My friend Tonya has helped me immensely with the food issues I face with my kids! WE ALL FACE THEM! I have 4 so I have 4x's her 2x's the issues yet she is a plethora of information on how to deal in a positive way!
She is active about finding books, online recipes and ideas from friends for introducing new foods.
She manipulates recipes to better represent her kids tastes.
She rocks :)
She recommended Rachel Ray's TOP 30 , 30 minute meals for kids.
I love it. Now I have found only 4 recipes that work in my family HOWEVER that is 4 more than I had in my arsenal last week. Only one did I need to change a bit for our tastes.
Please try this book worth the $$ Under $10 at Amazon (PS if you are frequent shopper she also recommends the FREE shipping for a minimal cost membership on Amazon :)
http://www.amazon.com/Kid-Food-Rachael-30-Minute-Meals/dp/1891105221/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267837160&sr=8-1
Friday, March 5, 2010
Ringing, Singing and Blinking...
Ok remember when we were little (some of my friends this does not refer to your young ass) the 5 ring plastic or wooden toy where the red was the largest and so on smaller until you get to the blue? I loved that toy and it was one of my VERY first purchases when my 16 yr old was born! you learn stacking, colors, smaller and bigger, fine motor skills and HOW TO PLAY QUIETLY alone or with a parent. My husband used to make up games with the rings like put them on the girls feet so they would try and get them off (long term entertainment for both parent and child ;) or as they got older he would sit facing them open legged and roll the rings back and forth....http://toy-terminal.com/fisher-price-rock-a-stack-review/ you can see the toy here.
Now toy companies have ruined this simple and perfect toy while warping our children's minds. Today the toy is busy, flashy and makes loud sounds? WHY I ask do we do this? Ultimately because companies (especially pharmaceutical ones) get greedy, they want more and more $$ so they have to try and "improve" on something old to increase sales so the upper management and higher gets more and more bonuses etcetera .
What doe changing that toy symbolize? My friend Isa said it the best today: Its like preparing them to be ready for Vegas. HAHAHA we are giving our children ADHD. Take a simple toy and make it beeping, singing, flashing and you have created a mini vegas in a toy and overwhelmed your child. You KNOW some of you bought that newer version thinking it would make your kids smarter or you'd be cooler or MAYBE so you wouldn't have to play as along with them and it would grab their attention longer.
If you ask me, you harmed your child and encouraged exactly what's wrong with Corporate America and Kids today. Now your child's toys all make noise and flash and you have created a child who NEEDS mass amounts of stimulation to keep their attention? Good work. Then send them to public school and ask them to sit quietly for hours a day. more to come
Now toy companies have ruined this simple and perfect toy while warping our children's minds. Today the toy is busy, flashy and makes loud sounds? WHY I ask do we do this? Ultimately because companies (especially pharmaceutical ones) get greedy, they want more and more $$ so they have to try and "improve" on something old to increase sales so the upper management and higher gets more and more bonuses etcetera .
What doe changing that toy symbolize? My friend Isa said it the best today: Its like preparing them to be ready for Vegas. HAHAHA we are giving our children ADHD. Take a simple toy and make it beeping, singing, flashing and you have created a mini vegas in a toy and overwhelmed your child. You KNOW some of you bought that newer version thinking it would make your kids smarter or you'd be cooler or MAYBE so you wouldn't have to play as along with them and it would grab their attention longer.
If you ask me, you harmed your child and encouraged exactly what's wrong with Corporate America and Kids today. Now your child's toys all make noise and flash and you have created a child who NEEDS mass amounts of stimulation to keep their attention? Good work. Then send them to public school and ask them to sit quietly for hours a day. more to come
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Doctor Offices
I waited an hour. Need I say more? Now I begin, my teenager is in school during the day. The babies at the pediatricians office are not in school and have NO class to return to. Yes, the mom may have a pedicure she desperately feels she needs or an appointment to have her eye brows sugared that she cannot miss (and by looking at her I might agree). BUT I booked this check up a week ago, and YES I do take into consideration a great deal of the ped's business is taking the daily sick calls and working those sick kids in I understand that kind of necessary juggling of schedules BUT AN HOUR?
So when the Doctor arrives isn't it my right to ask politely to discuss the late issue before we move forward into the check up? HELL YES IT IS. Do I? YES I DO. I say to the lovely Doctor "I am very upset at having to wait an hour is this a front office issue, a scheduling issue or was there some sort of emergency?" The kind Doctor replies "oh no its just the front office said you were 15 minutes late so I took an appointment that was here 15 minutes early in front of you".
Mind you we were 6 minutes late HOWEVER the bitch in front of me with the baby in for a well check up and caterpillar eye brows signed in one space above me so they office staff took her back first! She was there at 9:45 for a 10am appointment. I was there at 9:46 for my 9:40 appointment. I accepted the doctors apology.
I then on my way out ensured that the office was CLEAR on how to CHECK the check in time against the persona actual appointment time BEFORE taking them back in the future.
So when the Doctor arrives isn't it my right to ask politely to discuss the late issue before we move forward into the check up? HELL YES IT IS. Do I? YES I DO. I say to the lovely Doctor "I am very upset at having to wait an hour is this a front office issue, a scheduling issue or was there some sort of emergency?" The kind Doctor replies "oh no its just the front office said you were 15 minutes late so I took an appointment that was here 15 minutes early in front of you".
Mind you we were 6 minutes late HOWEVER the bitch in front of me with the baby in for a well check up and caterpillar eye brows signed in one space above me so they office staff took her back first! She was there at 9:45 for a 10am appointment. I was there at 9:46 for my 9:40 appointment. I accepted the doctors apology.
I then on my way out ensured that the office was CLEAR on how to CHECK the check in time against the persona actual appointment time BEFORE taking them back in the future.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Frenemies
Last night I realized that while I *should* pray for good health, wealth & happiness of the people I dislike. This will help me to get well and become the spiritually fit woman God intends for me and to become more in tune with the love in the world and more at peace in my own head... I would *rather* pray for them to get what they deserve ASAP!
Now I have located the middle of the road place I can live with and yet not go against the love and peace I am looking for I *will* pray for my frenemies to have peace and serenity asap!
This gets me what I want because if they are HAPPY and PEACEFUL they won't bother me and yet I am wishing loving things for them and I can ask for it asap because it benefits them faster too :)
<3
Now I have located the middle of the road place I can live with and yet not go against the love and peace I am looking for I *will* pray for my frenemies to have peace and serenity asap!
This gets me what I want because if they are HAPPY and PEACEFUL they won't bother me and yet I am wishing loving things for them and I can ask for it asap because it benefits them faster too :)
<3
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