Posts tagged ‘mid week ramblings’

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27 more days until the election!
Scholastic News Online has an amazing site put together to help teach your children learn about the electoral college, campaigning, the candidates and issues, political parties, how the government works and “tips fro the pros” through already put together lesson plans, audio and online games.
They have [...]

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What kind of personal journaling do you?
What about your mother, grandmother, great grandmother?
What journaling do you DO for your children?
What do you have your children do on their own?
I was in the habit of writing my girls weekly (since they are to young to actually write) until our vacation [...]

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These Mini Candy Apples are the perfect size and super easy to make.
1. Cut all your lollipop sticks in half. Get the rest of your supplies: melon baller, toppings, apples and cupcake liners.

2. Suprisingly the butterscotch chips were the fav!

3. Scoop out a ball of melon with your melon baller [...]

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After School Snacks

Snacks can and should be a part of every child’s balanced diet
An afternoon snack is not just an indulgence: active kids with fast metabolisms and small-capacity tummies need a between-meal pick-me-up on a regular basis. It can be 6 hours or longer [...]

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It is so crazy to me that where I live it is back to school time, must be because winter lasted so long summer didn’t get a real chance.
So the least you can do to make it up to your kids is to send them off with some yummy healthy [...]

I had a mother send me a question about snacktime ideas on the run. Here are our favorites to use on the run, during a long car drive, or when you just don’t have to time prepare something better!

All natural vegetarian snack
Baby’s love it
Baked puffed rice & corn
Spinach, kale, broccoli, cabbage, parsley
Wheat & Gluten Free

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Dollar Store Puzzles
One of my pet peeves, is for my kids to take care of the toys they have. Especially games, nothing is worse than going to play a game and half the pieces are ruined or missing. Puzzles are the hardest, unless they are wood, they get lost, [...]

I wish I could say I came up with the saying, “Don’t Dummy Down Your Kid’s Food” but alas someone said it on one of my favorite summertime reality TV shows, The Next Food Network Star.
But ya know, it is really something I live by. I refuse to “dummy down” my kids food.
One of my [...]

Well I knew it would come someday, it has started in my house, the obsession with every single child and their need for band-aids.
What is the rule in your house, vote away!

What is the rule in your house with Band-aids?

At any request, they can have one!

If I can tell they are really hurting, even if there [...]

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I wanted to share two somewhat conflicting views and advice on boundaries, rules and discipline with our infant and toddlers. I would love to hear your input, opinions and suggestions.
I had a friend summarize the Babywise approach to this as explained in the Book Babywise 2:
Just like in the first Babywise, the [...]