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This week Erin, Megan and Valerie talk about the various issues involved in getting kids to eat. For the most part we all agree that it’s OK to let a kid miss a meal but it’s not always that simple.

• Don’t be a short order cook
• Parenting and Kids
• Chasing them down to get food into them???No Way!
• Promo A Gardeners Notebook
• Stay at the table until everyone is done eating
• Restaurant trained kids so Parents don’t have to be trained to go to kid restaurants all the time.
• Ask to be excused from the table
• No snacks later if you don’t eat meals
• Promo: Pizza Go Here
• No Clean Plate Club and keep portion size down
• Kids Health
• Nipple Confusion in reverse
• Rejecting Solid Foods
• Less than zero Percentile in weight
• Occupational Therapist A/K/A My Hero
• Let toddlers help make the meal
• Let them have flavor! (If they want it)
• Dealing with gaging toddlers
• Sarahs Cucina BellaHonest Baby
• Feedback from Nobilis

 

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We are three moms who love our kids enough to know that sometimes you have to be a mean mo

m. Each week we discuss the things that come up in our adventures of raising kids.

Primary topic this episode is keeping kids (and parents) happy and healthy during visits to summer time amusement parks. This is part 2 of 2.

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• Findng a calm place for down time at the park

• • Guest Relations
  • First Aid center
  • Online site for the park
    

• • Parent trade off so one parent can rest
  • Shows as rest time
  • pre-planning
    
  • Fan Websites for the park
  • Employees of the park

• Watch for sensory overload
• Don’t threaten to leave if you don’t plan to make good on it.
• Tweens (10-12)
• Teens *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla_and_Charybdis

From my (Megan) time spent working at day camps I found the following to be useful for kids between 5-10 whether they are yours or not.

I take them to a central location, The Walt and Micky statue at the center hub of Disneyland for example. Then give them a talk with the following highlights.

1. There are 6 of you and 1 of me so it is your responsibility to know where I am not the other way around. I’m not abdicating responsibility for watching them, just making them feel some of the responsibility.
2. If you get lost, DON’T STRESS! Stay where you are for 5 minutes. we will notice you are gone and go back to where we last saw you.
3. If we don’t return in the 5minutes come back to this meeting spot if you can. If you can’t then find an employee and tell them you are supposed to meet your leader (parent) at the _______________. The employee may wan to take you to a lost kid center and that is fine too. I will find you and we won’t leave without you.
4. All purchases will be made after lunch.

• Spray bottle

Check in with Guest relations if you or your kids have any special needs.

Special thanks to George Hrab for our intro and outro music and to Gregory Lemon for his voice over tallents.