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Please Don’t Kiss My Baby!

Please don’t kiss my baby. You may have seen this campaign on social media lately or even seen a cute sign on the handle of a baby stroller or car seat. Some people may even roll their eyes at this request but there is merit to it. Some may know that I gave birth to […]

REVIEWED BY: Patrice-Powers Barker, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences Lucas County

Healthy Eating for Healthy Aging

Most people are aware of the numerous changes that our bodies undergo as we age. Did you know that our nutritional needs also change with age? Metabolism tends to slow with age, yet nutrient needs increase for certain vitamins and minerals. Learning how to balance these changes and continue eating healthy meals may seem difficult. […]

WRITTEN BY: Olivia Levine, Dietetic Intern, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University

REVIEWED BY: Jenny Lobb, Family and Consumer Sciences Educator, OSU Extension Franklin County

SOURCES:

  • Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (2019). The MIND Diet. https://www.eatrightpro.org/news-center/nutrition-trends/health-promotion/the-mind-diet
  • Health in Aging (2018). Nutrition. https://www.healthinaging.org/a-z-topic/nutrition
  • Morris, M.C., Tangney, C.C., Wang, Y., Sacks, F.M., Bennett, D.A. & Aggarwal, N.T. (2015). MIND diet associated with reduced incidence of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s & Dementia; 11(9), 1007-14. https://www.alzheimersanddementia.com/article/S1552-5260(15)00017-5/fulltext
  • Pearson, K. (2017). The MIND Diet: A Detailed Guide for Beginners. Healthline. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/mind-diet

What Stays Here and What Leaves Here

When I was a child, my family would eat dinner together most nights of the week. One family rule specifically stated(PDF)Links to a PDF document., “what’s said at the table, stays at the table”. That didn’t mean that we could not talk about our casual family discussions at other times and places. It did mean […]

WRITTEN BY: Patrice Powers-Barker, CFLE, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, Lucas County

REVIEWED BY: Lorrissa Dunfee, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, Belmont County

PHOTO CREDITS:

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REFERENCES:

  • Ali, D. (2017). Safe spaces and brave spaces: Historical context and recommendations for student affairs professionals. NASPA Policy and Practice Series. Issue 2. Retrieved from: https://www.naspa.org/images/uploads/main/Policy_and_Practice_No_2_Safe_Brave_Spaces_DOWNLOAD.pdf
  • Bates, J. and Yelland, E. (2018). Family Rules, Family Relationships, and the Home: Reconceptualizing Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change in the Family Context. The Journal of the National Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. Volume 13. Retrieved from https://www.neafcs.org/assets/documents/journal/2018%20jneafcs%20final%20updated.pdf
  • Jahn, T. Making and enforcing rules. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County. Retrieved from: http://warren.cce.cornell.edu/family-community/parent-pages/discipline/making-and-enforcing-rules
  • Peterson, R. and Green, S. (2009). Families first – Keys to successful family functioning: Communications. Virginia Cooperative Extension. Retrieved from https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/350/350-092/350-092.html
  • Torretta, A., & VanderWey, S. (2019). Creating group norms by using full value commitments in experiential education programming. Journal of Extension, 57 (3), 3TOT8. Available at https://www.joe.org/joe/2019june/tt8.php

Seeking the Optimal Zone

Have you assessed your personal “comfort zone” lately? Comfort zones, and our attachment to them, have gotten a bad rap in the press lately. Media headlines scold us to “get out of our comfort zone,” but comfort zones are not necessarily good or bad. This blog post (and additional related ones) will look at how […]

WRITTEN BY: Patrice Powers-Barker, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, Lucas County

REVIEWED BY: Donna Green, Family and Consumer Sciences Educator, Ohio State University Extension, Erie County, green.308@osu.edu

PHOTO CREDITS:

  • bike photo from pixabay

REFERENCES:

  • Seery, M. D., Holman, E. A., & Cohen Silver, R. (2010). Whatever does not kill us; cumulative lifetime adversity, vulnerability, and resilience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99,6. 1025-1041.
  • Treber, M. (2015). Are there connections between stress and your heart health? The Ohio State University, Live Smart Ohio Blog. Retrieved from https://livesmartohio.osu.edu/mind-and-body/treber-1osu-edu/are-there-connections-between-stress-and-your-heart-health/
  • Tugend, A. (2011). Tiptoeing out of one’s comfort zone (and of course, back in). New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/your-money/12shortcuts.html
  • White, A. (2009). From comfort zone to performance management. Understanding development and performance. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228957278_From_Comfort_Zone_to_Performance_Management

Universal Design – Episode Eleven of Healthy Living Resources

Healthy Living Resources is a telecast presented by the Family and Consumer Sciences program specialists that will focus on health, wellness, and the impact that stress has on our lives. Whether it be financial struggle, or chronic disease management, stress can creep up as a result of many of the day to day events that […]

WRITTEN BY: Amanda Woods, M.Ed, Healthy Finances Program Specialist, OSU Extension, Family & Consumer Sciences

Boredom is Not a 4-Letter Word

When I was a child, I was conditioned to never utter the words “I’m bored”. My mom would threaten to assign me chores whenever she heard those words escape my lips! I don’t blame my mom for encouraging me to keep busy, find things to do and avoid boredom in my childhood. I recognize that […]

WRITTEN BY: Jenny Lobb, Family and Consumer Sciences Educator, Ohio State University Extension Franklin County

REVIEWED BY: Patrice Powers-Barker, Family and Consumer Sciences Educator, Ohio State University Extension Lucas County

SOURCES:

  • Belton, T. (2016). What Happens When We Shield Kids from Boredom? Greater Good Magazine. https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_happens_when_we_shield_kids_from_boredom
  • Dean, J. (2014). Being Bored Can Fire Up Your Creativity. PsyBlog. https://www.spring.org.uk/2014/06/being-bored-can-fire-up-your-creativity.php
  • Miller, C.C. (2018). The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/25/upshot/the-relentlessness-of-modern-parenting.html?mc=aud_dev&ad_name=%7B%7Bad.name%7D%7D&adset_name=%7B%7Badset.name%7D%7D&campaign_id=%7B%7Bcampaign.id%7D%7D&ad-keywords=auddevgate&subid1=TAFI&dclid=COOX7taO1eACFUlsAQod6MoIAQ
  • Paul, P. (2019). Let Children Get Bored Again. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/opinion/sunday/children-bored.html?fbclid=IwAR0t5Pd8XucDN06kW26cUDXhPO5x1CctJazuZKhxgEItADCaSZHw0ZtMtUc

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