Denise Schipani / 6 Comments / family life, kids and food /
Going on eleven years ago, I gave birth to a very hungry baby. We had about a week in which we weren’t exactly in sync, milk-wise, but once my milk came in? Man could that kid drain a breast and demand the second one. Two memories reliably make me laugh. One was the day my […]
Denise Schipani / 8 Comments / in the news/media, kids and food / Baby Einstein, Kellogg's, Shredded Wheat, truth in advertising to kids /
I’ll keep this one short; it’s been a long posting week, and there’s still a whole bunch of June left to go in this WordCount 2013 Blogathon I’m involved in! So there’s this: Apparently, Kellogg, makers of Shredded Wheat, have had to apologize — and answer to a lawsuit — after ads that ran in […]
Denise Schipani / 3 Comments / kids and food / craigslist, picky eating /
Oh, dear God in heaven someone tell me that the ad, below, which someone found on a Phoenix craigslist board, is some kind of “I dare you” hoax. Because if this is even a teeny bit true, I think I’m going to throw up in my mouth a little. And you’ll see as you read […]
Denise Schipani / 6 Comments / kids and food / Danimals Yogurt, Dannon, high-fructose corn syrup, kid yogurt, sugar /
My kids love yogurt. They always have. But I now realize, looking back at the trajectory from their early, plain-yogurt-slurping days to now, when they pilfer my private stash of Greek yogurt in between sucking down squeeze yogurts, that I let too much sugar into the system. And once you go sweet, can you go […]
Denise Schipani / 8 Comments / discipline, family life, kids and food, kids and sports /
Since my last post was a sort of farewell (“here’s your hat, what’s your hurry?”) to August, I thought I’d check in with an I-love-September post. School has started. Despite a first September week plagued by high humidity and rain, it’s now my favorite, most energizing, soul-pleasing (not to mention hair-pleasing) weather of the year. […]
Denise Schipani / 31 Comments / family finances, kids and food, spoiled kids, summer / New York Times' Room for Debate /
I talk a good game about how important it is to let kids feel disappointment, to experience failure. That’s how they learn important life lessons, how they grow stronger, how they develop skills to get along in a world that, come on, is not fair or, as kids would prefer it to be, “even.” In […]
Denise Schipani / 21 Comments / family life, kids & snacks, kids and food, modern families, parenting in the media / drink pouches, Earth's Best Baby, food pouches, Gerber, Hain Celestial Group, Matt Richtel, Maureen Putman, Neil Grimmer, New York Times, Plum Organics /
Kids have been drinking out of pouches for a generation at least. It bears remembering that when many of us were in our juice-drinking days, juice boxes and pouches, as well as sippy cups, didn’t exist. Now, it’s more common in some circles for kids to drink out of so-called spillproof devices or disposable containers […]
Denise Schipani / 21 Comments / childhood obesity, exercise, kids and food, kids and sports / ban on large-size sodas, Daily Show, Gatorade, HBO, Jon Stewart, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, The Weight of the Nation /
I have never had a giant-size or super-size or Big Gulp size soda. In point of fact, I’ve had almost no regular (as in, non-diet) soda in my life, apart from a span between about age 12, when I suddenly decided I liked grape and orange soda or root beer, in cans served up out […]
Denise Schipani / 18 Comments / contest, family life, kids and food, mom bloggers / Debbie Koenig, Parents Need to Eat Too /
A few weeks ago, my friend Sally and I were emailing about dinner ideas; she’d invited us to her house for a causal family dinner, and wondered what might be good for her to make, and for me to bring to help out. She wanted to make pulled pork in her slow cooker, at which […]
Denise Schipani / 8 Comments / birthday parties, education, holidays, kids and food, school / candy as rewards in school, class mothers, class parties, food in school /
I got a letter from a reader recently that I want to share: Hi Denise, I love your blog. My only child, my son, is 5, and you certainly present an interesting take on many issues that I’ve faced as a mom. I was wondering whether you had an opinion on the candy culture […]