How To Get Your Kids to Drink More Milk

Well if your kids are anything like mine you know how hard it can be to get them to drink their milk. Even with all the Got Milk? campaigns over the years kids just sometimes hit the milk "wall". So what can you do to encourage them the next time they stare blankly at that white glass filled with liquid Vitamin D?

Here are a few tips:

1. Start by just giving them milk as their only choice. Too many times we try to please our kids with a variety of choices. The end result is you have poured four different drinks and they consume none of them.

2. Add some chocolate or strawberry flavoring to their milk. Both are available in syrup and powder forms. You can also blend a few frozen strawberries and go the natural route.

3. Offer flavored drinking straws such as Quick Milk magic sipper straws. They come in 3 flavors: chocolate, strawberry and vanilla. Best of all there is no mess and you can bring them with you on the road so they are always available when that next tall glass of milk is presented to your little loved one.

The Best and Worst Bottled Water?

So the Envrionmental Working Group (EWG) took it upon themselves to determine what were the best and the worst bottled water brands. http://tinyurl.com/2doq3ha

The EWG with their keen eyes decided to analyze 173 bottled water brand and use one determining factor which was "how much info is available on that bottled water brand."

The results which which offered zero insight tried to once again to suggest that tap water isn't that bad either. In defense of tap water though they also recommended that it be filtered water.

As the debate goes on the key issue is continually missed which isn't "how pure is your bottled water" but "thank goodness people care enough about their health to choose bottled water over other beverage options."

Bottled water exists purely as a consumer beverage choice not because they do not want chemically processed municipal tap water. That's it!