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Page 1: Tag Magazine - February 2014

Advertising Supplement | February 26, 2014 | Moscow-Pullman Daily News

Keep it Simple, Sweetie

Getting your child to eat more (and more types of)

fruits and vegetables

Eating the Rainbow

A Kids-Eye View of the Palouse

magazine

ALSO INSIDE: Books for Growing Up | How to make flossing easier for kids

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Got Talent?Awards Night & Talent Show

Showcasing community youth talent & recognizing volunteers in Latah County

Thursday, May 8, 2014 6PM-8PM Kenworthy Performing Arts Center

Follow the Latah County Youth Advocacy Council on Facebook for updates on award nominations,

auditions and how you can get involved.

NOMINATION FORM(for a group nomination, please attach a list of all names and addresses of group members)Nominee’s Name or Group Name: ______________________________ _________________________________ ___ __ Address _________________________City _______ Zip __ Phone #__________________ E-mail __________ Nominator’s Name: __ Address _________________________City _______ Zip __ Phone #__________________ E-mail __________ Relationship to Nominee ____ __ How long have you known the nominee? __ Select both a Division and an award Category that fits the nominee and the kind of service given. List only one Division: _____ 1. Youth 2. Adult 3. Group List only one Category: _____ 1. Commissioners Award 2. Community Service 3. Leadership 4. Cameron Award Nominator’s Signature __ List two people other than yourself who can verify the service providedby the nominee: Reference 1_________________________________Phone __ Reference 2_________________________________Phone __ Submit this form and a one-half page (150-300 words) letter that specifically describes the nominee’s activities and character. Include any special attributes or challenges that set this nominee apart from others. Describe the impact this volunteer has on the people and/or programs they serve. Include information about how much time, energy or skill was involved in their service. Describe the nominee’s level of commitment or dedication.

The Latah County Youth Advocacy Council is honoring our community’s outstanding youth and adults who are making a difference through volunteer work. During our LCYAC Awards Night and Talent Show, volunteers will be recognized for their contributions to our community by receiving the awards

listed below. If you know someone whose volunteer efforts deserve to be recognized on a community wide basis, complete a nomination form today! All nominees will receive a nomination certificate and award recipients will receive a recognition plaque that will be presented at the event. For questions contact LCYAC at 208.883.2268 or email [email protected]. Forms are also available at www.latah.id.us/yac

2014 LATAH COUNTY YOUTH ADVOCACY COUNCIL VOLUNTEER AWARDS

DIVISIONS Youth. Under 18 years of age (or still in high school) Adult. 18 and over (no longer in HS) Group. Any group of youth, teens, adults CATEGORIES Commissioners Award Presented to an individual who has shown great effort in creating a positive change in reducing substance use in Latah County Community Service Volunteer work that meets a need in the community through action, education, or service in promoting healthy lifestyles for our youth Leadership Award Volunteer work that betters the lives of youth in our community and demonstrates the ability to lead others toward a positive goal Cameron Award Presented to a deserving Latah County youth who has provided leadership in

working with a community coalition or on their own to facilitate positive youth development opportunities targeted toward reducing substance use in collaboration with youth, families, schools or communities within Latah CountyNOMINATION CRITERIA Emphasis is given to nominees whose significant contributions have been made in the last 18 months. The contribution of the individual or group must be within Latah County. Any community member (adult or youth) may nominate any youth, adult or group. A nomination form must be completed for each nominee. A one-half page (150-300 words) letter that specifically describes the impact of the nominee’s actions must be included. RETURN NOMINATION FORMS TOLatah County Youth Advocacy Council 220 E. 5th Street, Suite 325 P.O. Box 8068 Moscow, ID 83843 Fax: (208)882-8505 OR complete an on-line form at: http://www.latah.id.us/yac

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Latah County Youth Advocacy Council . . . . . . . . . . . 2Zeppoz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Emmanuel Lutheran Preschool . . . . . 5Moscow Food Co-op . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Community Health Association of Spokane . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Palouse Empire Gymnastics . . . . . . . 10Bookpeople . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Hodgins Drug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Eastside Marketplace . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

TAG ADVERTISERSKIDS ARE THEIR BUSINESS

ABOUT TAGTag is published three times a year in the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. The full magazine is available for viewing online by visiting dnews.com and clicking on the Special Sections link. For more information on how to advertise, contact the Daily News at (208) 882-5561.

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ABOUT TAG

Advertising Supplement | February 26, 2014 | Moscow-Pullman Daily News

Keep it Simple, Sweetie

Getting your child to eat more (and more types of)

fruits and vegetables

Eating the Rainbow

A Kids-Eye View of the Palouse

magazine

ALSO INSIDE: Books for Growing Up | How to make flossing easier for kids

By Sarah MacDonaldMoscow Food Co-op Communications Coordinator

If you’re a kid, it’s recommended that you consume 20 cups of fruits and veggies a week, coming to just over 1,000 cups per year, according to the

United States Department of Agriculture. But the difference between recommenda-tions and actual practice is pretty stark—a study conducted by the National Fruits and Vegetable Alliance found that kids ages 2-12 were actually consuming only 200-300 cups a year. While the sheer quantity of fruits and vegetables is important to achieve, it’s also important not to overlook the variety of produce—and therefore, the variety of nutrients—your child is eating.

But don’t panic. It’s actually really easy to introduce kids to fruits and vegetables, especially if you know a couple tricks of the trade. At the Co-op, our weekly playgroup Co-op Kids utilizes an excellent method that’s been proven to trump even the picki-est of eaters. It’s called “Eat the Rainbow” and it encourages kids to use their senses, including their sense of adventure, to try different foods that are separated by color. This lesson has been quite successful, and to our surprise, the kids latched on to some of the more unique items like toasted seaweed, edamame and herbal tea.

Here are some of our rainbow-inspired foods:

Red: red bell peppers, strawberries, tomato soup, cherry tomatoes, radishes and cranberry juice

Orange: sweet potato chips, carrots, orange bell peppers, dried papaya, cheddar cheese and tangerine herbal tea

Yellow: applesauce, corn, yellow summer squash, yellow bell peppers, yellow pear to-matoes, dried mango, pineapple and lemon slices in water

Green: toasted seaweed, celery, green apple, kiwi, edamame, peppermint tea, baked snap pea crisps, cucumber slices and a leaf tasting with spinach, basil, butter let-tuce and bok choy

Purple: beet chips, purple cabbage, eggplant, plums, huckleberries and purple grapes

White: cauliflower, jicama, parsnips, button mushrooms and fennel

Tips:Start small! When trying out new, excit-

Eating the rainbow: getting your child to eat more (and more types of) fruits and vegetables

See Rainbow Page 10

Erica Wagner/Co-op Digital Media CoordinatorWhile the sheer quantity of fruits and vegetables is important to achieve, it’s also important not to overlook the variety of produce—and therefore, the variety of nutrients—your child is eating.

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At the end of a recent after-school outing on cross-country skis, my 10-year-old seemed to have developed a strange new compul-

sion. He stood at the edge of the recently-plowed parking lot, reaching down and bopping himself in the head with big blobs of snow, again and again.

“Mom, you have to try this! It’s surprisingly fun!” he exclaimed, bending down to whap himself on the head. “The chunks have to be kind of big. Just yank one out!”

Reluctantly, I reached down and tried it myself. “It is fun!” I had to admit. His sister, 12, tried it, too. “It is fun,” she agreed, all of us puzzled.

“It hits your head, and then it explodes and it rains down on you,” my son noted.

“It’s a new tradition,” my daughter added, as their dad pulled into the parking lot on his way home from work, and we urged him to join us. He declined, though I’m

not sure why, since he routinely cracks hard-boiled eggs on his head.

By now it was dark, and my daughter and I were sit-ting in the car drinking hot chocolate. “Um, how long are you planning on doing this?” I called to my son.

“Until this whole thing is gone,” he said cheerfully, surveying the snow berm, which extended about a good hundred yards on either side of him.

Something interesting was going on here, I realized. The skiing had been fun—but that had been my idea, and involved equip-ment and preparation and a significant amount of exertion to get the kids off our

new beanbag chair. This snow-whapping was more fun, for our ten-year-old anyway, because it was his idea, because it was unexpected, because no one was making him do it.

Aha! I thought: simple pleasures.I was still pondering this a couple of days

later during the Moscow Safe Routes to School Polar Walk, when we participated in a “walking school bus” with about 40 other kids and parents. My kids resisted this, too, at first—we had to leave our house about half an hour earlier than usual—but every-one involved seemed to have a great time.

Afterwards, a few other parents and I decided that this had been so much fun that we would continue doing the walking school buses once a month. This small deci-sion thrilled me, and I celebrated our abil-ity to come up with a plan that represented a “just-noticeable difference,” the smallest possible step we could take that would be an improvement from our starting point when attempting to do more would cause

distress. Which brings me to the real topic of

this column: Keep it simple, sweetie. Small changes, simple pleasures. I did not have to discover, much less invent, a new winter sport for this column—I could let my child do it for me.

Time after time, some among us bust our butts where our kids are concerned. I’m not saying a certain amount of parental butt-busting isn’t warranted, only that recently I have felt the liberation and joy that comes from scaling back. Sometimes there are those among us who come forward and take big steps; they start schools or keep schools afloat or run the city or the science fair, and the rest of us do what we can to chip in. But in situations where the stakes are not dire, I have recently felt great relief in agreeing with other parents that we will simply do what we feel good about doing, and not more.

UNPLUGGEDBY JudY SoBeloff

Keep it simple, sweetie

See Simple Page 11

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by Jesica DeHart and Carol Spurlingfor Tag!

“Growing pains” aren’t just physical. The transition from child to adult is never easy. Fortunately,

lots of books are being written for just this in-between age. The common element is the angst of growing up, searching for one’s way in the world, and trying to fit in, along with the excitement and adventure of learn-ing more about oneself and discovering one’s strengths.

A Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier (March 2014) ages 12+

This compelling and well-researched historical novel by Moscow author Makiia Lucier features 17 year

old Cleo, a headstrong girl whose already unconventional life is turned upside down when the Spanish flu arrives in her home-town of Portland, Oregon, in 1918.

Cleo is supposed to remain quarantined in her boarding school, but she sneaks out and, because she knows how to drive and has access to a car, ends up volunteering for the Red Cross. Disease and death cross her path her very first day on the job, but so does Edmund, a young medical student working in the makeshift hospital where Cleo brings people stricken by the flu.

Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee (Jan. 2014) ages 9+

Within only a few pages, we knew this book would prove to be an all nighter. This

is a story within a story intertwined with a lustrous retelling of the story of the Snow Queen in a language absolutely dripping with invitation.

Ophelia, her father, and older sister have moved temporarily to a city where it always snows so that her father can complete a

short assignment at a museum with endless corridors, keyholes and mysteries. Behind one door, Ophelia discovers the Marvelous Boy and with this meeting unfolds yet an-other story of wizards and queens and spells and swords. Ophelia will risk everything to save the Marvelous Boy, who has been wait-ing for her to help him save the world.

West of the Moon by Margi Preus (April 2014) ages 10-14

Newbery Honor-winning author Margi Preus was inspired to write this story after reading her great-

great grandmother’s journals chronicling her journey from Norway to her new home in America in the 1800’s. The story is told by the fiercely independent and loyal Astri whose hard life seems to be a way of life that has become her normal. But deep inside she yearns for something better and more important: to be reunited with her sister.

Astri has an incredible imagination, and lives in a time and place rich with myth, magic and folklore. The journey is epic and the hardships to be endured along the way are monumental but through it all Astri reflects, endures and grows.

Ava and Pip by Carol Weston (March 2014) ages 8+

This is an absolutely endearing tale of two sisters told by Ava, the younger of the two. Their family loves

words and especially word play. Palin-dromes - words that are spelled the same both forwards and backwards - are a big part of not only all of their names but their dinner time fun.

Ava is in 5th grade and trying to fit not only into her world but also her home. At times she feels overshadowed by her par-ents’ extra attentiveness to her older sister. How do two sisters, as different as can be, fit into the same family and get their very

different needs met? Ava is determined to not only fit in herself but find a way to solve her sister’s extreme shyness.

The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith (April 2014) ages 12+

It all begins with two relative strangers on an elevator in New York City, when the

electricity goes out. Lucy and Owen are trapped in a dark elevator for hours. Once free, they set out to discover the darkened city under a rare star-filled night and in the process they form the beginning of a delicate friendship.

Once power is restored, both their lives spin literally in different directions as Lucy suddenly learns she is moving to Europe, and Owen and his Dad find themselves once again up-rooted and headed West. The year unfolds with these two tenuously linked by one strange night and postcards sent across many time zones. Both Lucy and Owen spend the year searching to understand where home exists and who they are to each other. This isn’t a long drawn out love story but a story rich with strong identifiable main characters who are tumbling into near adulthood while holding tight to the familiar.

Steering Toward Normal by Rebecca Petruck (May 2014) ages 9-13

This book richly steeped in the world of 4-H and FFA has so many outstanding things going for it, we

don’t know quite where to begin, but we are especially excited that the author has expressed an interest in visiting Moscow this summer on her book tour. Diggy Lawson is heading into 8th grade and things are looking good, but then his family unit dramatically changes with the arrival of a half brother and now there are a lot of new relationships and dynamics to stumble through.

This is a book rich with father-son-brother communication, struggles,

determination, humor and also plenty of cow poop. Sometimes what you thought was normal

gets steered in a whole new direction in this coming of age book thick with ranch-ing parallels.

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Metro Editorial

Few resources are as inexpensive yet inherently valuable as the daily newspaper. For as little as the loose change in their pockets,

readers can get all their local news, as well as learn what is going on overseas and, for sports fans, what happened during last night’s games.

For educators, newspapers can be a valuable teaching tool as well. Younger kids typically aren’t avid readers, but newspapers are often reader-friendly, with concise ar-ticles that aren’t as long-winded as chapters in a book. Teachers hoping to instill a love of reading in their pupils can put the local newspaper to work in a variety of ways.

l Teach kids the “5Ws (and the H).” Most adults recall the lesson of the “5Ws (and the H).” The 5Ws and the H are Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How. Newspaper articles are typically built around the rule that encourages reporters to answer these six questions in the first several paragraphs of an article. Teachers can give their students the newspaper and tell them to identify the 5Ws and the H. Students are likely to embrace the reader-friendly nature of news articles, and might just pick up their Mom or Dad’s newspaper around the house as a result.

l Teach the difference between editori-als and hard news stories. When using the newspaper as a teaching tool, teachers can give students two different articles, one news and one editorial. Before explain-ing the difference, ask kids to identify the differences. Chances are, kids will pick up on the main difference, that an editorial is an opinion piece that uses facts to support an idea, while a news story simply reports

the facts without giving an opinion. This can prove a valuable lesson for kids to learn, promoting reading comprehension and teaching kids to question the source of their reading materials in an analytical way.

l Encourage kids to read their favorite sections of the newspaper. Kids are kids, and they’re may not be interested in the front page stories or most of what’s included in section A. However, there are sections in every newspaper that can appeal to kids, and teachers and parents alike should encourage their kids to read those sections that interest them. The entertain-ment section might have stories about kids’ favorite movies, while young sports fans are likely to enjoy articles about their favorite teams and players. The goal is to get kids excited about reading, and many parts of the newspaper are filled with articles kids can enjoy.

l Use the local section as a teaching tool. Kids may or may not be interested in what’s going on in the world’s financial markets or even the nation’s capital. But the local section is something kids can often relate to, with stories about people and places they’re familiar with in their own towns. Human interest stories about local residents doing good deeds or about local businessmen and women setting trends might give kids a greater sense of pride in their community.

The local newspaper is a wonderful tool for educators to use with their students. If there’s not one already, teachers should contact their local school board or even their local paper to see if an agreement can be worked out where teachers can provide their students with the local newspaper every day.

Metro EditorialNewspapers are a valuable resource parents and educators can use to instill a love of reading in their kids and students.

Using newspapers to teach kids in the classroom

Metro Editorial

For years, the LATCH system standard for vehicles has been the preferred method of safely securing infant and child safety

seats into a car. But the LATCH system many parents have grown accustomed to is changing. A new law says it is safer to stop using LATCH with car seats that cater to older, heavier kids.

LATCH, which is an acronym for Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children, is a sys-

tem of restraints built directly into the seats and frames of vehicles. The LATCH system was introduced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration as a new child restraint securement system in 1999 in re-sponse to the challenges posed with seatbelt installation of child safety seats. The system has been available in many vehicle models since 2000. With LATCH, the child safety seat attaches to two anchors imbedded in the seats of the car as well as another anchor point located on the rear shelf, seat back, cargo area, or ceiling of the vehicle

when used with forward-facing seats. Many safety seats come equipped with LATCH straps that are compatible to the LATCH system in the vehicle.

While the LATCH system has helped maintain the safety of young passengers for more than 10 years, newer safety seats that accommodate larger children could be pushing the LATCH system boundar-ies. Lower anchors of the LATCH system take the majority of the force in a crash, and many are currently rated to restrain a seat and child with a combined weight of

65 pounds. There is not yet significant evi-dence to suggest the anchors will hold up in a crash with a heavier seat/child combo. When the LATCH system was developed, many child safety seats maxed out at a 30-pound passenger limit.

Various health and safety organizations have deemed it safer to keep children in harnessed safety seats longer before moving them to belted booster seats, which has propelled the industry to develop seats that can hold older, heavier children. However, whether the LATCH system can handle the larger seats is largely unknown.

New rules for LATCH system and bigger kids

See Rules Page 10

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Metro Editorial

It is well known that a combination of brushing, flossing and periodic dental checkups are essential to oral health. Some parents teach their

children to brush thoroughly early on, even taking them for dental visits at young ages so youngsters can become acclimated to the dentist’s office. But flossing is one component of oral hygiene that may be overlooked because many kids simply don’t enjoy it.

Flossing is one of those tasks that people understand they must do regularly, but many still do not. According to Humana Dental, flossing cleans bacteria and trapped food from between the teeth. Brushing only reaches the surface of the teeth, but floss is required to get into the small crevices to prevent bacteria from turning into plaque buildup. The American Dental Association recommends flossing at least once per day. It is far better to floss once a day and do a thorough job rather than several times a day and miss areas of the mouth by doing it quickly.

Children should be urged to floss regularly in addition to brushing. However, flossing can be cumbersome for young-sters who have yet to develop the dexterity needed to manipulate dental floss. There are many products available and techniques that can be used to assist children with cleaning between their teeth. The following are some flossing tips for kids.

l Begin the introduction to floss early. The younger children are introduced to floss, the more likely they are to embrace flossing as part of their oral hygiene rou-tine.

l Show visual proof of the benefits of flossing. Oftentimes, children are more likely to respond to something they can see. Show pictures of dental decay and what occurs when proper oral hygiene is not fol-lowed. This may help make the concept of flossing more attractive.

l Get the proper tools. Kids cannot floss unless they have floss products on hand. There are various age-appropriate flossers and types of dental floss available. Children may not be able to use dental

floss properly because of a lack of dexter-ity. However, floss picks are much easier to hold and work between the teeth, particu-larly for kids with small hands. Floss should always be on hand, whether at home or when you go on vacation.

l Let kids choose. Take kids down the dental aisle at the store and let them pick and choose which products they want to use. They may be more excited to brush and floss if they’re using something they picked out themselves.

l Lead by example. Children will be more likely to floss if they see their parents flossing. That means adults should floss regularly and let their children watch and learn.

Benefits of flossing

Removing bacteria and trapped food

from teeth has a number of benefits. Bacteria can cause bad breath, but flossing and brushing helps to keep breath smelling fresh.

Dirty teeth can lead to dental carries. Children may be more inclined to floss if they know they’ll be preventing cavities and avoiding potentially painful trips to the dentist.

Plaque trapped between the teeth and along the gum line that leads to periodontal disease puts a person at a greater risk for heart disease. There are some studies that show bacteria from the mouth can end up in the bloodstream.

Flossing is a necessary component of good oral hygiene. Everyone should floss, no matter their age, and children should begin flossing as soon as their mouth starts to fill out with pearly whites.

How to make flossing easier for kids

Metro EditorialFlossing is one component of oral hygiene that may be overlooked because many kids simply don’t enjoy it.

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Metro Editorial

If infants were born with an instruc-tion manual, early parenting would be much less stressful. Unfortunately for new mothers and fathers, tending

to a baby is often a system of trial and error. Every child is different, and what works for one may not work for the other. Similarly, a child may be born who is easily comforted and takes to sleep, while its sibling seems to cry all day long. Getting to the root of those crying fits can prove rather challenging.

Colic

When crying goes on and on with seem-ingly no cause, this could be indicative of something more significant than just a fussy baby. Infants use crying as a method for telling their caregivers that something is amiss. Cries can indicate dampness, pain, sleepiness, or other conditions. But crying with no apparent cause is defined as colic.

Colic is not a disease but rather a behav-ioral condition. Babies with colic cry for seemingly no reason and very often at the same time each day. Nothing seems to com-fort them. In addition to crying, the child may thrash around or clench fists.

Some believe that colic has its roots in the digestive tract, where there is the pres-ence of lots of air that may stem from slow intestinal motility. Others believe colic is linked to an overstimulated central nervous system. Still, colic is not a diagnosis, but rather a way to describe how a baby is behaving. The colicky behavior may be indicative of another underlying condition, such as acid reflux.

Acid reflux

According to the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse, acid reflux affects more than half of all babies under three months old and usually resolves itself between the child’s first and second birthdays. Acid reflux occurs when the lower esophageal sphincter, or LES, muscle remains open and enables stomach contents to flow back up through the esophagus and mouth. Infants have immature muscle development, and their LES may not open and close only when swallowing, enabling food to come back up. The reflux can occur when the baby cries, strains or eats too quickly.

Symptoms may include excessive amounts of spit-up, crying and pain while eating. An infant may drink breast milk or bottles quickly and gulp the liquid down because it is soothing, only to find that this exacerbates the problem. Infants with reflux may begin to cry when lying down. They may also arch their necks and backs during or after eating or spitting up. Some children have silent reflux, where the acid does not come out of the mouth, but rather the baby swallows it back down. Reflux babies may learn to associate food with pain and can develop aversions to feeding.

Whenever a child is exhibiting signs that go against the norm, parents can talk first to their child’s pediatrician. Different feeding or sleeping strategies may alleviate some of the crying. Medication or surgery may be needed in extreme cases, and a par-ent may be instructed to visit a specialist in gastrointestinal conditions for an accurate diagnosis.

Differentiating colic from acid reflux

Metro Editorial

Time and again research has proven the benefits of music education. Children who study music typically score better on

standardized testing and exhibit improved language and reasoning skills, and music education helps students with advanced mathematics lessons by improving their spatial and temporal reasoning. Involve-

ment in music and the arts can improve a student’s SAT scores and make the student well-rounded.

Despite these benefits, music and art education is slowly disappearing from the classroom. At many schools across the na-tion, stages are dark and band and chorus rooms are empty. Budget cuts have been unkind to music education programs. To

Students seeking private music lessons have options

If infants were born with an instruction manual, early parenting would be much less stressful.

Metro Editorial

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ing foods with kids, it’s natural for them to reject a few of the items you give them, regardless of how fun you make it. For this reason, we encourage parents to purchase smaller amounts of items when possible. Salad bars are a great place to start, as they often feature a wide variety of vegetables, fruits and grains to choose from. For instance, the Co-op salad bar features items like edamame, pickled red onion, beets with mint, spinach and sliced bell peppers.

Make Rainbow Rice! Cook up some brown rice and let kids add vegetables to it, naming the colors along the way. Some favorites include corn, peas, cauliflower, purple cabbage, broccoli and red pepper. For fun, vibrant colors, steam the vegetables before adding to the rice. During colder months, this technique can be applied to

Rainbow Soup, letting kids choose their own vegetables and beans to add to the stock.

Dip it! Even the pickiest eaters like to dunk their food in sauces, dips, and spreads. Providing an array of dips and spreads makes trying new foods fun while empowering the child to make choices. Try serving cut vegetables with almond butter, hummus or a mixture of applesauce, cin-namon and wheat germ.

Use your senses! The eating experience is so much more than just taste. Encourage kids to describe the texture and smell of each new food they try, and then when they taste it, ask them to make a comparison. Does star fruit taste a little like grapes? Do sweet potato chunks look like carrots? Mak-ing comparisons to fruits and vegetables the child already enjoys will encourage them to accept the new food.

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As a result, drivers who have a child and a car seat that together weigh more than 65 pounds are urged to stop using the LATCH system to secure the safety seat into the car and rely on the vehicle’s seat belts instead. The new law was put into effect in the United States in February 2014 and may be adopted elsewhere as time goes on.

Using the car’s seat belts may require a refresher course in safety and how to route the belts properly. Refer to your vehicle

owner’s manual as well as the instruction guide provided with the child safety seat. Seat belts will need to be fully extended and “locked” before they can be routed through the safety seat. Drivers are advised to still use the top tether of the LATCH system to further secure the head of the safety seat.

Drivers unsure about regulations can consult with their pediatricians and have child safety seat installation checked at various police stations, fire stations and first aid buildings.

Parents and other caregivers need to stay abreast of changes in safety guidelines for their children, as recommendations for child safety seats are always evolving.

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The child safety seat regulations that were in effect when he was a toddler may no longer be applicable now that he is a grade-schooler.

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keep up with the demand for technology in the classroom, certain school programs have to be scaled back, and art and music are generally the first to go. This leaves it up to parents to involve their kids in music education.

Private lessons have long been a great way for kids to learn music, and many such music coaches are former music teachers. With private lessons, kids get to benefit from working with certified in-structors, and parents are happy to make music a part of their youngsters’ lives. The following are a handful of ways parents can find private lessons for their kids.

l Word of mouth: Begin by asking neighbors or friends in the community if they know of any reliable music teach-ers. Someone is bound to know a person or have a connection to a music teacher. Speak with members of a community music ensemble, such as a church choir, or even amateur or professional musi-cians you see playing at a restaurant or bar. There’s a good chance you can get a referral. You may also have a friend or neighbor who is a talented musician and

will agree to offer lessons on the side.l Community music programs:

While schools may not have music classes, community centers offer programs for both adults and children. A community arts center may offer instrument train-ing and/or vocal lessons, so look into such organizations in your community. A community YMCA or a similar organiza-tion also may have after-school music programs.

l Nearby colleges: Music students at local colleges may want to make extra money by offering music lessons. They may be able either to meet at your home or use the music room on campus to conduct lessons.

l Newspaper classifieds: Tutors frequently advertise their services in the newspaper. Look in the classified section to see if anyone is offering music lessons. Many newspapers now offer their clas-sifieds both online and in print, so utilize both options to ensure your search is as thorough as possible.

Music education is important, but those seeking instruction may have to look outside of school. Private instruc-tors are available to help foster a love of the arts and mold creative, well-rounded children.

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I was at the University of Idaho pool the other night when the parent-tot class was beginning, and beheld 18 babies being introduced to the water by their parents. Watching them, I remembered when Fred and I did similar classes with our babies, and how right that felt—how we were do-ing something totally aligned with our de-sire for them to grow into fulfilled, healthy, happy bigger people.

As our kids get older, the path is often less clear, which is partly what was so ap-pealing about seeing those babies with their beaming parents.

My friend, Amy, mother of four, recently quoted a line from a parenting book that I happened to also remember, though neither of us could remember which book it came from. Amy mentioned that she hardly ever reads parenting books any more, and I realized that the same is true for me; now I tend to content myself with gleaning inspiration from reading their titles.

The parenting-book title currently

catching my eye is All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior. I can’t claim to have read beyond the opening pages, but the premise resonates. For middle-class parents, our children’s importance in our lives has increased to the point where they become not merely our projects but our employ-ers in a sense, as we devote increasingly more of our time, energy, and resources to molding them into the best people they can be. Which can leave some of us feeling as if we’re busting our butts, when maybe they and we would be happier if we backed off a little.

To which I raise a glass and repeat, “Simple pleasures, small changes.” So, dear Reader, when the snow conditions are next right, maybe you too will be tempted to pull over on some recently cleared road or parking lot and yank out a good-sized chunk with which to whap yourself gently in the head.

Judy Sobeloff is a teaching artist and freelance writer who lives with her family in Moscow.

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