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Re: noodad » TV and McDonalds Is Good For You Too

qsmama — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:06:39 -0000

I agree completely! Fast food is everywhere now. Chuck E Cheese \"sponsors\" Sesame Street on our local PBS station.

No matter what you think of TV and fast food, they\'re here to stay. That\'s why we need to raise our kids to make good decisions as consumers.

I just started a web site on exactly this topic--well, the fast food part, not the TV part.

www.quickservekids.com

I was the founding editor of a magazine for fast-food industry executives. I know more about fast food than I EVER wanted to. Far more. But now I just consider that strange body of knowledge a tool I have in raising my daughter as a smart consumer--of fast food, tv commercials, everything she and her generation will have to deal with every day.

My two cents...as a mom. Love that dad are talking about this, too!

- L

Re: noodad » Tips for Reading to Your Kids

qsmama — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 03:01:25 -0000

Not sure I agree with the advice always to finish the book. There have been plenty of times Baby A (turned 2 in June) simply wasn\'t going to sit still. Her attention was gone--and it would\'ve been silly for me to sit reading \"Froggy Searches for Shapes\" to myself.

Another idea is to tell plenty of made-up stories, without books (or make your own with pictures from magazines). Our current favorite is \"Tiny Baby A,\" the story of me and my husband falling in love, wanting a baby, joyously welcoming A into our lives, then all the things we did to take care of her. (\"And the mommy and daddy helped their tiny baby nurse so she had a full tummy, and sang songs to her and hugged her when she cried so she\'d feel all better....\")

She *eats it up.* I guess little kids like to hear about themselves, just like us adults.

- L

Re: noodad » 10 Things You Need to Know By Heart, 5 Things You Can Look Up

qsmama — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:50:23 -0000

Hey, dads--

Worried about how you\'re going to remember all that stuff? It turns out (apparently) that new fathers undergo hormonal changes that make them smarter and better able to multi-task:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg191...

My friend Michelle sent me this link the other day. We often commiserate about our mommy-brain-fog. She also found a fascinating piece a few months ago about how new mothers actually increase their brain capacity by some huge factorthough we wondered out loud how we\'re supposed to tell when we\'re So. Dang. Sleepy. that we can\'t put two words together.

- L