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I have tried and tried to avoid artificial food coloring/dyes in the peapod squad’s food, but it is like trying to climb Mt. Everest on a tricycle…especially when most folks think I’m nuts for even caring. And the kids think I’m a seriously mean mommy, because all of the “cool” food is brightly colored with artificial stuff. The scientific evidence may not be concrete yet, but I see a HUGE difference in my kids when they consume the junk. Red 40 seems to be the biggest culprit for us, but I’d love to be able to avoid all of it.

I highly recommend this really interesting read…

via When Food Dyes Color Our Child’s Behavior – Feed Our Familes Blog.

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In the Blink of an Eye

by Monica on December 9, 2010

I have tons of cute pictures of the peapod squad being read to. Here’s hubby reading to Split.

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And here Split is perusing the newspaper.

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And this used to be my very favorite “reading” picture of Split.

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I say “used to be” because tonight I took a new picture of Split with a book. This time, though, he was reading to Daddy. Yep, my sweet boy read a book all by himself for the first time tonight. I was so proud I thought I’d just pop! And my new little reader? Well, I swear he was strutting to his room tonight. He seemed like SUCH a big boy. Ouch.

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I mentioned that I’m proud, right?

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Serenity Now!!!

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When Parenting Techniques Backfire

December 8, 2009

Snap at bedtime:  Mom, these are your choices. You can give me a cookie now or you can wait and give it to me after you read my story. Nicely played, dear, but um…no. Possibly Related Posts: Gee Thanks, Kids Mangia! Mangia! Kindergarten Biology Lesson The View from Here Too Busy Playing to Blog

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His Achy Breaky Little Heart

November 20, 2009

I knew it would happen. I just didn’t anticipate it happening at such a young age. One of my little peas has a broken heart. ALREADY. ~~~~~~~~~ Split pulled a fast one on us one day last week. He claimed to have a tummy ache and said he couldn’t go to school. Because we’d had [...]

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Simple Gifts

November 13, 2009

With Christmas quickly approaching, those obnoxious toy commercials are airing at an alarming rate. And the message being pounded into our consumerism-driven heads is “Buy this! Buy that!” But you know what I’ve noticed? Our children don’t actually play with most of their toys. No, they (like most other kids, I suspect) are just as [...]

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