Beauty Tips and Tricks: How to Avoid Very Dry Hands in winter

A common problem among all super moms, during winter, is the dry skin, more particularly dry hands. This is terribly annoying, especially when you are tending to look at your best. Severe hand dryness can cause cracked skin, blisters and bleeding, and this could be enormously painful. How to be Super Mom will give you few beauty tips and secrets on how to avoid cracked skin.

What Causes Dry Skin:

• Extreme hand washing: during the winter, a super mom might be obligated to wash her   hands more often to avoid the spread of germs. This constant exposure to water could cause very dry hands and cracked skin.
• Excessive intake of coffee of alcohol: coffee and/or alcohol consumption usually leads to dehydration. This condition is represented by very dry hands and chapped itchy skin.
• Indoor Heat: During winter, the use of a heater leads to an indoor air dehydration, and your skin loses dampness from the atmosphere leading to very dry hands and skin.

Free Beauty Tips on How to Avoid Very Dry Hands in winter:

1.  Use a humidifier: This device will prevent the loss of dampness indoors. For best results, distilled water is more advisable
2. Prevent the use of severe cleansers: When you’re in the supermarket choosing your detergents, be careful to select cleansers that are skin-friendly to prevent hand dryness. As a supermom, you might be worried about the stain removal way more than you care about the side effects which these products can have on your skin. But always keep in mind that a mother should never neglect her looks neither her skin nor hands, that is why you should care to choose cleansers that are mild and might contain some beneficial ingredients such as jojoba oil or coconut oil.
3. Keep a Moisturizer by your side: Apply a moisturizer to both your skin and hands after every shower, or wash. To prevent very dry hands you should rub your hands with a lotion rich in beneficial oils to avoid cracked and chapped skin.
4. Drink water: In all” How to be Super Mom” natural beauty tips, you will encounter “water drinking”. Water is very essential to the body, renewing your cells and giving you excessive energy and health. Make sure you drink more than 8 glasses of water a day.

How to be Super Mom: Valentine's Day

Dear Supermoms,
Are you getting ready for valentines day? I have my daughter's first birthday on the 17th, so to tell you the truth, the last thing I am planning for is valentine's day; even though I love spending a romantic time with my husband whenever it's possible, so should it really be on the 13th or the 14th? Couldn't be before or after? Sure it could. The importance is to be happy and enjoy my time with him,  no matter where or when.
I can't forget when I was a teenager, how occupied I used to be with valentines day cards and valentines day activities- all the preparations and surprises I planned! I knew my husband since I was 19, and since then, we have spent the most romantic valentines ever!
When he was abroad- for almost 2 years-  I used to send his valentine day card, gift, and decoration to his best friend and plan the whole set up with him. Oh poor guy! He had to organize the whole thing, light up the candles, decorate the room so my boyfriend (husband) could get as surprised as I wanted him to be. Once, I accidentally sent my husband a sms with all the details instead of sending it to his roommate, and to wipe the mess I invented endless stories about this particular sms. Well, at the end, all my efforts went down the drain when Hani, his roommate, was off, the day the package arrived, and my boyfriend( husband) received it!!!!!!!  Silly days!

While surfing today, I found this card that could be easily hand crafted

It is nice to handmade the gifts you will offer for valentine's day, and this card is truly easy. All you need is:

• Valentine's ribbon
• Colored Carton Board
• Glue
• Silver Pen
• Couple of decoration of your choice to spice it a little
• Scissors
• Pencil

This could make a nice valentines day craft, that you and your kids could prepare for your husband or another loving member of the family. Remember, that our main goal in How to be Super Mom, is to encourage you to constantly try to spend more time with your children, and allow them to participate in all the action. Whether you like it or not, Valentine's day is- in its own special way- a holiday that kids love to celebrate. And what could be better than trying to craft this valentine day card together?!

Now a quick, delicious, sexy recipe is what you need to prepare for that evening. After you put the kids to sleep, the last think you will need is a kitchen full of dirty pots; so an easy recipe and a glass of wine will do the trick.

This picture was posted by Rebecca D. on allrecipes.com and I thought that it will make one of the greatest valentine day recipes. All you need are halved strawberries, fresh whipped cream and dark chocolate.
Enjoy your Valentine ladies!

List of Blogs Helping Every Supermom for Kindergarten School Readiness

Your loved one is getting bigger every day and you must be getting worries about how to prepare for kindergarten. As a super mom, you will need to be sure that he is getting ready for school.Therefore, a list of requirements must be completed, in order for your child to have an easy transition, such as solid social skills, knowing his alphabet and many more essential abilities that we will cite in a further post.
Today, How to be Super Mom decided to introduce you to other helpful blogs, which will provide you with additional information on how to get ready for kindergarten.
These materials will include: 

• Different kind of readiness checklist for kindergarten that every supermom should prepare before sending her loved one off to school.

1. Checklist for Kindergarten
2. Kindergarten Readiness & School Skills Checklist
3. Kindergarten Readiness Checklist and More
4. Checklist for Kindergarten Readiness
5. Kindergarten Readiness: How to Know if Your Child is Ready to Go

• Various methods, every super mom should adopt, to help your child resolve social issues, in order to achieve a smooth and successful transition.

1. How to Know Your Child is Ready for Kindergarten
2. Hispanic Preschoolers Show Strong Social Skills, Literacy Lags
3. Reach Higher: Kindergarten Readiness
4. Kindergarten Readiness Activities: Social Skills
5. Kindergarten Readiness: Are Shy Kids at an Academic Disadvantage?

• A number of blogs, selected by How to be Super Mom, among a long list of similar sites, which will help you learn how to teach your child numbers.

1. Flash Cards and Kindergarten Readiness
2. Kindergarten Readiness Rocks! 1 to 1 Correspondence
3. Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Adds More Math
4. New Math Activity Calendar: August is Kindergarten Readiness Month

• Children should be able to communicate with the teacher and others as well as understand what is being taught or explained to them.  Language skills can include knowing the alphabet and recognizing letters on the page, but they are not limited to just that.

1. Parents’ Guide to Early Brain Development and Kindergarten Readiness
2.  Kindergarten Readiness– Enroll or Wait?
3. Kindergarten Readiness Skills
4. School Readiness, Early Achievement , and the Role of English Language Proficiency for Children in Low-Income Immigrant Families
5. Play Contributes to  School Readiness

• A large number of activities to help your loved one get ready for his first year of school. Kids will most likely enjoy these activities and not even realize they are getting ready to go to school.  Encourage your child to use their creativity as you do these activities together.

1. Some Handy Ideas for Kindergarten Readiness: Painting
2. Fun Number Writing Activities
3. Farah Lokey MD Discusses Kindergarten Readiness and How to Prime your Child for a Successful Admission to School
4. Reading is Most Important Activity
5. Kindergarten Readiness Playgroup & Summer Practice Handouts

How to Help Your Child Deal with Disappointments

In a society full of successful achievements, the chance to teach your child how to deal with disappointments is becoming far more difficult. Consider a canceled play date or an incident where occurs a toy breakage an opportunity to help your loved one grow through disappointment, instead of just creating a quick solution to spear him from experiencing these feelings. If you don’t teach him to deal with dissatisfaction every now and then, you will be shielding him from developing crucial skills that he will need, during the coming years, to face the dark moments of life.
Supermom, there are many easy tips to follow in order to help your child become stronger when faced by a distressful moment, and teach him how to face unhappiness. How to be Super Mom will provide you with the best article, to simplify your task as a parent and help you raise your children in a psychological, healthy way. 

Respect his feelings
 
His problems might seem small and lame comparing to the big picture of life but what is making him sad is of a huge importance to him. Don’t ignore his feelings by telling him that everything will be just fine, instead help him express his feeling to you, let him talk about how disappointed he is; learning to identify and transmit feelings is a vital lesson you can help your child acquire.

Project his feeling

Imagine yourself in the same situation to be able to acknowledge your children’s feelings. Once you recognize, the impact of such disappointment and its effect on their emotions, you will offer a better support and find the best solutions to get them out of their distress. 

Teach your child how to find the positive side of every problem

« Après la pluie, le beau temps », a great quote holding the same meaning as every cloud has a silver lining. Super mom, if you think deeply, you will always be able to find the good side of every misfortunate event. From one side you will be giving him the skills to grow up as an optimist, and from the other side, you will help him deal with discontent when he learns how to turn things around to his best interest.


One additional piece of advice: a child is like a sponge, he absorbs way more when he’s fresh and young so consider this as an opportunity to work on his personality, helping him become a stronger, optimist person. Compare his brain to smooth clay dough, which can be easily manipulated. Any wrong step will ruin his personality, that is why every super mom is advised to intensify her readings from the moment she conceive, to learn the best way to raise an intelligent happy child.
Be sure that with How to be Super Mom, you will always find the best and easiest parenting tips ever.

How to be Super Mom Italian Garlic Chicken Soup with Parmesan Croutons

Chicken soup is known as the nature’s penicillin, it is recognizable for its strong positive powers on our health. Whenever you catch a cold the first remedy you would think about is Chicken soup and in fact many conducted studies along the years have showed that it does indeed help clear clogged airways and provide us with a lot of energy.

Chicken soup recipes are numerous; each person has its own way of preparing it depending on his favorite ingredients.  When some might add noodles, carrots and potatoes others might want to make Italian style soup adding pasta, basil and a dash of Mozzarella on top.

We will give you one amazingly delicious chicken soup recipe that is definitely worth trying. Whenever it’s snowing, and the weather is cold nothing could gather a family around the table and draw a smile on their face like our delightful soup recipe.

Italian Garlic Chicken Soup with Parmesan Croutons

Besides the tremendous effect of Chicken soup on our health, Garlic is considered as the most powerful remedies of all time. This recipe is a blend of rich flavors and powerful ingredients and would surely become one of your family’s traditional meals.

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 40 minutes
Serves 5

1-Ingredients

For the soup

3 tablespoons olive oil
1 medium sliced leek
25 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
2 medium potatoes, diced into small cubes
64 fl oz chicken stock
8 baby yellow squash, halved
3 zucchini, cut into thick slices
1 skinless boneless chicken breast (10 Oz), cut into large cubes
¼ cup lemon juice
3 tablespoons shredded fresh basil

For the parmesan croutons

2 slices white bread
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons finely grated Parmesan

2-Directions

Heat the oil in a large pan, add the leek and garlic, keep stirring for 3 minutes or until golden.

Add potatoes then cook over medium heat for 12minutes before adding one quarter of the stock (16 fl. Oz). Bring to the boil then simmer for 10 minutes or until potatoes are cooked through.

Remove from heat and allow it to slightly cool before puréeing in a food processor.

Pour the rest of the chicken stock into the same pan and bring to the boil. Add the pasta, squash and zucchini, along with the purée, and simmer for 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, in a side pan, sauté the chicken for 5 minutes allowing them to get a brownish golden color.

When the pasta is soft, add the sautéed chicken and cook for 15 minutes. Add the lemon juice and basil and season to taste with salt and ground black pepper.

Remove the crusts form the white bread, slice into ½ inch squares, mix them with olive oil and parmesan and fry them in a pan until the croutons are browned all over.  Sprinkle them over your soup and  bon appétit!