FAMILY, LIFESTYLE & HOME

Tips to Help Manage Your Kid’s Screen Time Parenting has always been tough, but when you add in the proliferation of social media, it’s not getting easy any time soon. In fact, the devices that are capturing your child’s attention, laptops, tablets, or personal handheld device, are now also the tools for school. This means […]

Learn Pet-Friendly Home Renovation Tips No matter the size of the home, the breadth of the home renovation, or the number of people or pets who live in the home, remodeling is disruptive. There are so many things to consider if you’re going to get it right. And for pet owners, you not only have […]

Tips to Designing an Energy Efficient Home When you buy a new home and you begin to think about furnishing and designing options, there’s a lot to consider. Chief among your considerations will be room design and setup, any architectural changes you might want to make, and certainly color changes or new trendy patterns for […]

Holiday Safety Tips to Help You Enjoy the Season The holidays are a time of celebration, love and charity. It’s the best time to spend time with with friends and family. But the truth is that all the celebrating can be a bit hectic, leaving us a little more distracted and stressed. The holidays actually […]

Avoid Thanksgiving Day Home Cooking Fires with These Tips When it comes to home insurance claims, the two biggest hazards are fire and water. So, Thanksgiving is a big “hold your breath” moment of the insurance industry because the holiday produces a bunch of home cooking fires. In fact, according to the National Fire Protection […]

Three Reasons to do Something that Scares You We are creatures of comfort. One of the ways we keep ourselves comfortable is by creating routines, and these routines are frequently designed to minimize risk and control stress. Sounds good, right? However, if we’re being honest, doing something that scares you may actually be the way […]

Working from Home with Children During the pandemic, many of us were asked to work from home, and that came with new challenges. The least of which was how to set up our home office. Now, working from home is much more common, but we’re still learning how to be productive from home. Especially for […]

Things to Consider When Running With Your Dog In just about every neighborhood you can see teams of people walking, jogging and riding bikes. What else is there really to do while we wait-out a shelter-in-place order. If you’re a runner, then you’re likely thinking of running with your dog. Before you take Skippy out […]

Four Simple Ways to Avoid Porch Pirates Are ready for some mind-blowing statistics? According to Pitney Bowes, there were 13 billion parcels shipped throughout the U.S. in 2018. Wow! It gets more staggering, according to Digital Commerce 360, consumers spent over $600 billion shopping online in 2019, representing a faster rate of increase than in […]

How to Properly Set Up Your Home Office Prior to the COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders, it was estimated that a quarter of the workforce was already working from home in some capacity. This makes sense given the vast improvements in communications technology and growth in the gig economy. It’s highly unlikely this trend will decline soon. […]