aka How To Get Your Kids To Sit Still Without Yelling at Them Constantly Restaurants are right on the money when they give a kid a placemat with puzzles and games on it. Here are my kids eating food when they have something to do at the table: Here's … [Read more...]
Second Breakfast Is Another Chance for a Great Start
A day in my glamorous life. There's really not ever much of a lull in my schedule. Maybe Sundays, when I am too exhausted from the frenzy of the week. A typical weekday goes like this: I get up at 6AM to make lunches and have a little quiet time alone. Then breakfast, the mad … [Read more...]
5 Tips To Help Introduce Your Kids To New Foods
Once upon a time my kids ate everything. They were babies. Clean slates. Everything I fed to them, they ate. Okay maybe that's my nostalgia at work here, but I remember fondly Brady gleefully stealing broccoli off my plate when he finished his own. I remember Kyle mashing avocado … [Read more...]
Make Breakfast a Great Start For Big Days
Touchdown! While millions of you are amped up for the finale of professional football in America, our family is smack in the middle of flag football season. My kids are on different teams, so that means two different practices (one on each side of town) every week, and two … [Read more...]
Breakfast For Lunch!
My two boys are so different - they have opposite eating habits. One wolfs down his meals as fast as possible, the other takes his sweeeet time. One loves to eat breakfast, the other can take it or leave it. I worry that he isn’t getting enough fuel to learn and play. But … [Read more...]
