it's all in what works for your family

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Registered: 07-18-2009
it's all in what works for your family
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Sat, 07-18-2009 - 6:38pm

I don't believe that children that have parents that work outside of the house are at a disadvantage... I also don't believe that children that have a parent that stays at home somehow benifit.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 09-01-2009 - 2:15pm

For me, myself and my family...it is because I feel that my children learn best from repetition.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 09-01-2009 - 2:18pm

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PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Tue, 09-01-2009 - 2:19pm
We have a lot of one word reminders. Teens have short attention spans. Things like, "Homework." "Backpack" "Piano." They are shorthand for things like, "let's pay attention to the homework now, not the new magazines that just arrived," "Your backpack really doesn't belong on the kitchen island, now does it?" and "I think I told you you needed to get your practice minutes in BEFORE you got the phone back." Stuff like that.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 09-01-2009 - 2:19pm

I think for us.....2 or 3, whenever they moved from the tray from the highchair, I don't remember exactly when.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Tue, 09-01-2009 - 2:21pm
We took a kid with us on vacation this year who would never order anything except hamburgers and french fries. No skin off my nose, except we were eating at really good barbecue, seafood or ethnic places most of the time. Good food is just one more good thing I'd rather my kids not miss out on if I have any opportunity to introduce them to it.
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Registered: 03-06-2009
Tue, 09-01-2009 - 2:22pm
maybe -- but
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 09-01-2009 - 2:23pm

Because they aren't an adult and know how to act at all times, I don't expect my kids to be perfect in all situations, they forget or get up

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 09-01-2009 - 2:24pm

So if you try a new food, your child will also try one because you are trying the food?


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 05-19-2009
Tue, 09-01-2009 - 2:25pm
Yes, you got it baby! (Please remember I am not suggesting that is what we should do--just what tends to happen!) LOL
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Registered: 01-15-2006
Tue, 09-01-2009 - 2:25pm
DD1 won't refuse to eat another kind entirely but she prefers mostly thin spaghetti to anything else.

 

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