It’s all about creating rhythm. Young children thrive on the predictable. Earlier this month I shared with you my Monday is Taco Night recipe and this week I’m sharing with you my Aloha Chicken Recipe.

One of the family traditions that I have adopted in the past few weeks is assigning the same dinner to a particular day of the week.  So, Mondays have become known around here as “taco night.”  I am not one to like such a routine; I love variety when it comes to food and trying new recipes.
However, my 35 month old ds does not like variety nor is he open to trying new foods.  To help him eat what is for dinner, I am providing this structure so that we …

As moms of preschoolers, we have some common questions we want answered. Click on this post to see those questions. You’ll find a fascinating response to these questions from author Sharifa Oppenheimer during my interview on Blog Talk Radio this month. You can click and listen to the show, “How to Raise a Wholesome Child in a Toxic World,” in the right hand side bar.

It’s never too early to pick a night of the week that pulls everyone together to do something special together.  Since we’ve limited television viewing in our house we’re making Friday night “family night” for making homemade pizza and borrowing a movie from the library that we can all watch together. This last week was especially nice because we had Noni here - my children’s paternal great grandmother.  She’s full-blooded Italian and LOVES to bake pizza crust.

I thought it would be fun, but I had no idea how much …

I think we moms are always looking for a solution to the age-old problem of wanting our sweet cherubs to find something creative and engaging to do without our constant involvement.
We adore our children.  At the same time, we are thrilled when our preschooler discovers that building towers or marching zoo animals around the living room is great fun, long enough for us to check email or pay some bills.
The key is to find a way that your home takes away a lot of the work for you.  You don’t …

What if I told you that there’s a simple ritual you can do with your preschooler every day that will:
* help him eat better
* encourage him to have a better connection with you
* build his vocabulary
* develop fewer eating disorders
* engage in fewer risky behaviors as he gets older

The Fudus and their gorgeous babies with their Persio-Arabic names, Tajalli & Dayyan, managed to melt the hearts of even the toughest of skeptics, proving that theirs is a bond deeper and truer than those of most other marriages. The Fudus share a culture that all humans have in common: the spiritual one.