I can't believe this is the last week of our 12 week challenge, can you? I've had a great time exploring ways that we can all establish healthy habits for our children. A lot of the emphasis over the past 12 weeks was on making sure that your children have fun in the process. Hopefully, if they enjoy themselves they'll keep up these great habits that we discussed. For our … [Read more...]
Disney Living Challenge Week 10: The Right Road to Treat Street
I hope that you've been enjoying and following along each week with our Disney Living Challenges. We've been working to get the kiddies healthy and engaged in better lifestyles but you know what? This week we're going to let them indulge, just this once! Now we're not going overboard and personally we think it's find for the kids to have a sweet treat every now and then as long … [Read more...]
Disney Living Challenge Week 9: Age-Appropriate Beauty
This week's challenge will talk about something that will definitely hit home if you have daughters like we do. We're talking about age appropriate beauty. Yes I already know, we're being bombarded left and right by images that are telling our children that in order to be pretty they should look like this or that. Am I the only one who was shocked to see that they make shoes … [Read more...]
Disney Living Challenge Week 8: Happy Halloween
We're back with another week of our Disney Living Challenge. If you take your kids out for Halloween you want it to be a safe and fun time right? Well so do we. We want the kids to have pure enjoyment, a load of fun canvasing the neighborhood and we want them to be worn out and ready for bed. If you think that I'm joking really I'm not. The kiddies have already … [Read more...]
Disney Living Challenge Week 7: The Cold and Flu Fight
How do you create healthy lifestyle habits in your children? Well, one way is by starting them off early and that's what we're doing here at BlackandMarriedWithKids.com. We've partnered with Disney to perform a series of challenges with you our readers in hopes that we'll get our kids inspired by making their daily health routines fun. Each week we're here with a challenge … [Read more...]
Disney Living Challenge Week 6: Making Bath Time Fun
Wow! We're halfway through the our Disney Living Challenge. If you're just tuning in, for the past five weeks we've been working to create healthy lifestyle habits for our children in ways that think are fun. Our goal is that they'll hopefully carry these healthy habits on into the future as they grow. We've partnered with Disney Living to explore fun ways to do this. … [Read more...]
Disney Living Challenge Week 5: Eat More Fruits and Veggies
Here's a news flash: Most kids don't eat enough fruits and vegetables. I know what you're saying... you could have figured that out on your own right? Well they don't so as parents lets talk about what we can do to make sure they get enough in their day. Lamar and I try to stay conscious of how much fruit the kids are eating and I always make sure to include veggies in our … [Read more...]
Disney Living Challenge Week 4: Take Care of Your Chompers
We're back with Week 4 of the Disney Living Challenge and this week we want you to challenge your kids to "Take Care of Their Chompers". We all know that teaching kids to take care of their teeth starts early. If you can program them early on great oral care habits than you'll be ahead of the game and a few dollars richer without the costs related to cavities and … [Read more...]
Disney Living Challenge Week 3: Healthier Snacking for Back-to-School
Your kids are back in school and guess what? In a lot of cases the school lunch just doesn't cut it. The french bread pizza tastes like cardboard and you want them to eat healthier anyway. Well guess what you're in luck! This week we're challenging you to provide healthier options for your kids lunch at school. School-aged children need food and lots of good nutrients in … [Read more...]
Disney Living Challenge Week 2: Skin Care All Year Long
We're back with week 2 of the Disney Living Challenge. If you missed the first challenge last week we encourage you to go back and check it out. We're creating healthy lifestyle habits in ways that we hope will be fun for your kids? We've partnered with Disney Living to explore fun ways to do this. Through this partnership with Disney Living we're going to bring you 12 weeks … [Read more...]
Disney Living Challenge Week 1: Smart Morning Choices For Your Children
Can creating healthy lifestyle habits actually be fun for your kids? Well thanks to Disney it can. We're happy to announce that we've partnered with Disney Living to bring you 12 weeks of challenges that will hopefully assist and inspire you to make healthy changes for your children. During the process we'll share great information (and products too) that can help you along … [Read more...]