As the mother of picky children, I’m starting to get more creative about how I force, er serve, proper nutrients at mealtime. Unfortunately neither of my children eat meat right now, but they will do some serious damage to cheese and milk. But outside of iron concerns, I wonder about getting them other forms of protein to help grow those lovely strong muscles. I’ve actually thought of protein shakes to work in some more nutrients on the sly.
After all, both of my boys are obsessed with Jamba Juice. How tricky would it be to make healthy protein shakes at home just by adding a bit of protein powder (never too much mind you) to a frozen concoction of bananas, strawberries and blueberries? To my way of thinking it would be far easier to do that than force them to eat steak when they are dead set against it.
I’m not sure if the shakes would be a permanent addition around our house, perhaps an afternoon snack or part of dinner at night, but they will at least make me feel better about getting the most important stuff into the kids. I am reasonably sure at some point my little picky eaters will branch back out from pasta and Jamba juice to include real meats again, but in the meantime, I’m not going to knock anything that might make mealtimes a bit easier on all of us.
March 10th, 2010
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As a huge fan of both parenting and Mythbusters, I absolutely had to put this on the blog. It all makes perfect sense to me, and for the record, I reject your reality and substitute my own. As a side note, while teaching Science this year, I used Mythbusters episodes for absolutely everything I could – Force, Ecosystems, whatever. Love the guys!
Here’s the article in question by Geek Dad, By Kevin Makice
 Everything I Know About Parenting I Learned from Mythbusters
July 7th, 2009
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All of my life, I’ve had goals. I wanted kiddos, I wanted to help others, I wanted to be comfortable financially, I wanted to be a pro, I wanted to be healthy and skinny. So far I’ve managed to hit them all – although it’s been about 12 years on the skinny front, but I was there once.
In the last two or three years, however, life seems to have replaced my goals. To be honest, it’s mostly my fault. I had a goal of staying home after my second son, Brian, was born. I started myself an online business and made that happen – even if I’m still paying off the first few months of no teaching paycheck.
Now that I’m raising happy healthy children, seem to be scraping by in a healthy, if unique, marriage and have a nice home that will keep me busy for years updating, I’m not sure where to go next.
And I have to go somewhere, it’s my nature.
I think the biggest problem is I seem to be living two or three separate lives in my standard twenty-four hours. It’s too much to fit comfortable, but I can’t figure out what I want to do about it.
* I have a successful writing business that could easily consume my entire working day crammed into my evenings.
* I have a teaching job that is immensely rewarding, but rather draining that takes me away from my boys too often for my taste.
* I have a fantasy life of Wii, books, movies, sleep and exercise that used to be my existence before the boys and the writing showed up.
I can’t figure out where I want to go next.
- I want to be the mom that can whip up fifteen different healthy chicken recipes or use campfire breakfast recipes to wow the entire Boy Scout troop.
- I want to be the woman at the trade shows making connections with other self-sufficient, totally egotistical, definitely successful freelancers and webmasters.
- I want to work a handful of hours each day making a full-time income – during the day!
- I want to work with my junior high school students to try and help them overcome the obstacles they face.
- I want to work out for an hour a day again so I can enjoy the sensation of my clothes growing larger.
- I want evenings to mean relaxation, rest and preparation rather than more work while housework goes undone.
- I want to eat more chocolate and lay on the couch.
- I seem to want it all, but at the same time want nothing more than what I already have.
It’s just one more sign that I’m a knowledgeable woman, a dedicated mother, a terrible cook and strong enough to be willing to do what it takes to reach the goal.
Now I just have to figure out which goals I want to actually reach. At this moment, I’m leaning toward the chocolate one….
January 28th, 2009
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