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News for Parents — October

Dear Friends of Parenting Press,

Welcome to the October issue of our electronic newsletter for parents. Our goal is to provide you with interesting and useful information in a format that’s quick and easy to read—and FREE. We welcome your comments, both about the newsletter content and its format. To get the newsletter delivered, you can sign up for an e-mail subscription.

October 2007

IN THIS ISSUE

WHAT’S NEW?
FEATURES
POTPOURRI
COMING ATTRACTIONS
- Gifts Kids Can Make
- Handling Holiday Season Excitement

I. WHAT’S NEW?

Places to Go, Things to See

“This isn’t a book, really,” insists the author of 101 Places You Gotta See Before You’re 12 (Lark Books, 2006). “It’s more like a scavenger hunt.”

Joanne Sullivan continues, “Instead of hunting for things, you’ll be hunting for cool places and amazing experiences.”

And whether your search is for lighthouses, literary locations, wildlife or a wind farm, the book publisher has included five pages of stickers for kids to track where they’ve been and where they still want to go. Some of the places are close to home—a parent’s workplace, a home for the elderly, a landfill. Others may involve a family vacation or a school field trip: showing the kids where their parents grew up, visiting an artist’s studio or media newsroom, a geyser, insectarium or battlefield.

Each suggested location or experience has at least one illustrated page in the book, with interesting text and references to where you can see or do whatever’s suggested. For lighthouses, for example, you’ll learn how patterns painted on towers and light patterns helped ship captains distinguish one lighhouse from another. There’s also a URL for a directory of North American lighthouses.

Other examples of Sullivan’s recommended spots: old-growth forests, ghost towns, waterfalls, Olympic training centers, second-hand stores, backstage at a theater, a mint, hall of fame, archeological site, airplane hangar and recording studio. Combine a couple of her ideas—that second-hand store and the Children’s Garbage Museum—and your family can spend a rainy day or making its own “trash-a-saurus.” If you’re planning a road trip, 101 Places You Gotta See will help you research worthwhile stops along your route.

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Feeding Babies and Toddlers

In the foreword to Baby Bites, a pediatrician and mother writes, “Most of parenthood can be fun and fabulous, but it’s rarely a smooth ride. When it comes to nutrition, you’re definitely in for some bottle battles and food fights . . .”

You can avoid some of those mealtime arguments—and such health problems as obesity and diabetes—if you start off with the right foods. Author Bridget Swinney, a dietitian, recommends that children be served foods that are “naturally nutrient-rich”: minimally processed and inherently rich in vitamins, minerals or antioxidants. Some examples:
- Fruits
- Vegetables
- Legumes
- Nuts
- Whole grains
- Milk, cheese and yogurt
- Soy milk and tofu
- Eggs
- Seafood
- Lean beef, lamb and wild game
- Chicken and turkey, especially dark meat
Avoid fad diets with children, even if you know such diets can help adults. Low-carb diets, for example, do not provide for physical growth and mental activity. Very young children should avoid low-fat diets, too: babies need about half of their calories from fat, especially for brain development. (There are still good fats and bad fats: emphasize unsaturated fats such as those that come from vegetable and fish and limit the intake of trans fat by avoiding shortening, margarine, fried foods, crackers and cookies.)

When it’s time for more than breast milk or formula, you may want to make at least some of Baby’s food. If you do, points out Sullivan, you can:
- Control what is in the food
- Save money
- Use organic produce, meats and poultry
- Provide more variety than is in commercial baby foods
- Prepare foods from your culture
- Introduce your baby to the flavors and spices your family ordinarily eats
There are many ways to prepare food for a baby; one key is to use as little water as possible, which means more nutrients are retained. You can steam food, microwave it or cook it in a Crock Pot. Once cooked, food can be pureed or mashed. Extras can be frozen in ice cube trays, baby food storage trays, or your smallest regular food storage containers. Or use Sullivan’s “plop” suggestion: cover a cookie sheet with “plops” of one or two tablespoons of food, freeze them and then push several servings into small freezer bags.

Top of page
Quick! Costumes in 60 Minutes or Less

The Halloween candy has been out in the store aisles for weeks, and now you’re seeing pumpkin and corn stalk decorations here, there and everywhere. You may have received a Halloween party invitation—and your kids may be talking about the costume parades scheduled for preschool and school.

Of course, that means THEY need costumes. That’s why this article—to give you a few ideas for quick, inexpensive ways to turn your kids into angels, vampires, queens, critters or super-heroes.

First, let’s talk basics. For tots, one-piece fleece pajamas or snowsuits can be turned into all sorts of animals simply by adding felt, buttons, chenille stem whiskers and face paint. Matching sweat pants and shirts are almost as easy to turn into costumes. If it’s cold, start with long underwear or tights. If it’s warm, a T-shirt or leotard with leggings or tights can be the foundation of the costume.

Remember safety, too: costumes should not have straps or tails that dangle or trail, or anything that can trip up your trick-or-treater (or you). Face paint and make-up is much safer than masks, which can impair vision. Be careful that hats, crowns and other headgear stay put and cannot slip down over eyes, too.

Now let’s think about accessories. Vampires, witches, queens and super-heroes almost always need capes—and are they ever easy to create! The “sew-less” solution can be a yard of fabric tacked to the sweat shirt or leotard’s shoulder seams with a few stitches or a couple of fancy rhinestone pins. Almost as simple is a cape that the kids will use for years for dress-up.

Sewing directions: Start with a yard of fabric in an appropriate color and fabric. Maybe your vampire will want something shiny and black and your queen a scrap of velveteen in regal red or purple. Give all four sides a narrow hem and then turn down one of the long sides about four inches. (See collar detail.) Sew a casing wide enough for a strip of half-inch-wide elastic that’s long enough to go around your child’s neck. When you insert the elastic, it will gather the cape. Stitch the ends of the casing well, so that the elastic is securely caught, and then sew a large snap (half-inch or greater in diameter) at the casing’s end.

Crowning touches: Stop by your neighborhood drugstore or the local costume shop for face paint, plastic fangs, a peaked hat or a scepter. Make a crown out of gold-colored felt or paper. (Or look for a glittery cardboard crown in the birthday aisle of a party goods shop.)

Skirts for the queen and witch—or a ballerina’s tutu—can be as simple as a yard or so of fabric that’s gathered with an elastic waistband. Make the skirt out of something satiny and the tutu from tulle you’ve doubled over. Stitch on ribbon flowers here and there on the queen’s skirt and sew several together for the ballerina’s hair decoration. For your witch, decorate the hem with—ooooh, ick!—plastic snakes and lizards. (At the waistband, the fabric should be at least three times as wide as your child is round, so if your child’s waist measures 14 inches or less, you’ll need no more than a yard of 44-inch wide fabric.)

Other quick costumes: Add a cowboy hat, securely coiled lariat, and bandana to jeans and a Western-style shirt or jacket for your cowpoke. Pop a kid-size toque on Junior, hand him a wooden spoon or plastic “cleaver” and then wrap him up in an bib apron and let him play celebrity chef. (He can collect treats in your colander.) Or turn your child into a highway by making a grey sandwich board-style sign. Stripe lanes with paint or black electrical tape, wire on toy cars and add freeway exit signs and billboards.

For a family of costumes, cut two sheets of green or silver posterboard in a fish shape and staple or lace them together over a child in matching leggings and turtleneck. Attach the “hook” in the mouth of one fish to Mom, decked out in fishing vest with pole, and the “hook” in a second child’s “mouth” to Dad, in the rest of the fishing garb. Or do as Parenting Press author Eileen Kennedy-Moore (What About Me?) and her husband did one year: dress up as zookeepers, with each of your children in a different critter costume!

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II. FEATURES

Tips for the month

Each Saturday, Parenting Press posts a new parenting tip and the previous week’s tip is moved to the archive. The topics planned for October are:

October 6 — The Child Who Clings
October 13 — How to Talk, How to Listen
October 20 — Staying Calm during Stressful Parenting Moments
October 27 — Your Child’s Temperament & Environment

Top of page
Family Fun Ideas — Race into Fall

Illustration by Jenny Williams for Is This a Phase? by Helen F. Neville

Before there’s too much homework or the weather gets nasty, round up all the wheels in the neighborhood for an informal race. Or use this as an excuse to get together with aunts, uncles and cousins.

Create an obstacle course in the alley or cul de sac with cones, boxes or sawhorses and use a stop watch to see whether kids on bikes and trikes are faster than moms on inline skates or dads pushing strollers. Variation: give everyone a lawnmower, hand truck, wagon or vacuum cleaner to steer! Or if you have a slight incline, let competitors race in different lanes. (Remember helmets!) Finish up with a mini-race down a plank: put zucchinis on wheels or help kids build racers with empty saltboxes, potato crisp canisters or soda pop cans.

Let your kids create awards—at least one for every competitor—using ribbon and gilt-wrapped chocolate coins or build trophies by mounting old Matchbox-style cars on blocks of wood and spraying them gold.

Top of page
Community Service: Picture this!

Scarecrow photo courtesy of Lark Books

Our goal with this column is to suggest ways that you can model the concept of sharing and giving back to your community. There are other practical advantages to community service, too. Kids can use these projects to meet school or youth group requirements for community service and to start building resumes that they’ll use when applying for first jobs or college.

This month, why not a Halloween-themed project? Even little kids can help tell spooky stories at your local library and bigger kids can put on a monster of a puppet show for your school’s after-school child care program. Kids too old for trick-or-treating can share in the fun and raise funds for a favorite charity with a photo booth at a local merchant. Especially if your neighborhood has a trick-or-treat event where hundreds of families gather in a short time period, it’ll be easy to attract customers to a “studio” where families can perch on straw bales among pumpkins for well-lit photos they can use on their family blogs and in their holiday newsletters. Or let people pose with their arms around a scarecrow! If your kids are supporting a food bank or animal shelter, they could ask for packaged foods instead of cash.

Top of page
“Reader Rewards” Program Recognizes Reviewers

Tell us how you use your favorite Parenting Press publications and we’ll send you much more than a thank-you note. In fact, we’ll send you an entire book—your choice of anything Parenting Press publishes!

If you have a favorite Parenting Press publication you’d like to tell us about, please send us your comments and contact information. If we use your comment, you will receive a gift certificate redeemable on your choice of Parenting Press publication.

Please note that all submissions become the property of Parenting Press for use in promotional literature and activities and that we reserve the right to identify you by name, title and city of residence/place of business. However, you will be contacted for written permission prior to the use of your submission. All “Reader Rewards” submissions should be received by Parenting Press prior to Dec. 31, 2007.

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Raise funds with a Parenting Press Book Fair

Would your school or group like a new fund-raiser?

For years Parenting Press has been offering its carefully written books on child guidance, problem-solving and dealing with feelings through preschool Book Fairs. Now our Book Fairs are being expanded to schools, churches, child-care programs, parenting groups—any organization that can use parenting and children’s books.

More information about our Book Fairs is posted online. We have posted a copy of the brochure, an explanation of how much you can earn with a Book Fair, a step-by-step guide to make Book Fairs easy and fun to organize and downloadable promotional materials.

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III. POTPOURRI

Special of the month—Celebrate Janan Cain’s birthday

This special has expired.

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To get the newsletter delivered, you can sign up for an e-mail subscription. October 2007 IN THIS ISSUE WHAT’S NEW? Places to Go, Things to See Feeding Babies and Toddlers Quick! Costumes in 60 Minutes or Less FEATURES Tips for the month Family fun ideas—Race into Fall Community service—Picture this! “Reader Rewards” Program Recognizes Reviewers Book Fair Materials Available Online POTPOURRI Special of the month—Happy Birthday, Janan Cain! Feedback: Does the newsletter work properly? How to receive your free subscription to this e-zine Reprinting articles in your newsletter COMING ATTRACTIONS Gifts Kids Can Make Handling Holiday Season Excitement I. WHAT’S NEW? Places to Go, Things to See “This isn’t a book, really,” insists the author of 101 Places You Gotta See Before You’re 12 (Lark Books, 2006). “It’s more like a scavenger hunt.” Joanne Sullivan continues, “Instead of hunting for things, you’ll be hunting for cool places and amazing experiences.” And whether your search is for lighthouses, literary locations, wildlife or a wind farm, the book publisher has included five pages of stickers for kids to track where they’ve been and where they still want to go. Some of the places are close to home—a parent’s workplace, a home for the elderly, a landfill. Others may involve a family vacation or a school field trip: showing the kids where their parents grew up, visiting an artist’s studio or media newsroom, a geyser, insectarium or battlefield. Each suggested location or experience has at least one illustrated page in the book, with interesting text and references to where you can see or do whatever’s suggested. For lighthouses, for example, you’ll learn how patterns painted on towers and light patterns helped ship captains distinguish one lighhouse from another. There’s also a URL for a directory of North American lighthouses. Other examples of Sullivan’s recommended spots: old-growth forests, ghost towns, waterfalls, Olympic training centers, second-hand stores, backstage at a theater, a mint, hall of fame, archeological site, airplane hangar and recording studio. Combine a couple of her ideas—that second-hand store and the Children’s Garbage Museum—and your family can spend a rainy day or making its own “trash-a-saurus.” If you’re planning a road trip, 101 Places You Gotta See will help you research worthwhile stops along your route. Top of page Feeding Babies and Toddlers In the foreword to Baby Bites, a pediatrician and mother writes, “Most of parenthood can be fun and fabulous, but it’s rarely a smooth ride. When it comes to nutrition, you’re definitely in for some bottle battles and food fights . . .” You can avoid some of those mealtime arguments—and such health problems as obesity and diabetes—if you start off with the right foods. Author Bridget Swinney, a dietitian, recommends that children be served foods that are “naturally nutrient-rich”: minimally processed and inherently rich in vitamins, minerals or antioxidants. Some examples: Fruits Vegetables Legumes Nuts Whole grains Milk, cheese and yogurt Soy milk and tofu Eggs Seafood Lean beef, lamb and wild game Chicken and turkey, especially dark meat Avoid fad diets with children, even if you know such diets can help adults. Low-carb diets, for example, do not provide for physical growth and mental activity. Very young children should avoid low-fat diets, too: babies need about half of their calories from fat, especially for brain development. (There are still good fats and bad fats: emphasize unsaturated fats such as those that come from vegetable and fish and limit the intake of trans fat by avoiding shortening, margarine, fried foods, crackers and cookies.) When it’s time for more than breast milk or formula, you may want to make at least some of Baby’s food. If you do, points out Sullivan, you can: Control what is in the food Save money Use organic produce, meats and poultry Provide more variety than is in commercial baby foods Prepare foods from your culture Introduce your baby to the flavors and spices your family ordinarily eats There are many ways to prepare food for a baby; one key is to use as little water as possible, which means more nutrients are retained. You can steam food, microwave it or cook it in a Crock Pot. Once cooked, food can be pureed or mashed. Extras can be frozen in ice cube trays, baby food storage trays, or your smallest regular food storage containers. Or use Sullivan’s “plop” suggestion: cover a cookie sheet with “plops” of one or two tablespoons of food, freeze them and then push several servings into small freezer bags. Top of page Quick! Costumes in 60 Minutes or Less The Halloween candy has been out in the store aisles for weeks, and now you’re seeing pumpkin and corn stalk decorations here, there and everywhere. You may have received a Halloween party invitation—and your kids may be talking about the costume parades scheduled for preschool and school. Of course, that means THEY need costumes. That’s why this article—to give you a few ideas for quick, inexpensive ways to turn your kids into angels, vampires, queens, critters or super-heroes. First, let’s talk basics. For tots, one-piece fleece pajamas or snowsuits can be turned into all sorts of animals simply by adding felt, buttons, chenille stem whiskers and face paint. Matching sweat pants and shirts are almost as easy to turn into costumes. If it’s cold, start with long underwear or tights. If it’s warm, a T-shirt or leotard with leggings or tights can be the foundation of the costume. Remember safety, too: costumes should not have straps or tails that dangle or trail, or anything that can trip up your trick-or-treater (or you). Face paint and make-up is much safer than masks, which can impair vision. Be careful that hats, crowns and other headgear stay put and cannot slip down over eyes, too. Now let’s think about accessories. Vampires, witches, queens and super-heroes almost always need capes—and are they ever easy to create! The “sew-less” solution can be a yard of fabric tacked to the sweat shirt or leotard’s shoulder seams with a few stitches or a couple of fancy rhinestone pins. Almost as simple is a cape that the kids will use for years for dress-up. Sewing directions: Start with a yard of fabric in an appropriate color and fabric. Maybe your vampire will want something shiny and black and your queen a scrap of velveteen in regal red or purple. Give all four sides a narrow hem and then turn down one of the long sides about four inches. (See collar detail.) Sew a casing wide enough for a strip of half-inch-wide elastic that’s long enough to go around your child’s neck. When you insert the elastic, it will gather the cape. Stitch the ends of the casing well, so that the elastic is securely caught, and then sew a large snap (half-inch or greater in diameter) at the casing’s end. Crowning touches: Stop by your neighborhood drugstore or the local costume shop for face paint, plastic fangs, a peaked hat or a scepter. Make a crown out of gold-colored felt or paper. (Or look for a glittery cardboard crown in the birthday aisle of a party goods shop.) Skirts for the queen and witch—or a ballerina’s tutu—can be as simple as a yard or so of fabric that’s gathered with an elastic waistband. Make the skirt out of something satiny and the tutu from tulle you’ve doubled over. Stitch on ribbon flowers here and there on the queen’s skirt and sew several together for the ballerina’s hair decoration. For your witch, decorate the hem with—ooooh, ick!—plastic snakes and lizards. (At the waistband, the fabric should be at least three times as wide as your child is round, so if your child’s waist measures 14 inches or less, you’ll need no more than a yard of 44-inch wide fabric.) Other quick costumes: Add a cowboy hat, securely coiled lariat, and bandana to jeans and a Western-style shirt or jacket for your cowpoke. Pop a kid-size toque on Junior, hand him a wooden spoon or plastic “cleaver” and then wrap him up in an bib apron and let him play celebrity chef. (He can collect treats in your colander.) Or turn your child into a highway by making a grey sandwich board-style sign. Stripe lanes with paint or black electrical tape, wire on toy cars and add freeway exit signs and billboards. For a family of costumes, cut two sheets of green or silver posterboard in a fish shape and staple or lace them together over a child in matching leggings and turtleneck. Attach the “hook” in the mouth of one fish to Mom, decked out in fishing vest with pole, and the “hook” in a second child’s “mouth” to Dad, in the rest of the fishing garb. Or do as Parenting Press author Eileen Kennedy-Moore (What About Me?) and her husband did one year: dress up as zookeepers, with each of your children in a different critter costume! Top of page II. FEATURES Tips for the month Each Saturday, Parenting Press posts a new parenting tip and the previous week’s tip is moved to the archive. The topics planned for October are: October 6 — The Child Who Clings October 13 — How to Talk, How to Listen October 20 — Staying Calm during Stressful Parenting Moments October 27 — Your Child’s Temperament & Environment Top of page Family Fun Ideas — Race into Fall Illustration by Jenny Williams for Is This a Phase? by Helen F. Neville Before there’s too much homework or the weather gets nasty, round up all the wheels in the neighborhood for an informal race. Or use this as an excuse to get together with aunts, uncles and cousins. Create an obstacle course in the alley or cul de sac with cones, boxes or sawhorses and use a stop watch to see whether kids on bikes and trikes are faster than moms on inline skates or dads pushing strollers. Variation: give everyone a lawnmower, hand truck, wagon or vacuum cleaner to steer! Or if you have a slight incline, let competitors race in different lanes. (Remember helmets!) Finish up with a mini-race down a plank: put zucchinis on wheels or help kids build racers with empty saltboxes, potato crisp canisters or soda pop cans. Let your kids create awards—at least one for every competitor—using ribbon and gilt-wrapped chocolate coins or build trophies by mounting old Matchbox-style cars on blocks of wood and spraying them gold. Top of page Community Service: Picture this! Scarecrow photo courtesy of Lark Books Our goal with this column is to suggest ways that you can model the concept of sharing and giving back to your community. There are other practical advantages to community service, too. Kids can use these projects to meet school or youth group requirements for community service and to start building resumes that they’ll use when applying for first jobs or college. This month, why not a Halloween-themed project? Even little kids can help tell spooky stories at your local library and bigger kids can put on a monster of a puppet show for your school’s after-school child care program. Kids too old for trick-or-treating can share in the fun and raise funds for a favorite charity with a photo booth at a local merchant. Especially if your neighborhood has a trick-or-treat event where hundreds of families gather in a short time period, it’ll be easy to attract customers to a “studio” where families can perch on straw bales among pumpkins for well-lit photos they can use on their family blogs and in their holiday newsletters. Or let people pose with their arms around a scarecrow! If your kids are supporting a food bank or animal shelter, they could ask for packaged foods instead of cash. Top of page “Reader Rewards” Program Recognizes Reviewers Tell us how you use your favorite Parenting Press publications and we’ll send you much more than a thank-you note. In fact, we’ll send you an entire book—your choice of anything Parenting Press publishes! If you have a favorite Parenting Press publication you’d like to tell us about, please send us your comments and contact information. If we use your comment, you will receive a gift certificate redeemable on your choice of Parenting Press publication. Please note that all submissions become the property of Parenting Press for use in promotional literature and activities and that we reserve the right to identify you by name, title and city of residence/place of business. However, you will be contacted for written permission prior to the use of your submission. All “Reader Rewards” submissions should be received by Parenting Press prior to Dec. 31, 2007. Top of page Raise funds with a Parenting Press Book Fair Would your school or group like a new fund-raiser? For years Parenting Press has been offering its carefully written books on child guidance, problem-solving and dealing with feelings through preschool Book Fairs. Now our Book Fairs are being expanded to schools, churches, child-care programs, parenting groups—any organization that can use parenting and children’s books. More information about our Book Fairs is posted online. We have posted a copy of the brochure, an explanation of how much you can earn with a Book Fair, a step-by-step guide to make Book Fairs easy and fun to organize and downloadable promotional materials. Top of page III. POTPOURRI Special of the month—Celebrate Janan Cain’s birthday This special has expired. Top of page Does the newsletter work properly? We would like this newsletter to be interactive—a place where we can ask for your opinion on what we are doing and what information people who live or work with children would like to see from Parenting Press. We would also like you to tell us what information and books you need and want. We welcome your comments on the format and content on the feedback form. Thank you! Top of page How to receive (or send) a no-cost subscription to this e-zine. We hope you have enjoyed PARENTING PRESS NEWS FOR PARENTS. Subscribing: If you were referred to this newsletter by a friend or colleague, you can have it delivered by signing up for an e-mail subscription (there’s no cost). If you received the e-mail edition from Parenting Press, you are already subscribed. If you enjoyed the newsletter, don’t hesitate to tell your friends. If they wish to continue receiving the newsletter, they will need to subscribe. If you are a parent educator, feel free to tell your colleagues, students, or friends who might be interested. Thank you! Top of page Reprinting e-zine articles in your newsletter. 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