Ask any child what their favorite part of any story they have ever heard is and they aren’t going to tell you that it was the pretty flowers outside grandma’s house or the way the birds sang in the background. Their most favorite part of all is going to be the character that they identified with and related to the most. Even children as young as two have a favorite character in a story. This is why it is very important that you learn to write children’s characters specifically aimed for children.
There are the obvious reasons as to why as a writer you should focus on your characters, such as plot creation. Think about it… can you really deliver a story that is going to draw your reader in and make them connect with what is happening if you have flat characters, or worse, no characters? It may be possible, but very difficult. Characters give a story life. Think about a few of the classics, Winnie the Pooh, who do you identify with in that story? Is it Eeyore the lovably sad donkey, or Pooh the eternal optimist? The funny thing is that if you know the characters in Winnie the Pooh, you can look at the people in your life and admit that you know a Piglet, a Rabbit, a Kanga and Roo. While they are stuffed animals that come to life in Christopher Robin’s imagination they are believable.
Another reason that you want to learn to write children’s characters well is that characters can stand on their own. While there is no story without the characters, there is always characters even if there is no story. A wonderful example of this is in the Wizard of Oz. Toto is Dorothy’s dog, he has no lines accept for an occasional bark here or there… yet he has a story of his own. He takes on the evil witch on the farm, is able to run away from the witch… takes on the big lion… and really saves Dorothy as he goes out to find the Scarecrow, Tin Man and the Lion. No, the Wizard of Oz is not about Toto. He is a character all on his own, who created his own story.
We can use Toto as an example of how characters control the plot and the twist and turns in the story. Had Toto not gone to find the Scarecrow and everyone, would the witch have gotten the shoes from Dorothy in a malicious manner? If it wasn’t for Rabbit, would Pooh Bear have ever gotten out of the honey pot he was stuck upside down in? We would have completely different stories if it wasn’t for the characters in the stories we love.
The next question you should be asking now is, “how to write children’s characters that are believable?” Good that you asked, because believable characters are so important. This isn’t to say that you can’t have a mouse that can cook and save a restaurant. It means that you have to think about who your reader is. So best way to learn to write children’s characters is to think about the children reading the book. If you are writing for 14 year olds, then your approach to character development is going to be quite different then if you are writing for 4 year olds. The reason is because at 14 children have more experience to draw from then a 4 year old. So while at 4 years old, believing that eating spinach can give you incredible muscles so that you can pick up a truck and save your best friend… while at 14 the child is going to go “Yeah right,” and put the book down not to pick it up again.
Another item to consider is the goal of your characters. When you are thinking about how to write children’s characters you need to think about what each character is after. Let’s go back to our earlier examples, Pooh is always after honey. Young children can relate to Pooh because at 4, 5 and 6 they can relate to wanting their one favorite thing all the time, so badly it hurts. Or maybe it’s Piglet who is afraid of everything, like dark places…most kids that age are afraid of the dark. In the Wizard of Oz, which has characters that kids of all ages can relate to, they relate to them for different reasons. Young kids relate to Dorothy because of the magic shoes that can take her home. Older kids because her aunt and uncle are unfair and didn’t give her what she wanted so she ran away.
This is only the beginning of learning how to write children’s characters. There is so much more the goes into creating children’s characters so that your story reaches out and grabs your young readers. Don’t you want to learn to write the next Harry Potter… or Winnie the Pooh? Create believable children’s characters to ensure your story gets their attention.
Lisa Brunel
Being a mom is a never ending job. There’s always homework to go over, dishes in the sink, laundry to fold, dinner to cook, shopping for shoes (again!), PTA meetings, bills to pay… Wouldn’t you just love to go on a vacation where you don’t have to worry about where to go for dinner and what activities to organize for the kids each day? and what about having a little private time without the kids?
If this is what you’re looking for, “All-Inclusive” resort is your answer.
Club Med (short for Club Méditerranée) is operated by a French corporation and offers all-inclusive vacation resorts in many parts of the world, usually in highly exotic locations. There are over 80 Club Med resorts around the world, with each resort offering an extensive list of services and activities in one single package.
These “All inclusive” packages include lodging, meals, soft drinks, use of facilities, a wide variety of sports activities, games, and shows. Alcoholic drinks are bought with bids which are purchased separately, although some locations now include alcohol and snacks in their package.
Many resorts feature outdoor buffet dining, daytime sports and activities, and evening shows performed by the Club Med staff which are called “GOs” (short for “Gracious Organizers”), and usually invite the participation of the guests, which are called “GMs” (short for “Gracious Members”), while the resort is known as a “village”. A unique feature of Club Med is the socializing of the GOs with the GMs, all playing, dining, drinking and dancing together day and night.
There are many villages that provide facilities for children of different ages, which are supervised by trained staff. Children are divided into age group clubs – “Baby”, “Petit”, “Mini”, and “Junior’s”.
Mini Club Med (4-10 years):
Mini Club Med is for kids ages 4 – 10 years old, and activities are included in the package for no additional cost:
Kids activities that include arts and crafts, soccer, sailing, in-line skating, games, “mini scientist” and other fun activities;
Clubhouse surrounded by an outdoor “funscape” area with toys, dollhouses, trains and slides;
Some resorts offer special activities (also included in the package) such as Mini Tennis, Flying trapeze, tennis, soccer, sailing, in-line skating, games, arts & crafts, mini scientist, and even Circus school where kids can learn juggling, walking the tightrope, jumping on the trampoline, swinging on the trapeze and clowning around in the circus workshops.
Juniors’ Club Med (11 to 17 years olds)
“Club Med Passworld” – an exclusive new zone just for kids and teens 11 to 17 years old, where they can enjoy many different activities, all included in the package price:
Performing Arts : Hip-hop, theater, shows, singing, musical instruments, sound mixing, magic, musicals, African dance;
Acting and Film: video, theatre, direction, editing;
Creative Activities: Jewelry, makeup, craft work, fashion, Brazilian bracelets, graffiti art;
Sports – flying trapeze, roller blading, climbing, bungy bounce, sailing, water skiing, windsurfing, beach volley, beach soccer;
Adventure and Discovery: Excursions, hiking, picnics;
Evening activities – “movie night” on the beach, “disco night”, “beach party”, “disco-roller”;
Baby Club Med (4-23 months) Care is provided 9:00am to 5:30pm for babies 4 – 23 months old, for an additional charge. The children are divided into two groups: not yet walking and walking up to 23 months.
Petit Club Med (2-3 years) Care is provided for toddlers (2 – 3 years old), for an additional charge.
For more details and photo gallery please visit the Kids Vacations section of our web site: http://www.cool-kids-places.com/kids-vacations-clubmed.html.
Dee Adams
http://www.articlesbase.com/travel-articles/vacation-with-kids-allinclusive-resort-clubmed-707777.html
When I tell people that my husband and have a blended family of five kids, two boys and three girls, I hear the obvious chuckle and the usual comment that our life is like TV show. They are, of course, referring to The Brady Bunch, an idyllic, fantasy-like sitcom of yesteryear where aside from Marsha getting hit in the nose with a football and Jan developing an allergy to flea powder, life was pretty much tame (and lame if you ask my kids). I do agree that my life is like a TV show, but more along the lines of a modern day reality program, like Survivor. When I see a group of adults bickering over coconut milk dressed in skimpy outfits in front of a roaring fire in the tropics all I can think is, “Big deal, where’s the challenge?” Try taking five cranky, bored, dirty, exhausted kids on a camping trip, in tight quarters, in the rain for five days. Survive that! Better yet, see if you can pack five lunches every morning, cook dinner for seven every night, attend four different soccer games in one day, wash twenty loads of laundry a week and feign interest in your daughter’s story about the weird kid in her class who eats paper.
My life is far from ideal. My dogs smell, my house is never clean all at once and I forget to water my plants until they die and I have to throw them out. We manage. I have my priorities. At least I don’t forget to feed the kids. How could I? They’re always hanging over me begging for food. Then of course there’s the constant juggling of schedules of five children alternating among three separate households. Who left green bunny at Dad’s or their math textbook at Mom’s? It seems like something is always forgotten somewhere. Remembering where five kids have to be all the time is challenge worthy of an NFL offense coordinator. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gritted my teeth at one of my children to “get your cleats on, get in the car, we’re going to be late for soccer!” only to discover I’ve driven to the wrong field and forgotten it was my turn to bring snack. Oh, how I wish my life were like Carol Brady’s. I’d have time to read, and sleep, and eat without interruption. I’D HAVE A MAID. My husband and I would never fight and I could go the bathroom alone. I try to take comfort in the thought that at least I have better hair and I’m not walking around in double knit plaid pantsuits.
Truthfully, I love my life and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. When my first marriage ended in divorce and I reentered the single scene at age 40 I truly thought my days of coupledom were over. With two kids under the age of 9, and struggling to support myself as a single mom, not only did I not have the time for dating, I didn’t have the confidence either. I worried that my children would not accept a new man in my life or worse, that a new man wouldn’t accept them either. Childless men I dated were impatient with or lacked the understanding of the demands and challenges of having children. On the other hand, men with families were in the same predicament I was–no time and no energy. Even though I considered my kids my greatest asset, I was soon confronted with the harsh reality that not all of my dating prospects thought so. Refusing to believe that my children were a liability, or “baggage” as one man put it, I gave up on dating, retreated into myself and worried that I would spend the rest of my life alone. Then I met and fell in love with Paul, a loving father of three and we decided to marry and blend our family of five kids, four cats, three dogs, two fish and a bird. As a newly remarried mother of two and stepmother of three, I’ve decided to start this blog because I feel I have a message of hope and guidance to share with parents and children who are already in or who are thinking about entering into blended families.
When word spread that my husband and I were engaged, people I barely knew, mostly acquaintances from my kids’ schools, would approach me at soccer games or in the grocery store and flood me with questions. “How did you meet him? Does he have kids? How do they all get along? What are the custody arrangements?” The more I answered their questions, the more specific they became. “How do you get them all to school on time? How do you split the holidays? Do you really cook dinner for seven people every night and pack five lunches every morning?” (Yes, I do. Every other week. See my RECIPES FOR FAMILY DINNERS page to learn tips and menu ideas.)
I quickly came to realize that not only did they want advice, they wanted inspiration and assurance that it was possible for them to remarry and blend their families too. One dear friend of mine, once a single mom and recently remarried into a blended family told me, “You are my beacon of hope.” If that is the case, then I will try to shine as bright as I can, and most importantly, tell is like it is. The same friend also told me she admired my honestly. I try to keep it real. I’m ecstatically happy now, but when life stinks, and often times it can, I’ll make sure to let you know. We all have challenges and no one’s life is a bed of roses. Please read and write comments so we can laugh and cry together, gnash our teeth, wring our hands, share our joys and triumphs, and most importantly learn from each other.
We are the Shwanda’s , which is not our real name. It is a combination of our two last names that our kids came up with one day when they were playing a computer game called Sims. The object of the game is to design and build a house and create a family to live happily in it, which is exactly what we did. This is our story.
Note: I know many people who read this blog already know me. With regard to the general public, in the interest of protecting my family’s privacy, I have changed their names. I will refer to my husband as Paul, his oldest son, 17 as Sam, the younger boy, 15 as Mark, and his daughter, 11 as Cheryl. My oldest daughter, 15 will be called, Sophia and my youngest daughter, 12 as Eva. As for me, just call me Carol. This should be very interesting since I can’t remember their names now.
To read my blog go to: www.shwanda.com
Carol Shwanda
http://www.articlesbase.com/parenting-articles/how-one-couple-took-a-second-chance-on-love-and-blended-five-kids-four-cats-three-dogs-two-fish-and-a-bird-722540.html
Most of us think that kids and cooking school does not suit together but the truth is very much different from this thinking. All of us are aware of the fact that children are good at learning. They learn quickly how to create and design then why not opt for cooking. The best part is that childhood is the time which is most suitable to learn cooking.
Kids and cooking schools can go together easily. Many schools undertake this responsibility to teach kids and parents the art of cooking. You can also teach the same to them at home. If you feel that it is difficult to do so, then let them attend cooking school courses from local schools near to your place. For several reasons, this could be an ideal arrangement.
Now the question arises of what kids should cook. There are various reasons for which kids and cooking schools work. Some of the reasons on why you should invest your time or money in teaching children cooking is as follows:
1) If your kid wants to become a professional chef, then it would be a boost for his or her morale and career to enrol him or her in a cooking school. Kids always love such arrangement. Some may become baker one day or a next restaurateur who would rule the world by his or her taste. By letting the kids to explore their interest you would help them work for their future.
2) Art of cooking would help chidren develop life skills that would be beneficial for them all over the life. It would help them to take proper care of themselves even after they leave nest. Such children would not have to suffice on junk meals as they can prepare healthy snacks and meals for themselves.
3) Cooking helps to teach kids responsibility, eating healthy food and learn about the foods. In long haul, the knowledge about the food they consume makes them aware of what they are intaking in their bodies and helps them to control their diet. It also helps them to teach food safety, kitchen safety tips and how to manage their money if they had to purchase vegetables or other types of food.
These are only some of the many reasons for which you should teach your kids the art of cooking. Various opportunities are there if you are looking for a cooking school. You may opt for professional culinary arts schools or community colleges for people of any age group.
Moreover, if your child is capable of prepairing his food then he or she can try various new foods. Kids would love to eat this healthy diet they have cooked.
Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/cooking-tips-articles/3-benefits-of-teaching-your-child-to-cook-708676.html
Wine doesn’t only make an exceptional complement to you meal, it can also be used to cook up an exceptional meal itself!
No respectable chef would ever allow his or her kitchen to run out of wine for cooking. Wine is an integral part of French and Chinese cooking, and is also the basis for good marinating and barbeques. It finds good company in the kitchen with vinegar, fish paste, and soy sauce which all lend a tangy flavor to all sorts of dishes.
Many are tentative to using wine in cooking because of the many questions they may have. Here are a few answers to the questions that most people want to know when using wine in cooking.
1. Does wine quality affect your cooking? Whether you use normal wine or a quality wine for your cooking doesn’t make a difference in the flavor of your dishes. Save your quality wine instead for sipping and use the regular wine for cooking.
2. I’m worried about whether the wine can make me or my kids tipsy It depends on how you cook your dishes. Alcohol in the wine evaporates at 172 degrees. Also you will never add too much wine to any dish, so it is very unlikely that any wine fortified dish can make you tipsy. This allows anyone – even those that do not drink wine for religious and personal reasons – to use it in their cooking.
3. I’m afraid I might put too much wine in my dishes. Will it ruin its flavor? You will have to proceed carefully when working with wine as it adds a powerful flavor to any dish. You will generally want to follow recipes until you get the hang of using wine. You will then be able to add or lessen the wine you use for a certain recipe.
Make sure you allow the wine to cook a bit before adding more to a dish. It usually takes 10 minutes for it to exhibit its full flavor. Less is more when initially experimenting with wine.
4. What is the difference between cooking wine and regular wine? Cooking wine has salt and chemicals added which make them unfit for drinking. While it is reported to be better for cooking, you will want to steer clear of using this unless the recipe specifically calls for it. This will probably be done most often in Chinese recipes.
Jerry Shannon
The steady rise in a number of nations` weight gains amongst their populations has heard the alarm bells ringing at what many describe as an obesity epidemic. It is generally agreed that something must be done to put a halt to the overweight problem, otherwise the cost to health and life itself will be staggering.
A public education campaign by New York city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene – five advertisements, which have been posted in 1,000 subway cars – struck a variety of themes. It was designed to make commuters aware of what unhealthy eating can do to the body, as well as showing the number of calories contained in example dishes.
Childhood obesity in Europe is growing at an alarming rate and is accelerating rapidly.
In 2005, 14 million children were categorised as overweight or obese with an estimated 400,000 children entering this category every year. In 2007, the number has risen to 22 million.
There are serious health consequences for obese children now, and as they grow up.
Around 20,000 obese children have type-2 diabetes, over a million obese children are likely to show signs for cardiovascular diseases, and over 1.4 million may have early stages of liver disorder.
Obese children are more likely to become obese adults, meaning they will be at higher risk of developing cancer, heart disease and suffering from depression.
Preventative measures have been drawn up to make younger ones at school more aware of dietary needs which will, if taught from a very early age, help children learn about what goes into food, the best ways of cooking, healthy recipes and so on, so that they will benefit in their later lives.
Research has shown a link between nutrition in early childhood and improved productivity and overall health later in life. And a study recently published in the medical journal The Lancet offers the first direct evidence that eating well as an infant and toddler stands to increase earning potential as an adult. It`s getting essential that children learn to cook at school.
Soaring obesity levels look set to drain local health and public service budgets, which will mean higher taxes for all, experts warn.
Obesity could cost NHS in England £6.3bn by 2015 if no effective action is taken says the Department of Health.
According to recent statistics, obesity kills more than 9,000 Britons a year.
Last year, the Government-commissioned Foresight report warned that unless urgent action was taken half of all Britons could be obese by 2050.
In 2008 a warning was given that heavily overweight schoolchildren faced dying eleven years younger than their slimmer classmates.
So, what is being done to improve youngster`s education with regard to cooking?
In Canada, for instance, Toronto’s Rising Chefs Culinary Centre, introduced the art of food preparation to kids three and older. Classes are taught by an executive chef with more than 20 years experience and a designation of certified chef de cuisine, the highest accreditation awarded in the culinary profession in Canada. The owners say that kids who learn to cook for themselves stand a better chance at avoiding obesity.
An array of week-long options are served up at this year-round kids’ cooking school. Spark an interest in global flavours with the World Tour camp; each week explores food from a different part of the world, including the Mediterranean, Europe, Asia, the South Pacific, the Americas and the Caribbean. Kids spend the day preparing two dishes and learning about the country they’re from. Tweens may prefer the one-week Culinary Boot Camp, where they’ll learn the art of food presentation, concoct delicious sauces, pastas and meat dishes, and visit local farms. Or there’s the Baking Boot Camp, which schools your child in breads, pastries, desserts and piping techniques. Ages six to 12.
From their website – “Welcome to Rising Chefs home on the web!
We would like to thank you for taking the time to learn more about our wonderful company. We specialize in making cooking fun! Based in the Greater Toronto Area or GTA we cater to kids, teens, and adults who want to learn how to cook. Never before has a Toronto cooking school put as much energy and time into making healthy recipes, healthy eating choices and great food come together in so many comprehensive classes. “
Rising Chefs students who are five and older will get to cook themselves, while youngsters aged three and four will be introduced to gastronomy through measuring, mixing and other hands-on activities.
North District Middle School in Varnville, South Carolina, USA, was selected from more than 60 applicants nationwide to receive the first-ever School Nutrition Foundation’ Winston Industries Equipment Award. The school kitchen, serving the only middle school in Hampton School District One, will receive quality commercial kitchen equipment including Holding Cabinets, Holding Drawers and a Steamer from Winston Industries, Inc. – a leading foodservice equipment manufacturer located in Louisville, Kentucky. The award was applied for in order to update the 40-year-old kitchen equipment that often needs expensive repairs.
As school nutrition programs nationwide provide healthy school breakfasts and lunches to students at a national average of less than $2.00 per balanced meal, costs to upgrade and replace kitchen equipment are often difficult to cover. For this reason, the School Nutrition Foundation’ Winston Industries Equipment Award was created in 2007 to assist school nutrition programs to secure the equipment they need to continue to offer quality, nutritious meals.
About the School Nutrition Foundation
The School Nutrition Foundation, established in 1964, is a non-profit corporation that provides high-quality professional development, financial aid and research programs to child nutrition professionals and members of the School Nutrition Association (SNA.) The Foundation’s commitment to the child nutrition community is integral to implementing positive change in school meals and, ultimately, to the health of school children. SNA is a national, non-profit professional organization representing more than 55,000 members who provide high-quality, low-cost meals to students across the country. The association and its members are dedicated to feeding children safe and nutritious meals.
In England cooking lessons are to be compulsory in England’s secondary schools for children aged 11 to 14.
Pupils will learn to cook for an hour a week for one term. Poorer pupils’ ingredients will be subsidised.
Cooking is an optional part of the design and technology curriculum, but is not currently taught in all schools. The move is part of the strategy to tackle obesity, as experts believe 1m children will be obese in a decade.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families says that about 85% of secondary schools do offer cookery, (cooking), in some form. It wants those schools to make the change immediately, and the rest by 2011.
All 11-year-olds in England will be able to receive a free cookbook under a programme aimed at tackling obesity. Head teachers will be able to order the booklet, which has recipes for favourites such as spaghetti bolognese, roast chicken and jacket potatoes.
Primary pupils
It might come as a surprise to many parents but cookery – or food skills – is already, theoretically at least, compulsory on the primary school curriculum. As they learn about nutrition, food groups and the science of food, children are expected to progress from cutting up fruit to baking bread.
In practice, either because they don’t have trained staff or the facilities, few schools do much, if any, hands-on cooking with children. Now that cooking is to be taught to secondary school children, public health campaigners’ focus has switched to giving younger and more impressionable children a better and practical food education.
Primary school teachers are not given any training in teaching cooking, although there is a scheme for secondary food teachers to pass on skills to primary school staff. Very few primary schools have any facilities for children to cook in, either. In Wales a commitment to teach under-11s how to cook has been made.
But critics have expressed concern about the practicalities of the idea.
Clarissa Williams of the National Association of Head Teachers said the training of food technology teachers had been neglected for so long it would be difficult to see the strategy through.
Children will have to participate in a one-hour lesson each week for a whole term, in the bid to teach nutritional lessons that put a stop to obesity. Many may think this is an excellent idea, with support from TV chef Jamie Oliver and parents that relieve themselves of the pressure to cook meals that must be green, lean and tasty because now, their children can do it.
Whether just one hour a week is enough though is debatable. Just as cooking needs time, so does teaching it. Practical cookery in an hour is impossible, it limits the number of dishes taught and becomes rushed, so already many believe the Government’s plans are flawed – a two-hour lesson a week would certainly be more useful if the plan intends longevity in Britain’s educational scheme.
The situation in Germany, however, is different. Neither elementary school nor high school curricula require instruction in food-preparation skills or on how to run a household. Only occasionally will a high school offer these subjects as electives.
Sadly, the number of children who are taught food-preparation skills at home is continually declining. Scientists bemoan the loss as more and more students grow up without the necessary skills for running a household.
This is where Aid Infoservice came into the picture. It has instituted a program of instructional building blocks for elementary students by establishing a “Nutrition Competency Driver’s License.”
The core of this curriculum, comprised of six or seven two-hour classroom sessions, focuses on practical experiences with food ingredients and kitchen tools, but does not include experience in an actual kitchen lab.
Geoff Cummings
http://www.articlesbase.com/food-and-beverage-articles/why-children-need-to-learn-to-cook-in-school-723540.html
Me and this girl have become friends over the past semester. I am a med student, and she is pre med. So anyway, we’ve become friends. We get along really well. She thinks my friends are cool. We’ve spent time alone and open up to each other easily.
Lately I think we’ve been getting closer. Like she seems a little more playful. Maybe it’s just me. But anyway, I told her I had learned to cook, and she was excited. She said that I should demonstrate for her. One thing lead to another, and when break is over she is coming over and we are going to cook dinner for each other.
Here’s the thing. Neither of us have ever been in a relationship. We aren’t kids. Just both kinda shy and busy. I don’t think either of us is good at sending signals or reading them. I don’t even know if she really likes me.
I want this dinner to go well. So I chose a new recipe to make for her. I’ve asked the roommates to be out for the evening. I have something nice to wear. And I was planning on us watching a movie together, like before dessert or something.
Is there anything else I should or shouldn’t do? What can I do to find out if she is interested in me or not?
That sounds really cozy and prefect. I think you should make something fun, with a lot of spices and then a really messy dessert, so it will be cute when she has powder all over her face!
You shouldn’t act like it isn’t a date. Show your feelings subtly. Flirt with her, let her catch you looking at her in a ‘I think you’re beautiful way’ and try to flirt. Since you don’t have much experience, you might feel awkward. Just touch her, not super sexually, just lightly on the shoulder or push her hair out of her face. Make her feel wanted!
I don’t think there’s anything else you can add to the date, because since you aren’t together yet, you don’t want to do anything too extravagant.
You sound like a really great guy! This girl is lucky. =) And she obviously likes you if she’s coming over to your house alone.
in my real world class(learn about cooking,money,etc.) i was in the group with the mentally handicapped, cause i’m new and they haven’t figured everything out, the teacher wouldn’t let us do an easy paper that we were SUPPOSED to do, and when we got to making our project she would tell us to do one thing, just to tell us to go do something else, what were we doing, why are you standing, you haven’t done this yet, this still needs to be done, and this, its not going to work.When you are working, she yells at you, as all the other kids are having fun. When you aren’t working shes yelling at you. all in this raising bloodpressure voice. this was in like a half hour period, and i just wonder how is she not fired? she is also the person who watches people in detention.
ugh, stupid me, i always thought paras were supposed to help!
I really want to report this @!#&
The saddest thing I saw once while I was a high school student, 14 years ago. There was a student in a wheelchair sleeping, and left alone in a dark room. I felt so sad for the student not being supervised by anyone.
I want to learn to cook well and i am 13. I can dice, cut, boil and actually do alot of things. but i dont know how to cook or what to cook. I would prefer to use carrots and potatoes but it has to be quick and easy because i already cut carrots and potatoes. any recipes or websites for kid cooking? anything wil help.
Hey,
These two websites have some easy and good recipes for kids to try out if you want to check them out:
http://www.easy-kids-recipes.com/easy-recipes.html
http://www.childrensrecipes.com/
This is a yummy easy recipe using diced potatoes:
Golden Diced Potatoes
| 45 min | 15 min prep |
This is a recipe I got out of a Tastes of Home cookbook and then tweaked to our tastes. They taste just like seasoned potato wedges and would be great served with some ranch or ketchup, but they are a bit more grown up than eating the wedges. They are simple to make and look great too!
SERVES 4 (change servings and units)
Ingredients
3/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon seasoning salt
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon cumin
1/4 teaspoon paprika
3 large potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2 inch cubes
1/2 cup butter
Directions
1In a large resealable plastic bag, combine first seven ingredients.
2Add 1/2 cup potatoes at a time, shake to coat.
3In two large skillets (you need two so you can fit them all in without overlapping) melt half the butter in each.
4Add potatoes, cook and stir over medium heat for 25-30 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
5. Enjoy
This is one using diced carrots thats also really good:
Easy Cheesy Peas & Carrots
1/8 cup milk
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/3 cup cream cheese
1/8 cup shredded mild Cheddar cheese
1/4 cup soft cooked peas
1/8 cup diced cooked carrots
Parmesan Cheese
Shredded mozzarella cheese
What you do:
Blend milk and cheeses together until smooth, then stir in peas and carrots.
Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and shredded mozzarella cheese.
Hope this helps out some!
HELP! Me and my fiance live together now. And these few days we had fights because of food. I am already out of recipes that I know. So, he complain about my cooking. I feel bad because he feels depress after he eat my cooking. He works 12 hrs a day and he said that he always look forward for the foods that I serve for him after a long tiring day. And he said that if I really love him I should be willing to learn a better cook for him because it’s a part of a family values ( a wife cook for her husband and kids ). I am a Filipino and he is mix Chinese and Vietnamese living in US. So, it’s kinda hard. Please help me. Any cuisine will help.
Get rid of him or tell him to cook!