Running to the doctor's every time you child is sick is not always feasible, or necessary. If your child has just come down with a cold or the runs, a tummy ache or something normal and non threatening, the money for a doctors visit may not be worth the trip to hear "the child seems fine, it's just a bug, watch them for a few days and call if they develop a fever".
I have found some natural remedies to share with all of you.
DIARRHEA:
add yogurt to the diet as soon as possible, it contains a good bacteria that fights bad bacteria.
for babies is for them to eat carrots, rice cereal, bananas, potatoes, and applesauce to help firm the stools. Fruit juices, peas, pears, peaches, plums, prunes and apricots should be avoided until the stools are back to normal. Adults and older children can also eat cheese, crackers, bread, rice and potatoes. During diarrhea outbreaks, it's best to avoid most dairy products, which tend to make diarrhea worse. This includes milk, butter, creams, and eggs. Yogurt is the exception; it will help to stop diarrhea.
Drinks like Pedialyte or KaoLectrolyte can be given to replenish both in babies, and even in older children and adults. These will help to avoid dehydration.
SUNBURN:
cool down the burn first, use ice directly on the burn, not on serious burns, they can only tolerate cold water.
Aloe vera products are often just lanolin with a touch of aloe added, lanolin will hurt, so read ingredients in those aloe vera treatments. Pure aloe vera will not prevent peeling later, so use the following to avoid peeling.
Lavender oil will stop the pain and prevent peeling, saving the skin from blistering and turning white after healing. Carefully drip the oil onto brun then blot (not rub) to spread with a gental tissue. Do not shower immediatly and reapply after next shower.
for more click here http://www.lacetoleather.com/natcurforsun.html
These are just some of the natural remedies I have tried and had success with, see the link above for more remedies.
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Penny Pincher's Popcicles and Homemade Frozen Desserts
Cut your summer treat budget in half (at least) with these money-saving recipes. These are not your usual "freeze a cup of juice and put a stick in it" ideas, though even those are great once in a while. Sometimes you want something a bit more fancy and a box of frozen treats can be close to five bucks a piece! if the box had like twenty treats OK, but my kids can polish a box of 6 in one sitting. (I won't mention how many I eat.)
Frozen fruit kabobs
Pineapple chunks
Cherries
Grapes
Banana chunks
Dip in melted chocolate chips for an extra sugary treat. Place on a skewer and on a cookie sheet in freezer. You can put in a freezer bag for storage when frozen.
Make ice cream sandwiches
Chocolate graham crackers broken into the perforated squares
Cool Whip (any flavor) (or use vanilla, chocolate and strawberry to make a Neapolitan)
spread a nice thick layer of Cool Whip (about an inch) on crackers and freeze.
place in freezer bags when frozen
Super easy snacks using prepackaged goodies:
Take any pudding cup or the small yogurt cups and stick a Popsicle stick through the foil lid and freeze
Or just use the yogurt in tubes like Go-Gurts and put in the freezer for a freezer pop.
Frozen peanut butter cups
1 (8 oz.) Container Cool Whip
1/3 Cup Creamy Peanut Butter
1/4 Cup Chocolate Syrup
Line a muffin tin with cupcake liners.
Mix the peanut butter and Cool Whip. Spoon into cups and top with syrup.
Freeze and serve with a spoon.
Watermelon Pops
Slice water melon into small triangles (the size of an average Popsicle)
Soak in sugar water for an hour or two.
Stick Popsicle sticks in and freeze.
Fourth of July Pop
Blue Raspberry Kool-aid
Mystery Flavor Kool-aid (white)
Cherry Kool-aid
Use the small paper cups (like for the bathroom)
Pour a small layer of Blue Kool-aid in each cup.
Top with tin foil and carefully place a Popsicle stick through he foil into the Kool-aid.
Freeze for an hour or until just slushy.
Pour next layer (white) and freeze again until slush.
Finish with the Blue and freeze until frozen.
Peel of cup and serve!
These treats are sure to be a hit this summer and won't break the bank every time your kids' friends are over!
Frozen fruit kabobs
Pineapple chunks
Cherries
Grapes
Banana chunks
Dip in melted chocolate chips for an extra sugary treat. Place on a skewer and on a cookie sheet in freezer. You can put in a freezer bag for storage when frozen.
Make ice cream sandwiches
Chocolate graham crackers broken into the perforated squares
Cool Whip (any flavor) (or use vanilla, chocolate and strawberry to make a Neapolitan)
spread a nice thick layer of Cool Whip (about an inch) on crackers and freeze.
place in freezer bags when frozen
Super easy snacks using prepackaged goodies:
Take any pudding cup or the small yogurt cups and stick a Popsicle stick through the foil lid and freeze
Or just use the yogurt in tubes like Go-Gurts and put in the freezer for a freezer pop.
Frozen peanut butter cups
1 (8 oz.) Container Cool Whip
1/3 Cup Creamy Peanut Butter
1/4 Cup Chocolate Syrup
Line a muffin tin with cupcake liners.
Mix the peanut butter and Cool Whip. Spoon into cups and top with syrup.
Freeze and serve with a spoon.
Watermelon Pops
Slice water melon into small triangles (the size of an average Popsicle)
Soak in sugar water for an hour or two.
Stick Popsicle sticks in and freeze.
Fourth of July Pop
Blue Raspberry Kool-aid
Mystery Flavor Kool-aid (white)
Cherry Kool-aid
Use the small paper cups (like for the bathroom)
Pour a small layer of Blue Kool-aid in each cup.
Top with tin foil and carefully place a Popsicle stick through he foil into the Kool-aid.
Freeze for an hour or until just slushy.
Pour next layer (white) and freeze again until slush.
Finish with the Blue and freeze until frozen.
Peel of cup and serve!
These treats are sure to be a hit this summer and won't break the bank every time your kids' friends are over!
Post A Video, Make Some Money!
Today I've found a fun place to earn online. This is not an affiliate program. (you don't make money for telling people about this site or when others sign up under you.
I plan on turning it into a free family fun event.
You submit a video to this site and then if you were to advertise the heck out of your entry you could possibly make a bundle. You can submit as many videos as you'd like.
Why would anyone be using you tube for free, when this site will pay you?
You could make a bundle with out the advertising, but hey, we're out to make sure we make money, right?
Here's the scoop:
Metacafe's Producer Rewards™ program rewards you for creating and submitting great videos.
How it works
If your video has what it takes to entertain people, we want to license it and pay you for every view. Every time someone watches your video on Metacafe, you earn money.
How you make money
Metacafe will pay you $5 for every thousand views your video gets on our site. Payment starts after your video reaches 20,000 views and has a rating of 3.00 or higher - which tells us that the viewers like the video. On top of that, the license to Metacafe is a non-exclusive deal - you retain ownership of your video. Metacafe helps build your brand by marketing your content and making you money.
What's the potential?
With well over 1 million unique users per day watching over 400 million videos every month, Metacafe is perfectly placed to deliver the most receptive audience to the most entertaining content. Whether it's something spontaneous in your home or something you've scripted, if it entertains, it has a place on Metacafe.
I have provided links throughout this article to the Metcafe site, click anyor them to submit your video!
I plan on turning it into a free family fun event.
You submit a video to this site and then if you were to advertise the heck out of your entry you could possibly make a bundle. You can submit as many videos as you'd like.
Why would anyone be using you tube for free, when this site will pay you?
You could make a bundle with out the advertising, but hey, we're out to make sure we make money, right?
Here's the scoop:
Metacafe's Producer Rewards™ program rewards you for creating and submitting great videos.
How it works
If your video has what it takes to entertain people, we want to license it and pay you for every view. Every time someone watches your video on Metacafe, you earn money.
How you make money
Metacafe will pay you $5 for every thousand views your video gets on our site. Payment starts after your video reaches 20,000 views and has a rating of 3.00 or higher - which tells us that the viewers like the video. On top of that, the license to Metacafe is a non-exclusive deal - you retain ownership of your video. Metacafe helps build your brand by marketing your content and making you money.
What's the potential?
With well over 1 million unique users per day watching over 400 million videos every month, Metacafe is perfectly placed to deliver the most receptive audience to the most entertaining content. Whether it's something spontaneous in your home or something you've scripted, if it entertains, it has a place on Metacafe.
I have provided links throughout this article to the Metcafe site, click anyor them to submit your video!
ARE YOU FREECYCLEING, I AM! The place to get a real helping hand.
Are you looking for help finding some basic household needs? Well if you are reading this you have a goldmine of genuine "Helpers" at your fingertips.
Freecycle. You NEED to join your local freecycle group. You need to.
I cannot believe out here in the real world how many people are not taking advantage of, or not even aware of this resource.
It's like signing up for a million friends with extra stuff to give away. No it is just that.
I have seen vehicles given away!
I got a refridgerator a couple of months back of of my freecycle group.
Not only is it a list of "I have....to give away", but you can ask for what you need.
"Ask and you shall recieve" Well this has never been so easy.
You do have to be patient. You may have to re-post your request, but you most likely can find the item you need on your freecycle group. It is free. It is easy and you will recieve emails alerting you every say of what is being offered in your group.
Now think about it. do you know someone without a computer who needs something? Do you belong to a church group and get requests for items familys need? Post for them you may be their saving grace! Do it over and over for area needy people and you can be an angel.
To join Freecyle click HERE. There is no referal program for freecycle.
Freecycle. You NEED to join your local freecycle group. You need to.
I cannot believe out here in the real world how many people are not taking advantage of, or not even aware of this resource.
It's like signing up for a million friends with extra stuff to give away. No it is just that.
I have seen vehicles given away!
I got a refridgerator a couple of months back of of my freecycle group.
Not only is it a list of "I have....to give away", but you can ask for what you need.
"Ask and you shall recieve" Well this has never been so easy.
You do have to be patient. You may have to re-post your request, but you most likely can find the item you need on your freecycle group. It is free. It is easy and you will recieve emails alerting you every say of what is being offered in your group.
Now think about it. do you know someone without a computer who needs something? Do you belong to a church group and get requests for items familys need? Post for them you may be their saving grace! Do it over and over for area needy people and you can be an angel.
To join Freecyle click HERE. There is no referal program for freecycle.
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