You may already have heard the warnings: Don’t overcharge your mobile phone. Make sure you unplug it from the charger after it reaches 100%. Don’t leave it charging overnight. Or else. The direness implicit in those imperatives may be overblown, but they're not paranoid conspiracy dictums — you still shouldn't overcharge your phone. Here's why. Mobile phones contain a rechargeable lithium-ion (or li-ion) battery. Li-ion batteries charge faster than traditional rechargeable batteries. That’s why you can plug your iPhone or Android phone into a charger, and revving it up to at least an 80% charge happens fairly quickly. But as we all know, our smartphone battery charges don’t last long. We’re

A few weeks ago I had an opportunity to view the brand new West Stadium Club at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers football stadium. While speaking with Blake Pallansch, Premium Sales Account Executive, I casually mentioned Tampa Bay Moms Group, how many members we had, how amazing we were and how much we love and support our Tampa Bay Buccaneers! To show their appreciation, the Bucs are offering TBMG moms a group discount for the October 29th game against the Charlotte, NC Panthers which is their Breast Cancer Awareness Day. This will make tickets around 20-25% off and we will need at least 10 people to participate in order to receive the discount. If you'd like to purchase the discounted tickets

As with most moms I tend to worry about the things beyond my control when it comes to my kids health and safety. I worry about things happening at school, I worry they will get hurt outside, I worry they will get sick, I worry about pretty much every scenario you can imagine. I don't let this stop my kids from living normal lives. I don't do the helicopter mom thing (too much) but I also do take precautions to protect them when I can. Which is why I started using Mosquito Authority... The thought of my child (or even me) getting a mosquito born illness that I could protect us against is a nightmare. When it comes to mosquitoes the only ones that bite are the females but there are plenty of t

It’s important to focus on yourself, but spending quality alone time with your significant other matters equally as much—especially now that there’s more of you. One of the major challenges of spending alone time is the amount of time parenting requires. A 30 year study found that the level of satisfaction of couples with children decreased twice as much when compared to couples without children. Conversations with your spouse may revolve around parenting more so than topics of mutual interest that once connected both of you. When you can’t change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails. When was the last time both you and your spouse had quality alone time away from the kids to reconn

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It’s hard to believe it’s only been a week since we finished boarding up the windows to our house with any wood we could find, emptied interior closets in case we needed to hide, bought last minute ice, bread and snacks. It’s been a week since we were glued to the tv switching from one station to the next watching Hurricane Irma head north, west, north, east, west, west, west, then jog east at the last minute taking the worst part of the storm away from Tampa. We sat in horror as the pictures and videos came in from the devastation of the islands Irma decimated not knowing if we were next. It’s hard to believe that in a few hours it will have been a week since we stood outside, watching th