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Frozen Pea Snacks
Submitted by community on Thu, 14/05/2009 - 9:09pm
In our house, with a 2 ½ year old and a 1 year old, we’ve discovered a trick that can ease this pressure and I want to share it with you. It’s not television, nor sugary snacks, not locking them up the other end of the house, yelling or threatening time out. It’s not pleading with them to stop crying, sending them outside and locking the door or bathing them early even though all of these weapons have been considered, and used with varying degrees of effect by many of us in the past. We even tried child gates across every entrance to the kitchen. This, while stopping the kids from getting in the oven, unfortunately causes them to behave like very unhappy criminals protesting their innocence from a maximum security prison cell. The irony is that the children hanging white knuckled and wailing on the bars are free and those in the kitchen preparing dinner are incarcerated, yet you can’t explain that to a two year old. The trick that eventually worked in our house is frozen peas. Frozen peas are cheap, clean, healthy, fun and they’re not going to spoil dinner. They’re also icy cold so not evil like all the other vegetables apparently are. Pour a handful of frozen peas straight from the bag in the freezer into a bowl and serve. The only downsides to this so far are that when the peas are spilt, they have to be picked up one at a time and when you run out of frozen peas, frozen mixed vegetables don’t seem to have the same effect. This week anyway... -Dave Smart Trackback URL for this post:http://diyfather.com/trackback/1077
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They call it the “Arsenic Hour.” Who “They” are and why they call it Arsenic, I don’t know. According to the dictionary, Arsenic is a grayish-white element having a metallic lustre, vaporizing when heated, and forming poisonous compounds. We’re just talking about the time just before dinner where the kids are hungry. Mum and Dad are stressed and busy, and the kids either want to be right under the busiest feet or crying.
Ive found this is a great
Ive found this is a great way to stop the ow i hurt myself cry, you ask them where they hurt themself, normally its the toe or knee. mention that you are going to get a bag of frozen peas to put on the hurt area to stop the inflamation. 9 times out of 10 the peas will be demanded to be eaten and not to be placed anywhere near the sore area. Upon asking why my 2 and half yr old daughter, she says that if she eats the peas the cooling sensation will occur at the point of soreness. Well im not going to go into great dicussion with her on that point as long as she feels better after eating the peas. And the answer is aways YES and thank you
The info comes from my two
The info comes from my two greatest teachers, Sophie, aged 2 and Joseph, aged 1!
And a bit of trial and error...
Great article , really
Great article , really interesting, hopefully you’ll write many more just like this.Out of curiousity though, where do you get all your information from?Anyways, keep up the great work!