Beat the Chill: 5 Indoor Activities For Tots


Updated 01/17/12 5:20 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Indoor Activities For Kids

Even though it's been a relatively mild Winter so far, it hasn't been warm enough to hit the playground as frequently as we would like, and the troops are getting restless. It's hard to keep young kids entertained while being confined indoors, but fear not, for we have some fun ideas to keep the entire family from climbing the walls during the Winter chill. Click through to check out these five Read more

Tweet of the Day: Pink


Updated 03/31/10 3:55 PM · Posted by FitSugar · 0 comments

Pink Works Out and Makes Friendship Bracelets

As you know I'm a big fan of Pink, and when it comes to being in shape she seriously rocks it. I love that she tweeted today that she's spending her time working out and getting back to her childhood roots — sounds like a perfect day! Sometimes the best way to de-stress is to do the things you did when you were 12, like play a game of kickball, paint, or go on a leisurely bike ride. @Pink: Read more

The Family Dinner — How Often Does It Really Happen in Your Home?


Updated 05/25/12 8:15 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

How Often Does Your Family Eat Dinner Together?

Like all good intentions (especially those pertaining to parenting, it seems), the family dinner is a concept that's great in theory but difficult in execution. If your kids are little, then you're likely to be walking a tight line between dinner and bedtime. Then, as they get older, sports practices and after-school activities get in the way. And that's not even factoring in Mom and Dad's Read more

Lil Links: 45 Ways to Ensure Your Kids Never Say They're Bored This Summer


Updated 05/23/12 7:04 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Summer Activities For Kids

45 ideas for summer fun — HuffPost Parents Gwyneth Paltrow's kids take in Uncle Jay-Z's show in London — Celebrity Baby Scoop How to join the fight against toxic kids' products — The Stir Jilian Michaels is a mom twice over! — Celebrity Baby Blog Stores are still pushing parents-to-be to buy crib bumpers — Fit Pregnancy 9 ways to get baby to giggle — Parenting.com Steal Molly Sims's Read more

4 Time-Saving Tips For a Healthy Lifestyle


Updated 05/24/12 1:20 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Healthy Time-Saving Tips

Summers can be incredibly busy — between shuttling kids to and from activities to planning and going on vacation, all the activities that come along with the season can leave you pressed for time. Luckily, we've got a few suggestions for how to maintain a healthy lifestyle, even if you've only got minutes to spare. Total-body in 20: Breaking up your workout in just 10- or 20-minute increments Read more

The Garner-Afflecks Stop by the Farmers Market and Stock Up on Healthy Treats


Updated 05/21/12 10:25 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Jennifer Garner at Farmers Market With Violet and Seraphina

Jennifer Garner packed up the car and headed out to Pasadena on Saturday with Violet and Seraphina Affleck to visit with friends. Yesterday, Jen and the girls stopped off at the Pacific Palisades farmers market before meeting up with Ben later in the day to watch a school play. Even though weekends are filled with activities with the kids, the busy parents of three recently snuck away from their Read more

Bachelorette Breakdown: First Impressions From the Premiere


Updated 05/15/12 12:09 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

The Bachelorette Premiere Recap

Welcome to a new season of The Bachelorette, everyone! First of all, is anyone else as excited as I am to see Emily Maynard take the reigns, or roses, as it were? She is sweet as apple pie and I don't know anyone that doesn't love a Southern belle, least of all the gentlemen vying for her affections. I use the term "gentlemen" lightly, as several of them displayed relatively ungentlemanly Read more

Shaquille O'Neal's Mom Opens Up About Education, Sports, and Keeping Kids Motivated


Updated 05/14/12 10:05 AM · Posted by Yahoo Shine · 0 comments

Shaquille O'Neal's Mom Shares Parenting Advice

We're happy to present this article from one of our favorite sites, Yahoo! Shine: When basketball star Shaquille O'Neal was still a kid, he knew that he had to get good grades before he could to play sports. "In our home we had a rule: No pass, no play," his mother, Lucille O'Neal, told Yahoo! Shine in an interview. "If you didn't pass the grade, then you weren't allowed to play the Read more

What Healthy Living Advice Did You Learn From Your Mom?


Updated 05/13/12 4:15 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Healthy Living Advice Learned From Moms

Mother's Day is a time to celebrate and appreciate your mom, and what better way than to reflect on all the good advice she's given you over the years? That's especially true when it comes to healthy living advice. Many times, it's our moms who we turn to when it comes to diet and exercise, whether that means following in your mom's sports-playing footsteps, or heeding her advice about eating Read more

Swimmer Dara Torres on the Quest For Her Sixth Olympic Games


Updated 05/11/12 9:33 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Dara Torres Interview on 2012 Olympics

We are pumped to share one of our fave stories from espnW here on FitSugar! By Luke Cyphers Dara Torres once wrote a book called Age Is Just a Number. Nowadays, though, the feel-good story of the 2008 Olympics admits to, well, feeling her age. Torres won two silver medals as a 41-year-old mother and swimmer in Beijing, but she harbors no illusions about repeating the feat four years later. "You Read more