Kids and snax

snax are always a challenge with children esp. when they come home before the parent does. But even if the parent is home, it is hard to deal with spurts of hunger due to a. boredom or b. growth spurts.
I know fruits/celery/carrots are a good option. Believe me, I've tried and it doesn't cut it at our house. For fear of invasion from darwinian pests, I've had to give up offering a wide choice of fruit.

If you don't want to hand out the sugar bombs, you can try to have some frozen treats like mini samosas, indian spring rolls (our recent success story) etc. S seems to like ez-mac!! A will eat anything sugary or chocolaty!!

Middle schools don't help with the snack machine handy for growing pre-teens! We are unable to keep A from carrying change esp. since he has started to earn money from mowing.

comments abt what works for you welcome.

Exercise

Well this happened a couple days ago. S comes home from school and immediately calls me to tell me that his gym teacher told his class that they should practice situps and pushups at home. S says "you've got to help me". I said "ok.. What do you want me to do?", for which he replied, "Mmmm..." his face brightens up.. "Do whatever moms do to help their children with situps and pushups!". Indeed!

Well.. the result of that conversation in this blog. I supervised S with situps for a period of 2 minutes. But, hopefully I can put in a little more time into this blog.

until next time..