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Judging Your Child’s Friends by How They Look

Most of us want our child to have great friends–we know how much better friends can make life and we also understand that socializing and social development is important. Unfortunately, we don’t always warm up to our children’s friends–we wonder if they are a good influence, the right “sort” of people and whether or not they are adding or subtracting from our child’s life. While every person our child chooses may not be who we would choose, we still have to be careful about judging our child’s friends based on how they look or what they wear. Judging and labeling … Continue reading →

Are You Too Focused on Your Child’s Looks?

Let’s face it, we are a society that is obsessed with youth and external looks can seem incredibly important. As parents, it can also be hard NOT to focus on what our children look like—are they wearing the “right” clothes? Do they have the “right” haircut? Are their teeth straight? Is there a line that we cross, however, between what is reasonable and what is obsessive? Recently, I was talking to a parent whose child has just been diagnosed with eczema. One of my own children had allergies when she was a preschooler that manifested itself with eczema so I … Continue reading →

When Your Spouse’s Appearance is Slipping

Time, stress, marriage, and children all take a toll on our looks and emotions. There are those few exceptions when we see someone who looks better after aging than before. However, in reality it is just usually that they have taken better care of themselves or have more time and money to spend on themselves than the rest of us. With time, we often see weight gain, hair loss, hair color changes, wrinkles, flab, loss of figure, and more. After marriage, we often worry less about our appearances and become comfortable around our spouse. Fixing up for him/her is not … Continue reading →

Love The Look OR Love To Hate It

In Hollywood new looks come and go faster than figure skater Sasha Cohen spins on ice. The latest makeover victims… I mean trendsetters… to hit the airwaves are Clay Aiken and Scarlett Johansson. Let’s start with Aiken. Not only does he have a new album out, but he also has a new look to boot. Unfortunately for the “American Idol” runner-up it’s his “transformation” that’s garnering more attention than his new CD. While I am not a huge “American Idol” fan, I did watch enough to get used to Aiken’s spiky-hair then–BANG—he premiered a hipper (I guess) shaggy do. Personally, … Continue reading →

Give Yourself a Facial – Exercise

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When you look in the mirror, what do you see? No, don’t look down, look straight ahead. Look at the face that is gazing back at you. For most of us, the changes are transparent unless we are comparing ourselves to pictures of when we are much younger. Our levels of fitness, age, illness, stress and dieting affect our looks, no matter how we define them. As we age, our facial muscles also lose tone and this is part of what makes us look younger or older depending on their muscle condition. There are exercises that we can do to … Continue reading →