Most people don’t think of crafts when they think about baseball season. The few people who do have realized how much better the sport can be if you put a little bit of creativity into the act of watching it. If you are a big baseball fan and like to have parties on game days, then themed crafts are right for you. You can also use the crafts for kid’s birthday parties as well. You will certainly be a popular parent after that.
Most kids are finicky when it comes to eating green vegetables. They have their favorites and then there are the ones that they won’t consume at any cost. If your little one won’t even try anything green, learn ideas to get them to eat it and enjoy the flavor. Today, we’ll be starting with broccoli.
The quickest way to convince your child to eat broccoli is to add it to a dish that they already like. If your child has never tried broccoli, this will make it easier still. The taste of the other foods will mask the taste of the broccoli. Broccoli doesn’t taste bad, but it does need some sprucing up to taste better.
Mothers. Much has been written about, dedicated to, analyzed, scrutinized and attributed to this pillar of our existence. Over the years, the cliché of the patient on the couch being asked “Why do you hate your mother?” has become as familiar as Toll House® cookies and Goodnight Moon.
We blame the ‘refrigerator mothers’ of the 50’s, working mothers in the 70’s, we point fingers at coddling, aloofness, guilt, rigidity, permissiveness. Mother’s it seems, have fought a losing battle over the years.
I admit, I did my share of “mother blame” through the therapy-laden decades in which I raised my children.
Ever since the book The Cat in the Hat was written, children of all ages have been enamored with it. They love the story and how simple and fun it is. They wish that they had a cat in a hat of their very own. While you may not be able to give them something like that, you can still do fun projects and crafts with your kids so that they have fun. This will also get them to be creative and to use their imagination, which is an important part of being a kid.
As a mom of three little ones, sun protection is an important theme in our home. Especially during the brutally hot days of summer when there is little relief from potentially hazardous rays. Let’s talk first about what sun protection is.
Sun protection is simply guarding yourself and others from the adverse effects of sunlight. Aside from the hazards of heat, the sun poses the danger of sunburn, which can permanently damage the skin and cause skin cancer.