Articles for parents
Quick Pantry Lunch Ideas
by Menus4Moms
It is lunch time and the kids are hungry. Take a look in your pantry for some quick and filling lunch ideas. You will be surprised with how many last minute meal ideas you can come up with using the various cans and bags of dry goods stashed away in your kitchen cupboards.
Let's Play "Hide and Sneak" with Veggies!
by Deborah Taylor-Hough
Do you find yourself sitting by helplessly while your very own little picky eater works her way through every ounce of spaghetti sauce, picking out the almost microscopic bits of cooked onion? Do you wish there were a way to get little Johnny to eat more veggies than just the French fries at the local drive- thru? (Do those even count as veggies, anyway?).
Luring Your Kids into Eating Healthy School Lunches
by Michelle Stern
Feeding children is a lot like fishing
Kids Cooking From the Garden
by Peg Baron
Okay, so the kids have helped in the garden and grown lots and lots of vegetables. Now what? Besides eating all the peas as they pick them and gnawing on the carrots after the great fun of pulling them out of the ground, what
Revering the Crayon Marks
by Susie Cortright
It was one of those days when my husband left promising to return home a little early, and to bring with him a pizza. I had started the day, even, in one of those relatively rare but still very real moods in which the best I was going to be able to do in my role as a stay-at-home mom would be to fake a smile and turn my back, when necessary, to count to ten.
Kids' Snack Ideas
by Mary Ann Kelley
Kids are notoriously fickle. This week's favorite food may be tossed aside next week with an inexplicable, "I don't like them anymore." Moms on TheHomeSchoolMom in the Kitchen Yahoo Group are familiar with that frustration and have suggested the following snacks to help you find something that will keep the kids happy when last week's favorite is ancient history.
Kids School Lunches - 13 Alternatives To Promote Healthy Eating And Avoid Fast Food
by Helen Thompson
For parents, providing your kids with healthy, nutritional lunches that they find interesting can be quite a challenge. The "if it is good for you then it must be boring" mentality makes this particularly challenging and you have such favorites as lollies, sweets and fizzy drinks to compete with. Don't despair, it can be done and here are 13 alternatives to get you started.
8 Fun Ideas To Get Your Kids To Eat Their Veggies
by Susanne Myers
Do you have trouble getting your kids to eat their veggies? I sure do.
My daughter used to be great about trying and eating just about anything
Homemaking School for Children
by Monica Resinger
With it being summer vacation for the kids, a lot of us may be experiencing a messier house than usual. A solution to this would be to give the kids daily chores or, what I like to call it, homemaking school. Homemaking school will not only help the house stay tidier, but will also give your kids valuable lessons in housecleaning and responsibility that they need now and later in life.
Get your Family Racing to Complete Chores!
by Monica Resinger
My family went on a mini vacation a few years back which included a stay at a very nice hotel. During our stay, I admired how clean the room was and wished my home could be that clean. We had a long drive home and I thought about how I could start keeping my home that clean or close to it. The reason my house wasn't as clean as I liked was because I didn't do everything that needed to be done when it needed to be done-in other words, I didn't have a system.
Get Housekeeping Help By Keeping It Simple!
by Roxanna Ward
I do believe I've tried every option possible to recruit help around the house. I've tried withholding special items. I've tried paying good money for chores. I've even tried a little torture .. only joking. Few things have worked. Some things have not. But I have found that if you change back and forth from one good idea to another, help usually happens. When your family stops helping out around the house, try another method. Afterall, we all get bored with housework.