Blog Posts by HybridHer

Helping your child study effectively for tests is vitally important in the elementary years. When the groundwork for good habits is set early on, students are more likely to experience success and have increased motivation. You can make a difference in your child's academic performance now and in the future by trying some of the following tips.

Studying for Math

1. Use a Dry Erase Board: To practice for an upcoming test, write a few math problems on a small dry erase board. Kids love using dry erase boards and many prefer them over traditional pencil and paper. Try out different color markers; color increases attention, so don't be afraid to use bold hues.
2. Play Beat the Clock: Print out math facts that need to be memorized for an upcoming test from websites such as math-worksheets-generator.com or superkids.com. These sites allow you to select specific areas to concentrate on such as multiplying with fours or addition of twos. Practicing one fact pattern at a time

Without even realizing it, our relationship with our partner can get a little, well, tired, and in need of a "face lift", or maybe an injection or two of botox. Has your overall relationship (not just your sex life) lost its allure and become flat? Just like our face, make-up, clothes, and hair, our relationship needs a make-over every now and again to keep it feeling vibrant, energized and sizzling!

Following are 3 simple ways to Make-Over Your Relationship:

1. Laugh - like you use to in the early days of your relationship. Resurrect your ability to laugh, both at each other and with each other. Yes, you read that correctly. Couples in long-term relationships must be able to laugh at each other. Keeping our sense of humor allows us to laugh at ourselves and our partner in a healthy, constructive way. Laughter releases tension and stress (a scientific fact). Any one in a long-term relationship doesn't need me to tell them how stress, both internally and externally generated,

Do you ever feel like you're living right on the emotional edge? For the most part, I think I'm a fairly calm person. But since my younger daughter turned 6, I feel like I've been just short of "snap" for the past 4 months. Patience? Bite me. I've been walking around with a tightness in my chest, and I'm ready to kick the dog. The monotony of life can get a hold of you and control you. I exercise regularly and eat really healthy. But sometimes that doesn't feel like enough to help cope with that edginess. I even catch myself looking to place blame on my husband or something else external in my life.

Is this human? I believe so. However, I don't think it's the way it's designed or has to be. Isn't it really about looking within if we're feeling unhappy or stressed? Now, I'm not saying there we don't have to deal with stressful stuff, but how we react to it or allow it to affect us is our responsibility. Are there little things we can do to try and improve the affects of stress,

Most Teens are Sleep Deprived
The research is in: most teens get 25-33% less sleep than they need. Anyone not getting enough sleep has difficulty focusing, reasoning, driving safely, learning, and working.

Most researchers agree: many of the common traits of adolescence --- moodiness, impulsiveness, disengagement, and depression, even obesity --- are symptoms of chronic sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation impairs memory, so teens probably aren't being irresponsible when they forget their books and assignments; it's likely a symptom of chronic sleep deprivation.

According to Dr. Avi Sadeh at Tel Aviv University, "A loss of one hour of sleep is equivalent to the loss of two years of cognitive maturation and development." Since the effects of sleep loss are cumulative, it can impair judgment and performance within several weeks.

Why Teens Don't Sleep
During puberty, the circadian rhythms --- the cycle of changes the body undergoes in a 24-hour period ---

Sibling rivalry is normal in families with more than one child. It becomes a problem when one child bullies or dominates the other. It's also a more complex issue than it first appears. On the surface, you have two kids who are "at war"-who bicker constantly and don't get along. There can be many reasons for this, but at the core of this rivalry is a common theme that runs through it all: the sense that one sibling is the victim of the other and somehow "less than." And that child often believes that he gets less love from his parents than his dominant brother or sister does.

Sibling rivalry is a difficult and sometimes painful issue for many families, but here's the bottom line: rivalry and jealousy are a normal part of life. Your responsibility is to help your kids learn to manage the feelings that come along with it. If they don't, these issues will get carried over into adult life. The feelings of injustice, unfairness, and victimhood that accompany sibling jealousy become

Each week over a hundred pregnant moms make their way into our office for their routine obstetric visits. We are often amazed by the myths floating around in the community intending to confuse and scare potential mothers to be. For a variety of reasons, urban legends and old wives tales seem to thrive in the world pregnancy.

After checking out some of the information out there, we decided it was time to pool our vast wealth of shared knowledge and experience and write our own book, "The Mommy Doc's Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy and Birth," based on the most up-to-date medical research available and filtered through the lens of our daily lives, both as busy ob-gyns and as dedicated moms.

Below are some of the most common myths we encounter in our practice and the reasons the myths are incorrect.

When you're pregnant, you're eating for two!
FACT: No, you're not! You don't need to eat twice as much when you are pregnant. Yes, you have a baby growing and developing inside you,

Sure, vegetables are healthy no matter which ones you choose..but science has proven that certain veggies are nutritional powerhouses and greens are at the top of the list. Not sure which ones to eat? Try this quiz and be sure to check out the recipes that follow!

1. What green is ranked #1 by the Center for Science in the Public Interest?
2. No milk? Which green should you eat to boost your calcium intake?
3. Which green should you dive for when you're sick to boost your immunity?
4. If you swap out lettuce in your salad what other green is a better choice?

Answers

1. Kale. Kale is packed with such nutrients as vitamins K,A, and C as well as calcium. It has also been proven to help reduce the risk of bladder, ovarian, breast, and prostate cancer.
2. All greens contain calcium, but watercress offers the most bang for your buck and it only contains 4 calories per cup. Try this Broccoli, Tomato & Watercress Salad.
3. All greens contain antioxidants so any green will be a great

People who have never experienced the rejection of a son at his wife's behest won't understand this article. But those who have been through this experience - whose sons have married and turned against them as if they were dirt after all the years of love and care the parents gave them - will rejoice at finding they aren't alone.

Just what you need, a new daughter-in-law who sets out to remake your son and build a wall between him and his family! You probably feel that she ranks right up there with root canals, brain surgery, and irritable bowel syndrome. And, what is more, you realize, she's going to be there for a long time.

As I have shown in my book, A Son Is a Son Till He Gets a Wife, more and more men today marry women who have the idea that the first order of business, once they've got their husbands to the altar, is to create an impenetrable barrier between them and their families. Psychologists estimate that roughly one in ten families face this problem when their sons