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Various Ways to Take Special Care of Your Special Child

Children are an important part of any family and thus their proper care plays a crucial role in the prosperity of any family. For better health of children, it is very important that the family ensure that the children get an adequate sleep and that too without any problem and discomfort. This is only possible when the mattresses that are being used for the child is comfortable and cozy. Proper and adequate sleep for the child ensures that the whole family gets a proper rest because if the child does not sleep properly at night, he can put the whole family in discomfort. 

The things and the way remain the same, but we need to use the stuff effectively and in a proper manner. There are certain ways through which the children at home can be given special care, and their health can be ensured, these are discussed as follows:  

  1. GIVE A HEALTHY SLEEP TO YOUR CHILD

In order to make sure that all the members of your family derive the right kind of sleep, it is quite essential that quality products are being used. It ensures that sleeping off the whole family becomes a good experience. This contributes to a healthy family over the longer run. There are various types of mattresses, that are available in the market but there are specific companies, which do have expertise in making an efficient and comfortable bed and mattresses for babies.  One of the companies is Nectar, which is specialized in Sleep Products like Pillows, Mattresses, Bed sheets etc. The company is well known for its sleep products, which offer a great deal of comfort and coziness to every respective customer who purchases its products. The products of the company are designed in a way that your children will get the best of comfort in the house. This will mean healthiest of sleep for them. This can lead to better health and overall prosperity among the family in general.  

  1. THE EFFECTIVE AND QUALITATIVE PRODUCTS

The quality of the Nectar products is quite premium. It is a leader in the mattress and bed sheet industry. It is on the top in the market for its qualitative raw materials used by the company for the manufacturing of these products. The mattress provided by the company consists of cotton and jute, which helps, in providing the best of the sleep to both children and parents. The mattresses of the company are made up of high-density memory foam, which is available at affordable prices in comparison to another mattress. The products of the company are recognized widely for sleep due to its quality. The company has tested its mattresses through 365-night trial and it is the only company to do so in the industry to gain a widespread confidence of the consumer in the longer run. It also offers a lifetime warranty. 

  1. BENEFITS OF PROPER SLEEP ON HEALTH

Your family members can achieve various benefits easily. In terms of health, take adequate sleep on a regular basis. The various advantages of efficient sleep are right kind of health for you and your children. They will feel more energetic and enthusiast throughout the day. The individuals who take an adequate amount of sleep are active, as compared to people who do not take an adequate amount of sleep. 

Various studies have shown that effective as well as adequate sleep at night improves brain functioning by 15% and thus the importance of proper sleep cannot be ignored. Therefore, right sleep has various health benefits as well and thus it shall be kept at the priority of every family head while framing the day-to-day schedule of the family. 

  1. DISADVANTAGES OF INADEQUATE SLEEP

If the person does not take proper sleep, one can have serious health issues. It is essential to avoid the different types of health issues like possible chronic sleep loss, also called an insomniac, mood swings, and irritations. These can cause various kinds of issues in the personal and professional life of an individual in the longer run. Thus, it is far better to avoid all these issues by spending a fair amount on the qualitative sleep products that will benefit not only your family’s health but their future as well over a period. These disadvantages can be overcome by effectively through using right sleeping products within the home. 

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Dear Holly: This is My Favorite Picture of You This Week, Lounging Like a Preteen in the Backseat

2 and a half years.

Sometimes after I take a picture of you, I see you in a different way than I have before. This was the case when I snapped a picture of you last week while we were on our family trip to Destin in the 2019 Chevy Traverse.

Even though you are only 2 and a half, in that picture, I easily catch a glimpse of you years from now:

Relaxed, having fun, just chilling out while looking so cute.

Behind my jacket which is hanging over the top of your seat, you can see some of our shopping bags from when we went to the outlets.

It’s as if I am seeing you a decade from now, on the way back from you getting to spend all your own birthday money on clothes.

I love this picture.

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Jack: This is My Favorite Picture of You This Week, Throwing a Sea Cucumber Back into the Ocean

8 years.

Dear Jack,

For me, this picture of you perfectly captures who you are now, at age 8.

It was our first morning out on the beach last week in Destin to celebrate your birthday. The beach was covered in sea cucumbers, most of them appearing to still be alive, but barely.

I suggested that you throw as many as you could back into the sea.

Fortunately, you had your trusty shovel with you, which served as the perfecting launching pad.

While I’m not sure how many lives you saved that morning, I do know that the ones you threw back definitely stood a better chance of survival, had you not come along to rescue them.

I think it’s really cool how in this picture, not only is the landscape beautiful in a way not typically associated with Florida, but how you can see the sea cucumber flying through the air as the immediate result of your throw, still in motion.

This is a memory that I will always associate with your 8th birthday.

Love,

Daddy

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More Stories from Our Family’s Road Trip to Destin, Florida in the 2019 Chevy Traverse AWD Premier

I have no problem admitting that the pictures and stories I share here on my blog and on my social media serve as my family’s highlight reel. There is no shame in that.

As the default photographer for my family of four, one of my roles in our household is to constantly create and maintain a collection of our best memories as they happen in real time. With all the chaos in this life, it’s important for us to celebrate what is good.

So no, you’re not going to see pictures of any meltdowns due to lack of sleep or food while on our family’s recent trip to Destin, Florida in the 2019 Chevy Traverse for my son’s 8th birthday. Nope, just the silly smiles and good times.

For example, I can’t stop thinking about how hours after the fact, I learned that my daughter had placed stickers on my butt.

That’s right. I had been driving around Destin and hanging out at Starbucks with my family, without realizing that dozens of tiny Paw Patrol stickers covered not only my shirt, which I was aware of, but also pretty much everywhere else.

While my wife had been scurrying around the LOFT outlet, I was keeping the kids at bay in the meantime. Fortunately, we made the right moral decision to allow our daughter to buy a package of over 300 stickers from the dollar aisle at Target earlier that day.

I just crouched there in the middle of the LOFT, sort of lethargically, while doing my best to keep the kids from getting into too much trouble.

Later that day, as we wrapped up our outlet shopping spree (amazingly only spending about $300 total), we finished up at the Bass Pro Shop. It just so happened that Santa was there too!

I loved how my daughter just walked right up to him for her free picture, with a huge smile on her face; not afraid at all. Granted, that didn’t mean she was going to actually smile for the picture though.

And speaking of free attractions in Destin, we couldn’t resist seeing the gators over at Fudpucker’s. Of course, my son did enough up spending some of his birthday money there at the souvenir shop.

The last thing we did before we headed back home to Tennessee was to visit one of my wife’s brothers (there are 10 kids in that family!) in Pensacola. We enjoyed lunch at Jaco’s, our token place to stop to eat in that town.

Afterwards, we walked around the marina for over an hour, allowing the kids to burn off as much energy as they could, before beginning the 7 hour return trip to the Nashville area.

It worked.

Much needed sleep was obtained.

Seriously, now that I’ve had a chance to look back on all these pictures and stories from our trip, I can clearly see: We truly had some good times as a family.

Thank you Chevy for helping make our trip so awesome!

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Our Family’s DESTINation Family Road Trip for Our 8 Year Old Son’s Birthday, in the 2019 Chevy Traverse AWD Premier

My wife and I gave our son a choice: Would you want to have your 8th birthday party here in Nashville with your friends? Or… would you choose to go on a road trip to Destin, Florida with your family for half a week?

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Turns out, my son is a smart kid. Yeah, he chose the Florida road trip.

I admit: Being a daddy blogger has its perks- like Chevy loaning us a 2019 Traverse AWD Premier with a full tank of gas.

The very first time I worked with Chevy was 7 years ago when our family got to drive a Volt from Naples to Key West. That was also around the time Chevy sent me to Detroit with a bunch of other daddy bloggers to tour the facility where the Traverse is tested and built.

Seven years ago, my son was only one year old. Now he has a 2 and a half year old sister. Therefore, the Chevy Traverse is that much more relevant to our family. It just so happened that the main gift our son asked for was a new Kindle- and the Traverse came equipped with WiFi!

Perfect for a long road trip, for sure.

We totally appreciated all the cargo space, as we sort of overpacked by default, hauling not only swimming clothes along with winter clothes, but also our son’s birthday presents.

When we go on long road trips like this one (7 hours), the kids appreciate being in their own rows. Our daughter can fall asleep easier and our son gets to be in his own world. And up front, the parents actually get to have some uninterrupted conversations while SiriusXM’s Alt Nation plays in the background.

It’s always a gamble when staying in hotels overnight with a 2 and a half year old, but fortunately where we stayed at the Pelican Beach Resort, our daughter absolutely loved her “room”, as she called it: She occupied the bottom of the bunk beds which were built into the walls; each bed having it’s own TV.

Oh, and then there was the beach itself…

By the way, in case you didn’t catch it, the picture above is a play on words: Our last name is Shell and there are 4 of us!

Leading up to our son opening his birthday gifts, I hid a “gold bar” in the sand for him to find. However, he immediately figured out it was just a toy I planted there.

Here’s the video I made as it happened:

As for his birthday cake, we simply pressed the OnStar button and had the directions to Whole Foods sent to our GPS, and let our son pick out a gourmet cupcake for himself; meanwhile my wife and I shared one ourselves.

So this is what happens when as the parents, you decide that helping your child celebrate their birthday is more fun if you have a “DESTINation” road trip instead of a typical birthday party.

The right decision was definitely made here!

Thanks for reading my blog today. If you liked this story about our family’s recent road trip to Destin in the 2019 Chevy Traverse, stay tuned… I have a sequel blog post with more pictures and stories from our adventure!