Did you know that babies can benefit from superfoods, too? Just as full-grown adults can stay healthy and vibrant from eating a colorful, fresh food diet, our young infants and toddlers can reap the same rewards. Start your youngin’ off on the right foot in life with a superfood diet full of wholesome, natural ingredients. It doesn’t take any fancy equipment, expensive ingredients or specialty brand names to do it—just real fruits and vegetables and a strong hand to mash foods down. That’s it!

Do not underestimate the promise that lies within a good paint job. Whether your second bedroom is in desperate need of a spruce up or you're helping your daughter put her personal stamp on a new room to call her own, paint can provide a relatively cheap, noticeable spark to any space. But in all the fun that is choosing colors, don't skip over one extremely important, but simple, step: Checking to see if the paint is non-toxic.

Back when you were a kid, cookies and milk were de rigeur for Christmas Eve. Somewhere along the way, you developed a more sophisticated palate -- that is to say, you started boozing. Take a break from the brandy-laced nog, the mulled wine and the peppermint martinis with these traditional recipes that are suitable for kids and well-behaved adults alike.

The healthiest of health nuts love Halloween candy. It's fun and conjures thoughts of childhood, crazy costumes and pumpkin carving. All those warm and fuzzies fly out the window once you read almost any traditional candy's nutritional label, though. Hydrogenated fats? Check. High fructose corn syrup? Check. Not all Halloween candy packs an unhealthy punch, though. The following natural candy distributors carry healthy Halloween candy ideal for trick-or-treaters (or you, for that matter!).

This Halloween, you’ll undoubtedly be bombarded with candy. At the check-out aisle, at the gas station, at the PTO meetings, at the picnic, at the pizza shop, and certainly… at your kids’ requests. Halloween and candy are knit closely together, and while you may not be able to completely escape the sugar trap that goes hand-in-hand with the holiday, you can avoid some of the worst Halloween candy choices for both you and your family. Here are our top five scariest candy choices at the grocery store this Halloween.

Every child loves Play-Dough, and more adults should give it a second squeeze, as the soft, pliable dough works well as a stress reliever and as therapy for overworked hands. Inexpensive and non-toxic, this imagination-promoting toy can inspire whole new worlds of dough and keep children entertained for hours. 

We all know that veggies (and lots of them!) are key to a healthy diet. So it's frustrating to cook a healthy dinner, including plenty of fresh, vitamin-rich vegetables, and watch our kids disdainfully push the veggies to the edges of the plate and refuse to eat them. At times like these, it pays to be a little bit sneaky. Here are five easy ways to sneak veggies into your kids' meals -- without them realizing it!

We all want our kids to eat as healthfully as possible. We plan and pack a lunch that will fill them with energy and give them all of the vitamins their growing bodies require.

And then we hear that our little darling traded her veggie pita pocket to her friend for a bag of Doritos. Aargh.

By the time they get home from school, most kids are absolutely ravenous. Why not give them something that will fill them up and provide some healthy fiber at the same time? Walk in the granola bar, a convenient way to give your kids a snack you can all feel good about. And, when you make them yourself, you don't have to worry about funky, unpronounceable ingredients. Here is a simple recipe that you can customize depending on what your kids like.

Your local farmers market is a fantastic place year-round to find fresh native produce and get to know others in your community. Farmers markets provide a small slice of Americana that some might think lost, but when you shake the hand of the person who grew the tomatoes that you are having for lunch, a fundamental shift occurs in your thinking and eating process, which becomes more real with each juicy bite.