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Theresea Hughes July 12, 2011 |
“Positive Parenting Tips” newsletter July 2011Thank you for subscribing to our toddlers activity & kids games monthly newsletter
INDEX: Inspiring Quotes Toddlers Activities & Games Easy Kids Recipe Child Arts & Crafts Activities: Positive Parenting Resources Funny Mother's Day Quotes Sponsored Resources Editor’s Note / Humour / new free books Inspiring Quotes:
"Nothing happens unless first a dream."
- Carl Sandburg
Kids Activities:
Not only do kids of all ages love to play games, games are a creative and inexpensive way to entertain children. With a little imagination you will soon have them making up their own games! Running Game - Wall to wall
Rules This toddlers activity game is also known as Den to den, Top and bottom or Running across. The aim of this game is to cross from one place to another without being caught. One person is IT and stands in the middle of the space between two walls or bases. Everyone else lines up along one base or wall. When IT gives the signal, the other players have to try and run across the space to the other base. If they are touched by IT then they must go into the middle and try to touch or tig the other players. If they reach the other base or wall, they can wait while they count to 10 and then have to run back to the first base or wall and so on until everyone has been caught. • Once you have started running from one side to another you must keep going, you can not turn back. What you need An open space to cross from one place to another (such as across a playground from wall to wall) Visit for our Free Kids Games & Activities from A to Z Easy Kids Recipe:Gluten Free Carrot Cake Recipe Staying away from gluten is difficult for those who suffer from gluten intolerance or wheat sensitivity. Gluten is in everything and most flours traditionally used for baking. Many of the treats and cakes you eat everyday no longer are available when you are wheat intolerant. If you have a sweet tooth like myself and are intolerant to gluten, you need to have a few sweet recipes in reserve which offer you a little treat for all your hard work you put in, avoiding gluten. Carrot Cake is a delicous sweet cake, whose name is probably its worst enemy when it comes to being accepted by the masses. For those who know how good carrot cake can be , here is a verison which is gluten free. 1/2 cup Gluten Free Flower( Combination of Tapioca, Rice, Potato flour) Grate carrots and squeeze over some lemon juice to keep them from going brown. Beat eggs and sugar together then add sifted dry ingredients and everything else and mix! Greese and line a loaf tin pour in mixture and bake for 40-50 mins until golden brown on top at 180c
This cake is foolproof and really delicious!! If you are not Dairy intolerant you can make up cream cheese frosting to put on Cake as well. But I like it without frosting as well. If I make frosting, I prefer to make a light sweetened cream cheese frosting. 1-8 ounce package cream cheese Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Its easier to soften the butter first. There is no exact amount to use for sugar so just experiment and add to taste.Spread the frosting ontop of carrot cake. Have this carrot cake for dessert with frosting and vanilla ice cream, or for breakfast. I have baked it about 20 times and everyone raves about it! Enjoy and rememebr, just because its gluten free doesnt mean it cant taste good. Note: Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley or any product made from derivitives of these grains. Gluten gives bread elasticity, however many flours are availble which are gluten free.Buck wheat, Tapioca, Rice , Besan, Quinoa, and Potato flour are Gluten free flours. Hayden Branston is the owner of Gluten Free Health
http://www.GlutenFreeHealth.com
A Growing resource for Gluten Free Living Child Arts & Crafts Activities:
Straw Painting This is a great creative activity with lots of wonderful color. Your child will enjoy straw painting as they watch their master piece form many wonderful patterns. Its lots of fun with magical art work, your child will be surprised and totally enjoy every colorful drop. Lay newspaper underneath the work, to reduce risk of splatter.
Positive Parenting Resources:
3 Parenting Tips To Calm Your Afterwork Routine
Is the after-school, after-work routine creating a crazy,
chaotic homelife for your family? Will all the end-of-the-day
pressures that descend on the typical family these days, it's no
wonder parents feel frazzled and out-of-control. I've been parenting for over 2 decades and have 4 busy
children. Here are my top 3 parenting tips for putting the calm
back into your family's evening routine. 1. Plan it out. Sometimes chaos comes from everyone needing to unwind at once.
Of course, your kids have very little maturity to deal with the
fatigue and over-stimulation that comes with a typical day. As
the parent, you have to be willing to delay your own need for
calm and get the rest of the troops in line first. When your
family has a sense of order and control, you'll feel much
calmer, too. Start with planning out what needs to happen in your evening.
Baths, homework, dinner, sports activities all need to be
written down. If you attempt to do laundry or cleaning in the
evening, write that down, too. Next write down the amount of time each of those items takes to
do (be honest and reasonable). Now add up the times and compare
the total to what time you actually have between the hours of
after-work and bedtime. If you're like many families, something's gotta give! This
simple exercise will help you see why you are frustrated day in
and day out. This is where the rubber meets the road; to have a
calmer household you'll need to make the activities you desire
fit into your schedule. This often means cutting something out! Trust me, you'll never miss whatever you let go of. Take back
the time to actually hug and communicate with your children by
giving up the activities that don't directly contribute to
family growth. For example, a lot of great conversations can be
had between parents and children while cleaning a bathroom. And
let's face it, cleaning bathrooms has to happen! But usually very little communication can happen between you
and your child while they're on the sports field. Don't get me
wrong, I've done plenty of sports over the years and know how
great they can be for teaching all types of values. But if your
family is reeling in chaos each evening, you're looking for
soothing parenting tips, not high-achievement ideas. 2. Streamline and get organized. Everyday activities like meal-planning can either produce joy
or chaos in a family's day. Do you have to spend time each
evening deciding what's for dinner, scrounging for ingredients
and feeling resentful you have to give up so much time to
something you don't want to do? Or do you just give in most evenings and either eat out or use
take-out food? This is fine if it's in your budget, but if it's
not, you are simply increasing your stress load which will
inevitably spill over into your family time. There are many effective menu-planning tools available today
that can cut your time in the kitchen. Honestly, a smart
parenting tip is to help you see that involving your kids in the
evening meal routine is one of the easiest ways to add calm to a
family. Depending upon their ages, children can help -- plan the meals. -- shop for the meals, understanding both budgetary and
nutritional concerns. -- set the table and help with the clean-up. -- cook the meals with supervision. The same goes for laundry and cleaning duties, too. If one
evening is laundry and cleaning night, then everyone pitches in
and that's the night for pizza. You'll feel less scattered when
the whole family is pulling together. Of course, these tasks will all go much faster once everyone is
trained, practiced and comes to expect that family involvement
is a part of the evening agenda. 3. Establish routines. I'm sure you've heard parenting tips like this one before and
for good reason. Unfinished homework, lost supplies, missing
articles of clothing, and forgotten lunches just add to the
chaos level in any home. So abolish them! Establish a place for
each family member's daily stuff (just a basket or bin will do
nicely) and remind daily to use them until habits are
established. Hey, you're going to have to be serious about this one, Mom or
Dad. My kids know I would even call them home from their
friends' houses simply to have them pick something up they
neglected to put away in the right place before they went off to
have fun. Over the top? Not when you remember your job as a parent is to
teach the types of habits that will produce appropriate adult
behavior someday. Trust me, you'll only have to do these kinds
of 'reminders' a handful of times. Your kids are very bright.
They'll get the message extremely quickly. Make a game with your kids about developing routines. -- Who can figure out the smartest way to put together a
lunchbox station in the kitchen? -- Who sets down to do their homework first, with no
complaining? -- Set a timer and see who can get their stuff ready for the
next day the fastest. -- Give little prizes for shaving off time in doing everyday
duties. Set the rule that everyone in the household does work before
play. You'll be amazed at the change in your home's stress
levels. One step at a time. Parenting tips come and go, but the basics in what a family
needs don't change. If you're looking to calm down the evenings
in your home, take a few minutes to plan out what's important to
you, streamline your processes, and establish routines that save
time and sanity. And your reward? How about a quiet time before bed? About The Author: Colleen Langenfeld has been parenting for
over 26 years and helps other moms enjoy mothering more at
http://www.paintedg old.com. Visit her website and pick up more
parenting tips at
http://www.paintedg old.com/Kids/ parenting- tip.html Funny Mother's Day Quotes:
• "It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him." - Helen Rowland Sponsored resources:Our Sponsors and Affiliates are what keep this newsletter and our website self help books, articles and resources free to you, so we appreciate your support when purchasing from our sponsors.Get some gift shopping ideas right here!
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Another Goody For The Oldtimers My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning. My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in icepack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli. Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then. The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system. We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym)
instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.. Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym. Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything. I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself. I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed! We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked. Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat. We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we got home. I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck. To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that? We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive? LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T- SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING
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