Family Life! Good Advice And Creative Ideas For Your Health, Heart and Home

It's All About Kids, Teenagers, Pets and Food!

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Family Life

Is it too much to ask that your family life should be enjoyable, simple and nuturing?

Sounds good, doesn't it?

And let's make that wish true for the whole family while we're at it.

Better Living Ideas is passionate about helping families get the most out of their home life.

We're here to help you navigate through life with good advice and creative ideas on how to approach each issue as it comes up.

Welcome to Better Living Ideas.

You'll find articles here on everything from pets (care, health and names) to parenting advice for kids and teens. We'll take you from toilet training to teen driving, to...hey! What's for dinner?!

Click on a link in the navigation bar to your left, or read on below for more information.

Wishing you better living, better life!

Best regards,

Nerida
Editor

Family Life: Parenting Kids

Parenting Advice on the 0 to 12 Year Olds

Good advice and creative ideas on how to get the best out of being a parent and enjoy your kids.

We look at child discipline, what it is and how to do it.

Did you get enough sleep last night? Take a look at the pages on getting your baby or young child to sleep. We look at what to expect with young kids and how to get your kids into a healthier sleep routine, and we look at what you can do about sleep problems.

Toilet training? We look at how to prepare yourself and your little one, what to expect and what has worked for other parents.

It all starts here...

Family Life: Parenting Teens

Parenting Advice on Teenagers

Teens get a bad rap, don’t they? Every parent seems to groan when you mention teens, it’s a knee jerk reaction and usually undeserved. Most teens are sweet, intelligent, active, helpful individuals who just happen to drive their parents insane.

Nothing wrong with that. But to make it easier on the parents we’ve collected together as much information and good advice that we can on such things as:

• Talking to teens
• Keeping a good relationship
• Teens at work
• And all the things parents worry about like sex, drugs, and depression.

Family Life: Pets

Pet Health and More

Having a pet in the family adds a whole new dimension of fun and care. Pets can be a great friend to kids as well as teach them some responsibility.

We look at how to choose a pet and how to look after your pet's health.

We have a huge section on choosing pet names and cover everything from pet fish to kittens, dogs and more.

Read more good advice...

Family Life: Healthy Family Meals

Keep the Family Eating Healthy Meals

You can have most of your meals made at home. Don’t panic, or think it’s too hard. There are so many reasons why you will benefit from a habit of home cooking. It’s good for everything from your wallet to your children’s’ long term health.

At the moment we're looking at easy dinner recipes. The idea is to meet our needs for a healthy, nutritious meal that the family will all enjoy, but that won't take more than 20 or 30 minutes to prepare.

It can be done, and you can do it too!

Keep checking back to see our recipes, tips and ideas for everyday meals as they are added in the coming weeks.