Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Parents, Patch wants to hear from you on the questions that get families talking.
Welcome to Hey Mom and Dad—a weekly feature in which we ask our Facebook fans to share their views on parenting. Every week, we get the conversation started by taking a look back at a question we asked parents the week before on Patch Facebook pages from around the western suburbs. Each new year, people vow to make a fresh start for themselves or loved ones. With recent gun violence in the news, some parents have told us they plan to cut back on their kids' consumption of violent movies or video games. Others may want to eat more family dinners together or have their kids spend more time outside. This brings us to this week's question: Take a look at what Patch users throughout the western suburbs had to say and join the conversation in …
Monday, December 31, 2012
Five tips to help you keep your resolution.
Are you making a resolution this year? Do you want to lose weight, gain a new skill or organize your house? Whatever your resolution is, here are some tips to help you stick to it throughout the year. Get news in your inbox. Sign up for the Patch newsletter. Like Naperville Patch on Facebook. 1. Make it attainable. Be sure that your resolution is attainable. Sticking to your monthly budget is attainable—making a million dollars may not be. 2. Tell everyone. If you tell everyone about your resolution, you are more likely to keep it. If you want to quit smoking, you can even go as far as telling your friends that you'll give them $50 if they catch you lighting up. 3. Be specific. If you want to get fit in the new year, set a specific goal. …
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Every New Year, people make resolutions. How successful a person is in following through depends upon whether they take positive steps to achieve their goals.
With the arrival of the New Year, the resolution-making begins. Whether it's losing weight, finding a better job, spending more time with loved ones or some other worthy goal, the list of things to do, to change or to quit gets written up. The key mistake people make when writing those resolutions for the New Year is that they set the expectations too high and want results too soon, according to a life coach and two fitness trainers. "One of the biggest things is people tend to make their goals too lofty," said Erik Walter, manager at Endure It!, a Naperville fitness training business for those interested in fitness and endurance sports. "When they see how hard it is to achieve them, they throw them out the window." That is a year-round …
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Melissa
11:01 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013
I would like to work on better time management since I'm expecting number 2, and I want to get the family to church a little more often. more ›