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September 8th 2008 @ 06:26

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Healthy food for toddlers

My kids love french-fries, fried chicken, chips and all other fried and dried foods. Thanks to their dad, who introduced them to these kinds of food. I’ve found that when potatoes are fried in cooking oil, it produces cancer-causing agents harmful to the body. I’m also surprised to know that even cereals also have these bad agents. I forgot the name but surely I don’t want my kids to be exposed to that. So I found a better way of cooking those and making it healthy:
1. Use pure vegetable oil in frying food for your babies.
2. Instead of frying your potatoes, why not boil them and season them with salt? It’s also as tasty as french-fries but it's a lot healthier. Remember, the rawer your vegetables are the more nutritious they are for your kids.

3. Try dried fruits for a snack like dried mangoes, banana chips, and prunes instead of letting them consume those nasty junk foods.
4. Try to puree oranges, apples and grapes for juices in a blender instead of buying those instant powdered drinks.
5. Instead of using white sugar, use brown sugar or better yet honey for their hotcakes. It’s sweeter but it’s a lot healthier.

I found this recipe from a website. My kids love these because it’s cooked the way they wanted it, which is fried but you can do it in any vegetable you want. I’ll keep you posted whenever I encounter recipes of this kind. Here it is, enjoy!

CRISPY VEGGIES

Ingredients :
1 bundle horse raddish (kangkong)
4 pieces okra
1 egg
1 cup cornstarch
1 tsp salt
a pinch of pepper

Procedure:
1. Combine egg , cornstarch, salt and pepper. Mix thoroughly.
2. Separate kangkong leaves from stem.
3. Dip kangkong leaves and okra in the cornstarch mixture.
4. Deep fry kangkong and okra until crispy.
5. Place fried kangkong and okra in a plate lined with paper towel to remove excess oil.
6. Serve with sweet and sour sauce.

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September 8th 2008 @ 03:39

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Forever Moments

Yesterday, I’m burning cds of some of our videos. While burning, I mesmerized what is in the videos. Our 1-year old, Addie, sliding inside a large box like it’s going to be her room for life. And then there is 2-year old Yssa with the flute while her little sister dances like a chubby snake to her remarkable music and more of Yssa taking pictures by herself (no need to enter school for photography).
Pictures and videos remind us of how days pass by so fast. Good thing we have those digital cameras, video cams and cellphones with cameras always ready to flash when our “precious moments” come.
TIPS:
TAKE A LOT OF PICTURES – It’s digital! You can just delete pictures you don’t want and save the best. What’s important is you will be able to capture every moments. Don’t let it slip by or you don’t want to remember yourself scratching your butt, do you? (But that would be a funny one to remember. Ok, don’t delete it.)
DON’T USE CELLPHONE CAMERAS FOR OCCASIONS – do you want to use a cellphone camera on your children’s graduation day? Or on their first birthdays? Cellphone cameras are very reliable in terms of availability but we know that their picture qualities are lower than other cameras. Cellphone cameras are best if you saw a UFO or things that rarely happens. The more blurry the picture is the more mythical and mysterious it would be. Hehe.
ALWAYS TRIPLE BACK-UP AND ERASE – Special moments only happen once in our lives. If your digital camera’s memory or its memory card is full and that special moment happened, that’s not my fault if you don’t have any more memory space. Always remember to triple back-up your files in your computer, some picture hosting sites, print and keep in a real album or burn them in your cds, which brings me to the fourth tip.
CHOOSE FOR THE BEST PIC HOSTING SITE – The best pic hosting site for me is free, of course, but also should have a robust website and server for your pictures. What I mean with robust is it shouldn’t be amenable to hackers and should always be up and available. But I guess you gotta pay for one that is like that. It should also have a user-friendly uploading tool, one that provides drag-and-drop tool. Also, if you want to save them to your computer, it should be easier to download them from the website. I host my pictures and videos in flickr, photobucket, youtube, multiply and friendster.
NAME YOUR FILES – My mother once joked me that I’m like a dog who didn’t remember where it hid its bones. She was asking me for some videos that I didn’t remember where I saved. I have a lot of albums in 3 different websites. Oh, make that 4. So always be sure to at least label the batch title of the pictures, for your ease of retrieval in the future.
CHARGE AND HAVE A SPARE BATTERY – When you go out and there’s nowhere you can charge your cameras, which, by the way, stresses us a lot, before leaving home, make sure it’s fully-charged!

And that moments will be there forever!

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September 6th 2008 @ 02:14

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Toddler Birthday Party Ideas

My eldest’s birthday party is fast-approaching. Actually, it’s still 3 months away. But it is always smart to plan ahead of time, especially if you’re working full-time. That’s why I thought of some tips on how to organize a party for the working mom:

GUEST LIST: This will help you decide what budget you are going to allot for the birthday party. Always allot 1-2 adults per kids. But it’s better if you will put an R.S.V.P. to your invitation cards. RSVP means Respondez S'il Vous Plas, which is French for Please Respond. This means the host would like a response as to whether you will be attending or not. This is important when planning parties to have seating and food for the correct number of people

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September 6th 2008 @ 02:02

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Saving for Education

Once, my cousin asked for my opinion on what educational plan to get for her kid. I remembered I got an educational plan for my eldest daughter when she was just a year-old. I was so excited to save something for her, for the first time, from my savings. Because, usually or most of the time, it was her grandma who was always spending for their clothes and toys. Because of my excitement, I miscalculated my budget for it. I allotted more than what I could give for the educational plan. It was eating up our expenses big time. Sad to say, I wasn’t able to continue it. It was a big mistake because I already deposited a huge amount for it.

Because of this I researched some good links to help me and my cousin decide on getting an educational plan. Here are some good links

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August 30th 2008 @ 11:58

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Child Rearing

When I was a child, my mother hanged a frame at my headboard side of my bed. The frame says of a poem by Ronald Russell entitled “Lessons from Life”. It has been revised several times but the original version was that on April 1, 1959 under the name of Dorothy Louise Law, in the Torrance Schools Board of Education newsletter. But the one posted in my bedside was in the October 1972 issue of Reader's Digest the following version appeared, which also appeared in the Reader's Digest Treasury of Modern Quotations, (1975), (NY: Reader's Digest Press), which seems to be an adaptation of the 1969 version:

A child that lives with ridicule learns to be timid

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August 28th 2008 @ 23:28

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To be angry to your child

Anger to the world, to mistakes, to your enemies or to yourself; it's all normal. But to be angry to your child, it will be the biggest and dumbest thing you will ever do in your sorry life.

Especially, if you get mad to them (your children) because you're stressed from work or from anything that has nothing to do with your kids. That is not fair for them. Sometimes they just want to get your attention or just want to ask you something. Because they're just kids, they tend to be a little irritating sometimes. But that's not a reason to shout at them

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August 20th 2008 @ 00:58

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Keeping your Kids Happy

A child has the simplest joy of all. Even if you buy them expensive toys they would opt for simple and ordinary toys like plastic cups, sticks, straws etc. Even a crumpled paper can turn into an awesome toy. My kids are my greatest fan. A simple snort or a loud sneeze can make them laugh. Sometimes when I play with them, it’s always a hit for them when I make funny faces and mimic voices of animals and their favorite cartoon. Once, while my youngest was enjoying her favorite cartoon show – Dora, I sang to hearts content the theme song of the show and she whimsically joined me dancing to it. Later in the day, their daddy bought them, each, a flute. You see, musical instruments are their favorite toy. We did a little musical show. My eldest and I blow the flute while my youngest danced to its beat. Their daddy even joked that we were like Indians playing to the cutest snake of all, my youngest one. It’s always a delight to play with my kids. You get to open your imagination. As Barney says, “You could do everything with your imagination.” My eldest is so fond of playing make-believe. She likes to act like a store-keeper and me as the customer. Even if the goods were imaginary she still acts as if it’s real. She hands me the goods after I give her the “imaginary” money. At other times she acts as a fast food service crew, manning the soda dispenser and ice-cream maker. It’s really funny how she gestures for the ice-cream maker even twirling the imaginary cup in her hands.

On weekends, we try to go out together and go to parks, zoos and in the bay area because my children loves open spaces and nature very much. My youngest likes to pick up flowers, stones and leaves. While my eldest glows at the sight of birds and different animals

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August 19th 2008 @ 08:57

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My CHILD is AT LAST POTTY-TRAINED

Today, August 10, 2008, is the day I can truly say that my child is already potty-trained. Awhile ago, I was so much focused on watching TV that I didn't hear her say, "Pee! Pee!". Because she usually does that only AFTER she already peed on her underpants. She does it best even for her sister. But when I reached out for her underpants and it was not wet, that's the time that I recognized that she was really telling me that she was about to pee and she needs my help. With a little bit of panic, I immediately carried her to the bathroom and removed her shorts, just in time. Later, after cleaning her potty-trainer, to our surprise it is filled with pee again, meaning she again used it to relieve herself.

After several months of pursuasion, frustration and misses of teaching her to do it on her potty-trainer, she now knows where to do it. My being a working mom just added to my frustrations because I cannot be with her to monitor her. I only asks the baby-sitter to do it for me. But when I'm with her, I always see to it that I talk to her about it everytime she pees on the bed or anywhere even on top of their drawers. Whew! See, I really don't know how I did it but I think AWARENESS, CONSISTENCY and COMMUNICATION is the key to teaching your child

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