I'll be watching this one b/c you just described my 7 yo dd perfectly. The deliberately not looking thing drives me INSANE! The level of frustration that she reaches over this is very stressful. It's like dealing w/ a toddler again. I...
I'm glad you figured it out. IRT the food wasting thing...I also have a big issue w/ this. I have since learned that the portions I was giving him were waaay off. This site has a lot of good info on the toddler diet.
Well, we just found out we're moving to a farm and I am going on a planting frenzy. I haven't grown anything edible in years, but I am diving in. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with them? He sells on Ebay as mnrsales and has...
Botanikka has mini vegetable and container garden seed collections.
I've only just stumbled upon this site and haven't ordered anything.........yet, lol.
For older kids (6-12, I think), Home Depot has free kid's workshops the first Saturday of each month. We are in a new area, so my list of free things doesn't apply anymore (it's all San Diego stuff, lol)
My DS is also 17 mos and a sparse eater. I attribute it to teething, though. He's cut 6 teeth in the past month or so and that just has to suck. Like the pp, I have had more luck w/ letting him graze. He seems to like the concept of...
We do. DS is not too big on solids (I'll worry when he's done cutting teeth, lol). so he nurses very frequently (he's 17 mos). He's a total self service kiddo and likes to "speed things up" by rapidly tweeking the not in use...
I WOH full time until DS was 1 yr, so I mostly pumped. Fenugreek and Blessed Thistle were godsends for me when I started having supply issues. The results were almost immediate (noticeable to DH, even...that's how full). Give it a...