that especially as kids hit puberty and experience change sooner than others or later than most. How we talk to our tweens (boys and girls) through puberty is important. If we feel awkward so will they. If we avoid the topic they may get the wrong information elsewhere from others.

Finding tools, advice, books and videos help tremendously. Then there are brands like Bleuet who know how to help us through the ‘firsts’ with our tweens such as their first bra. Bleuet knows that girls bodies are unique. Their apparel should give them both comfort & confidence and they offer sizes for all girls. Now they can feel good in a bra that works with their bodies = confidence!

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Each bra comes packaged with beautiful colors and extra touches. But it’s in the bra itself and you have to feel it to know its comfort. I immediately wanted one for my adult self. The material of this Bleum Bra for everyday wear is made of 90% Polyester / 10% Spandex and so soft and double-lined for smooth coverage.

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For your girls first bra there is the Bleum First Bra. The sizes start at 7/8 up to size 18. When she starts to bud and is looking for self-confidence in her changing body, it’s time for a Bleuet First Bra. 

  • Double-lined for smooth coverage
  • Reversible: two colors in each bra!
  • Adjustable straps for the perfect fit
  • Minimal seams and tag free for comfort
  • Performance, moisture-wicking fabric
  • Ultra-soft and stretches to fit her growing body
buying a first bra

Because we need to get to know and feel confident in our bodies there may be trial and error in finding the best fit for her body so Bleuet offers free returns and exchanges. You will find that they want to stay in this all day. It is minimally stitched and no tags for comfort for that reason.

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Aside from finding the best bra for your daughter, Bleuet offers Parenting Resources for you both. Their blog, Blueprint is for her also. If you are ready to take her bra shopping, take her to Bluet online and she will love all the organized information and images to guide her into shopping for her first bra and you get that topic help you need.

I also love this book, Love Your Body: A Self Love Book for Girls. We need all the tools we can get to make sure they become confident in their bodies and with the subject of change and growth.

Visit Bleuet.com today!

Apps, Children's Books, Education, Kids, Parenting, Reviews, School, Tips and Tricks

2020 Back to School Guide – School Supplies, Apps, Children Books and More

Erin Sluka
2020 Back to School Guide

2020 Back to School Guide

Welcome back to another guide full of seasonal topics. Our 2020 Back to School Guide is here! This is all about school from getting your supplies ready, finding the best educational apps or books and more. If it fits the education topic, we will feature it.

Keep checking back throughout these school months and see what new topics and brands I have added! In August we will have a fun giveaway for visitors so stay tuned on the blog!

Make sure to also visit our  Summer Guide and stay tuned for the Fall-ing for Baby Series and Love Your Pet Guide coming soon!

Pick Up Sports – Virtual Sports Classes for Kids ages 3-6

5 Tips to Help Kids Overcome the COVID Learning Slump this Summer

Learning a Musical Instrument Has Lifelong Benefits for Children

Swiss Digital Women’s Smart Massaging Backpack – Review

DEAL!! Learn any Language online from anywhere with LearnLanguages24

They keep bringing the lunchbox back with veggies uneaten! You need ENOF!

Face Masks for Kids and Adults that filter particles and droplets

Paleo Pro – Primal Protein Bars to get your student through their long study nights

Wear your sunscreen and hand sanitizers for easy access! – Send your student to school with HandiGURU

College Care Packages: Succulents Subscription Boxes

Add some baked cheddar straws to their lunches – made with aged Wisconsin cheese from Mama Geraldine’s

Wander Puzzle Co is making connections with women through their designs – great for College roommates to connect!

Send the kids back to school with their personal collapsible water bottle from Nomader

Mary’s Gone Crackers – a plant-based snack for lunch

Parents of tween girls – resources as you shop for her firsts! Bleuet Girls

Calm Strips are sensory adhesives you can stick to just about anything to provide stress and fidgeting relief

Election Night, a family game that teaches math, geography and about the electoral college for ages 8+.

The New Art of Raising Happy Kids: Today’s Guide to a Strong, Confident & Caring Child – new book

Trust me! Your child will love to be rewarded for their hard school work this year from Cuddle Clones

More coming to this link up above…keep checking back!

2020 Back to School Giveaway coming soon…..

Coronovirus 2020, Healthy Living, Parenting

Protect Your Pregnancy During the COVID-19 Pandemic With These 5 Tips

Erin Sluka
Protect Your Pregnancy During the COVID-19 Pandemic With These 5 Tips
Photo by Anastasiia Chepinska on Unsplash

There are so many unknowns about our health with this new virus. We hope masks work well enough and we distance as we wait to learn how airborne COVID-19 is. We are told to not touch our faces and sanitize but now we are told there are toxic sanitizers being sold.

I am just a Mom with a tween and 2 older boys trying to navigate through this, but I couldn’t imagine the extra element needing to protect your pregnancy or having a newborn on top of it all.

I have been searching to bring my readers tips and education with COVID-19 and these tips are for the Pregnant Mamas out there. Being prepared with the right tools and taking comfort in knowing that these tips are from a health expert may help you take all the necessary precautions to make it safely through your pregnancy during this virus.

Protect Your Pregnancy With These 5 Tips

  1.     Get a pulse oximeter: Hypoxemia (a below-normal level of oxygen in your blood) is one of the signs of serious illness with COVID-19. You can pick up a pulse oximeter for around $50 and take regular readings of your pulse and oxygen saturation. Get a baseline so that you know if something looks off. A baseline for healthy people is 90 or higher. When we see below 90, we start getting concerned.
  2.     Check for fever: Whether you have a fancy new thermometer that reads from the forehead or an old-school glass one where the mercury rises, take your temperature regularly to make sure you aren’t experiencing a fever.
  3.     Keep surfaces tidy for easy cleaning: Keeping tidy may not seem like a health tip for pregnancy, but in the days of COVID-19 it absolutely is. You want the surfaces in your home to be able to easily be wiped down and disinfected, frequently — at least once a day.
  4.     If you choose to travel, choose safely: For example, to further protect your pregnancy you might choose to visit a loved one in a remote rural town with few to no COVID-19 cases, but don’t travel somewhere that you’ll be interacting with a lot of people. 
  5.     Keep your distance: How close is too close? Can you smell the other person’s detergent, deodorant, or shampoo? That’s too close!And for some extra protection when you are going to be around other people, wear a mask. It’s an additional safety measure that can only help you and your baby. 

Here are some specific questions to ask your doctor if you are pregnant NOW, during the coronavirus outbreak:

  1.     Have you already been exposed? You have the right to know whether or not your doctor has already been exposed to COVID-19 or not, and what the implications are either way. Have they been tested recently? When was the last negative test? Don’t hesitate to gather information to put yourself more at ease.
  2.     What will happen if I’m positive for COVID-19 when I deliver? Make a plan with your doctor so that you have one less thing to stress about if this occurs. As much as you don’t want your baby whisked away after birth, the plan to protect and test your new baby for the illness will include isolating you from her/him initially after birth.
  3.     Will my baby be immune if I have/had COVID-19? One Chinese case study found that a mother who had COVID-19 and delivered her baby via C-section passed immunity onto her baby but not the illness. Other studies, however, have shown cases of mothers passing the virus on to their babies.
  4.     Will you be the one delivering my baby? Often, the O.B. you’re working with may not actually be the one to deliver your baby. Asking this question now gives you an opportunity to understand who will be there during delivery, and who else you need to talk to about their COVID-19 exposure and testing. 
  5.     Will I be allowed to have my support team in the birthing room with me? If you want your partner and/or a doula in the birthing room with you, this is a very important question to ask your doctor. The rules as we navigate the pandemic are constantly changing and under evaluation, so ask now, and ask again as birth gets closer.

These tips and questions to protect your pregnancy are provided by maternal health expert “Rural Doc” Alan Lindemann, M.D., former winner of the Rural Health Care Provider of the Year award and co-author of “Modern Medicine: What You’re Dying to Know.”

Education, Parenting, Tips and Tricks

Supporting your children through their studying years

Erin Sluka
Supporting your children through their studying years

Regardless of the age of your children, you want them to be good students. Without a decent education and high grades so many avenues are shut to them. As a result, most parents want their children to do well at school so that they can go on to study at college or university. Or, secure a good apprenticeship.

With this in mind, I thought I would take a look at some of the ways you can teach your children to be exceptional students with healthy studying habits. To be able to excel and stand out in a way that will benefit them later in life. Below, I cover practical things like using scribbr.com to double-check important work to make sure it passes the plagiarism test.

Show them that there are no shortcuts

Securing good grades is not easy. So, unsurprisingly, at all stages of your child’s educational journey, they are going to be faced with the temptation to cheat. To let someone else do the work for them or copy something rather than doing the research and writing something fresh. 

It is important to show your children that taking that approach is not wise. From an early stage, make them aware that the educational institutions they attend will be putting their papers through a plagiarism checker. Show them how tools like Scribbr work.

Teach them not to be fazed when things do not go well

Help them to appreciate the value of doing things such as studying themselves. Show them how far they have come by doing that. If they try something and don’t quite pull it off, don’t be over critical. Help them to focus on what they can learn from the experience and encourage them to work on the skills they were missing so that they can succeed the next time they try.

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Photo by Jessica Lewis on Unsplash

Be ready to work alongside them

If they can’t figure something out, be prepared to sit down and help them to find the answers. Don’t take over, just point them in the right direction and help them to practice the skills they need to be able to do their own research, in the future.

Help them to find enough time to study

Provide your children with structure. Having a routine makes it easier for them to make studying a priority. A lot of parents find getting their kids to do their homework after school works best. You can click here to find more tips about how to create the right environment for your children to be able to study effectively.

Make sure they have enough time to relax too

Studying is important, but relaxation is vital too. If your children do not get the chance to relax and unwind often enough they will be too tired and stressed out to learn effectively. 

Of course, every child is different. So, you will need to adapt the advice given above to fit in with the needs of each child. But, following these basic principles will prove to be beneficial for most young students.