Over long weekends my family and our church friends usually go for a picnic together. It is very common to have family barbecues here in Australia. For the pending Easter holidays, we might have a barbecue at someone’s place or in a park. Would you go for a family barbecue over weekends or during holidays? […]
While doing some research and writing posts on eating, I found a very useful tool for tracking down the responses of your child when introducing solid foods. It is a very scientific way to either spot a problematic food to your child or minimize the chance of giving allergic foods to your little one […]
One of my friends, she is a mother of 3 kids (7, 5 and 2 1/2 now). The first two are easy eaters. Even when they were toddlers, whatever she’d put in front of them on the table, they’d finish the plate off and ask her whether they could have some more. But for the […]
Sandy, a mother to six kids shared that breakfast could be always messy when her children were learning to feed themselves. She’s finally tried out a simple way to solve the problem.
I mixed Cheerios, or whatever cereal was my child’s favorite, with yogurt because it helped the cereal stick to the spoon. My child was […]
Tanveer Badal has an eye-opening article on What Toddlers Eat Around the World, covering 11 countries: Japan, South Africa, Australia, Israel, Brazil, Turkey, Korea , Denmark, Sweden and India. What kids eat in other countries is so different from each other, and closely related to their traditions and available resources. Some may surprise you:
Japan – […]
This recipe is quite good for teething babies if you want to introduce some fruits to them as well:
A variety of fruits (pears and apples are good)
Cut each fruit into quarters, then put into a bowl and cover to microwave for about 4 minutes. Chop fruit with an electric blender or chopper.
You can use immediately […]
The growth of a healthy baby depends on the regularity and quantity of a balanced diet. How do new parents go about feeding their babies? If your baby is fed by breast milk, when and how many times should they have a day? How about feeding with formula? MedlinePlus offers parents some clear and easy-to-follow […]
My two children are ketchup lovers. They will eat a lot of any food that can go with ketchup. Like many people, they all got the wrong way - tapping the bottom of bottles - to pour out ketchup. The worst scenario always happened that after tapping the ketchup bottle for a few moments, nothing […]
My son and I love eating salmon very much. Salmon contains Omega-3 fatty acids that benefit the heart of healthy people. Experts say that heart disease, which is linked with obesity that can begin in early childhood. So salmon is also good to children’s health.
Sometimes we eat raw if I can buy a whole fresh […]
A trial study conducted at 12 Durham schools by Dr Alex Richardson, a senior research fellow in physiology at Mansfield College, shows a statistically significant improvement in school performance in the group of children given Omega 3 supplements. Children who were required to take a course of capsules with their meals for the duration of […]