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jencookies43 wrote: We have an annual get together with friends. It's called "Play with Your Food Day". Every family ...

One spooky... morning, ten years ago, I cut a tomato and this stared back. Untouched, eyes and all, just like this: Let the wo...

Kelly Lovejoy wrote: I think that, although *I* love the "radical" unschooler label, it can turn folks off just because ...

A mom trying to persuade another mom to let kids have choices wrote: But children don't die from eating too many Oreos or spending ...

Renee Cabatic, July 2010: We were at a bar-b-q party and a 5-yr-old friend dug into the cooler, pulled out a Coca-cola and asked ...

PamG wrote: We went out to eat at Olive Garden last night and the boys got this activity sheet/menu to do while we waited. It had a...

Sally Lopez wrote: This was lunch for Will (3 yrs), who was busy playing games online, and for Elias (18 mos), who was napping while...

"I trust she is living a happy life and learning just happens if we step out of the way." —Tamara MacDonald A day and a bit ...

Jo Isaac wrote: Scientific studies show that parents who control food end up passing on a whole set of other problems to their kid...

This just makes me shudder: "Come on people, we are all doing the best that we can." It means "Stop trying. Trying...

Annie Kessler wrote: I used to honestly believe that my son was really sensitive to sugar and that consuming it changed his behavior...

I was planning to borrow an older post for today's post. Intending to see whether I had already repeated it, I accidentally put it into...

SandraDodd: I remember when I was a kid being told repeatedly in school that humans had no instincts left. So why would it even have...

Gwen Montoya , Easter 2014 This morning my kids woke up to Easter baskets with a DVD they have been wanting and lots of their favor...

A mom named Lorraine wrote, years ago: The 1st biggie for me was the food issue . I read 'let them eat what they want' &...

The idea that one can learn to feel and know one's own body and choose foods accordingly is shocking to most people. I wouldn'...

If a family thinks that "having no junk food" in the house will ensure a child's health for eight or nine decades, they ...

Meredith wrote: Expecting human relationships—of any kind—to be fair and equitable is a set-up for cynicism and disappointment in th...

Christine Macdonald wrote that she and her daughter had walked to the grocery store once to pick up milk they needed for a recipe: I ...

Nicole wrote: Thank you for the ways you have helped me embrace abundance and the positive impact this has on my family. I am enteri...