Grow Your Hair Faster and Longer (Yes, Really)
Having nice hair isn’t enough. We want the coveted long beautiful hair. So it’s no wonder we’re always searching for the ultimate in healthy hair tips that will help us to keep it growing. I got good news and bad news. The bad new is, no matter how many hair vitamins you choke down every morning or how many trims you get every month, you can’t grow butt-length hair overnight—or even over many nights. The good news? If you feel like your hair isn’t growing fast enough—at least half an inch per month—you can, actually, speed up the process a bit. Protect hair
Budgeting For Kids
It’s important to teach your children to budget and save their money, but how can you convince your child to budget their money for a rainy day when they can’t plan beyond their next nap? Younger children will not easily understand the differences between depositing, withdrawing, and saving—but with the proper visual aids, patience, and planning it can be done. Here are some ways on how to give your kids the head start you wish you had and set them up to win with money at any age. The Correlation Between Work and Money Do your kids think money comes from an ATM?
5 Hot Drinks For August
Come the first chill of August, I can be sure of one thing: I will pick up at least one (although probably more like two or three) colds or sore throats in the coming months. It is also a time when the body craves for hot and sizzling food and beverages, almost perpetually. You can’t help but cuddle on a sofa with a cup of coffee or hot chocolate to keep the chill away. My go-to used to be lemon tea with honey, but I’ve discovered there are so many more easy-to-make and totally comforting warm drinks that can keep
Teach Your Kids About Car Care
Schools are still closed and the kids are at home. Educators are scrambling to come up with at-home lesson plans that should take up some of the day, but then what? You’re at home, they’re at home, and there are only so many Tik-Tok videos a young brain can consume before your kids are more dance zombies than human. Why not teach them something more useful than lip-syncing to a song: how to work on a car. This is a skill that will be useful for the rest of their lives. Tires Beginning with the basics about tires is important. Children should
Cold Weather Skin Care
Cold weather is tough on skin. Cold temperatures and low humidity levels result in dry air that robe moisture away from the skin. Dry indoor heat can make the problem worse and lead to cracked and even bleeding skin. Without the proper care, skin conditions such as eczema or psoriasis may also flare up during these cold, dry months. Proper skin care (from both the inside and outside), can counteract these effects and keep your skin healthy and youthful. Here are some tips to keep your skin looking its best in the cold weather. Many of them apply year-round. 1. Facial Cleanser Every
Immune- System Boosting Recipes
Hi fam, besides washing hands, self-quarantining, sleeping, and lowering our stress – there is some consensus around what we can consume to help boost our immune system and increase our chances of staying well and perhaps even help minimize symptoms if we do become sick. Anyhow, that’s what I’m banking on. I just thought I’d share a few ideas. Food recipes to help us support our bodies, bolster our immune system and hopefully stay healthy or help minimize the symptoms if we do fall ill. Full of healthy probiotics, antioxidants, Vitamin C, and Zinc, these simple immunity-boosting recipes can easily be incorporated into our everyday diet. If
Father’s Day Gift Guide
Not all heroes wear capes. In fact, if you look close to your heart, you’ll see that they exist, possibly under your own roof! That’s right – our parents are basically real-life superheroes – and we should treat and cherish them. Not that we need any day to love and cherish our parents – if we can, we should do it whenever we can, right? But Father’s Day is just around the corner… (On Sunday 21 June 2020, to be precise!) Although we love celebrating our dads, father figures, grandpas, and mums who also play the role of dad every day
Food For Thought
More and more people around the world are being forced to stay at home, as countries respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ways in which this new coronavirus has transformed how we live, work and keep ourselves entertained feel, to me, unreal. So I courted the advice of the World Food Programme (WFP)’s nutrition experts — on both fortifying ourselves and using this moment as a chance to change our diets for the better. 1. Hydrate, hydrate The body is made of about 75 percent water. The usual recommendation is eight glasses per day of fluid. As we are less active during
Sweat Out a Pandemic
As gyms close their doors, people are buying up dumbbells and other exercise equipment like toilet paper. Like so many mundane experiences in a global pandemic, the way many Kenyans work out is about to change. Exercise is that rare private activity that often unfolds out in the open, on the gym floor and in studio classes and on sidewalks, where people can find community while staying comfortably anonymous. Even in these past few days, fitness instructors and studios have been coming up with new ways to stream classes and bring people together, but ultimately exercise is going to be that
