The Curious Mom

From making sure your hotel is in keeping with your budget to juggling the various needs of your family, booking a hotel for your upcoming vacation can feel like an overwhelming process. But it needn’t be. 

With all the right planning and preparation, you can cater for all your family’s needs so that when you arrive at your destination all you need to do is enjoy your time away. 

We hate to be the ones to tell you this, but your home may be affecting your health in a, ummm, how do we say this delicately, a harmful way. Yeah, we know this isn’t exactly the sweetest song to hear, but we thought it better to leave you informed and able to act appropriately than to keep this vital information all to ourselves and leave you blissfully unaware of your home’s vengeance against you. 

So, without leaving it another second, here are the most common and secretive ways your home could be harming the health of you and your loved ones:

Forget About Fluorescent Lights

Yup. These little suckers can have an immensely harmful affect on your wellbeing, especially if you are enduring what scientists like to call “prolonged exposure”. We’re talking migraines, eyestrain, problems with your sleep and even a higher risk of breast cancer. That is why we beg, urge and plead you to invest in a radioactive-style suit and start replacing your fluorescent bulbs with incandescent or LED versions. 

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Whether you like it or not, work is a pretty central part to all of our lives on a day to day basis. After all, if you don't work, you have no income, and no income means no food, no clothes, no roof over your head. However, that doesn't mean that you should be willing to put up with a career that you're not happy it. If you spend all of your time at work wishing you were doing anything else, and you find yourself coming home each day feeling drained and exhausted, that could well be a sign that it's time to move on to something new. Of course, doing that can often be something of a challenge for a lot of people. With that in mind, here are a few things that you can do in order to get started on a new career path.

The MICHAELA Woman is focused, driven, and knows what's modern what's worth buying. Like MICHAELA, she opts for products she can be proud of. She prides herself with its range of trendy but practical, stylish but fashionable range of women's products (apparel, bags and pouches, wallets, umbrellas, footwear, and more) - all of them of superior quality, but are reasonably priced, eco-friendly, and competes with more expensive designer brands. Now on its 12th year of success, proving that humble hard work while aiming for the practical and the fashionable; it perfectly appeals to the MICHAELA woman's need for simple, but dignified and reliable products. 

As a parent, stress is a common part of life. We have experienced every gamut of emotions right from when we found out we were going to be a momma to this beautiful child, and maybe baby blues, anxiety, depression, or any extreme emotion is something we've all felt at some point. When our child has to go for any sort of treatment, it can be another thing completely when it comes to keeping a lid on our emotions. It is horrible, especially when it's something that you didn't notice early on, and perhaps had to take them to a pediatric urgent care facility before it was found and diagnosed, but you need to be a pillar of strength. So let's address the key points if your child has a medical condition.

From your perspective, you may feel a lot of anger towards people; from your partner to the medical authorities for not noticing this sooner, but while you could spend a lot of time playing the blame game, addressing the condition is the best way forward. As a mother, you may feel closer to your child than anybody else in the world, which means that you will experience extreme highs and lows. But addressing the condition is how you should move forward, rather than getting stuck on playing the blame game.

Managing Your Stress 

Of course, while everybody is going to feel stressed and anxious in one way or another, you need to find the right methods for you to calm down. You need to be a pillar of strength for your little one, but this unnecessary pressure may be your undoing. So, find methods that can work, there are plenty of relaxation techniques you can find online, and it may be a case of trial and error, but you owe it to yourself to operate as evenly as possible. And don't forget the importance of a support network for you, not just your child.