Eat your greens

How do you get your kids to eat their vegies?  Someone told me today that they get their 3 year old to eat more by allowing them to sprinkle them with those sprinkles you put on cookies.  While personally, the idea of candy coloured broccoli doesn’t appeal, I can see why a toddler would love this.  The combination of control over their environment and colour and movement might just do the trick.  If you don’t want to encourage the whole sugar/food colouring thing, maybe there’s something else you could try?  Sesame seeds?  Breadcrumbs?  Parmesan cheese?  Salt?  (just kidding on the last one.)

Parent Hacks

We’ve got a two year old, who comes complete with about 1000 toys and each one has about 1000 pieces. (<<insert comment about spoiling children here>>)  This makes clean up time a complete pain in the ass – especially when he’s not being co-operative and doesn’t want to help. (which is most of the time)  That’s why I’m intrigued by the BAM! game, as related to Parenthacks.com.  Basically, it’s all about throwing toys (the non-breakable kind) into their respective containers, while yelling “BAM!”   Simple, I know – but it’s one of those things that you don’t think about until someone points it out.  I know our son would love this, but personally, I’d be worried that he’d start doing it outside clean-up time.  Anyways, give it a try and if it works for you (or doesn’t), let us now in the comments.