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c SlMIVAY TY1M00 Wakm simii(;s, ori:(;o 9776 i June 20, 1986 Pa Five-year-olds can feel pressure Five-year-olds are generally hanov bathroom mav not be familiar to people who find themselvei satis- you, but the main thing is they are lying. They find life appealing as they bubble with affection and coope ration. But as with previous pleasant stages the mood changes at about age yi when a fresh set of strong demands and emotional upheavels affect their behavior. They seem to want too much,, try things that are too difficult, and make new claims on the center of attention. Children approaching six feel pressured by themselves and others and act more grown-up than they really are. During the fifth year, well-developed motor skills allow children to perform more complicated tasks like riding a two-wheel bike. Better eye-hand coordination lets-them lace and tie shoes and handle a knife and fork more easily. They can use paint, scissors, pencils, or other art materials constructively. They now show right or left hand preference. Initiative, or planning and organi zing, is characteristic of this age. Their plans and routines in the trying to get the job done. Efficiency comes a bit later. Five-year-olds reach a new level of cooperation in play with others. Most of them are happy, successful group participants. They want to be in on everything others do. But they are not ready for competitive games and are very discouraged by losing. Play for preschoolers is different than it is for adults. It's a child's beginning stages of thinking, planning, and organizing. These are also the years of their peak imagination the rules for play are always their own. Socially, five-year-olds have made great progress in learning what is "right" to say and do. They are more sympathetic toward others and usually in control of their emotions. They enjoy their indepen dence and like to be given responsi bility for running simple errands or taking a message to a neighbor. Although fives can distinguish between what is true and false, they may exaggerate or tell "tall tales.". Preschoolers deal with a shakey sense of reality and many unknowns. Was it real or wasn't it? Is it mine or, isn't it? Honesty is learned gradually. It begins to take shape in a child's thinking during this year. Families communicate the value of truth or not taking other's things with and without words. Lies may be imagina tive talcs, failure to understand , your questions or given in anticipa tion of punishment. Taking things is part of learning to distinguish what is theirs and what belongs to others. Even knowing that something belongs to someone else docs not wipe out a desire to have it. This is not stealing. Accept lying or taking things as mistakes and help them understand why it is wrong. Five-year-olds can understand reasons for behavior. Without being preachy or making them feel like criminals, help them return articles to their owners and praise their honesty. They soon get the idea that certain things belong to others. Make sure they have their own treasures too. Five-year-olds talk a lot! They are very curious and constantly ask , how, what, when, and where. They have many stories to tell that flow more logically now. They'll sit for a chat or enjoy talking on the tele phone. Their interest in exploring words is rapidly expanding. They ask. "What docs this say?" It's lime-consuming for vou. but learn ing words is a powerful accomplish ment for fives. Clocks and telling time become a new source of interest. They have little concept of next week or next month, but. when the clock hands are straight up and down, it's time for dinner. Children of this age are interested in everything from the smallest leaf to the biggest machinery. Satisfy this yearning to see and touch things in your surroundings a walk in the woods, a trip to a farm, or watch street construction. Collect and save objects from their excur sions for stories and books. A ORGGON STATG UNIVERSITY GCTGNSION 56RVICG The Oregon State University Extension Service otters educational programs, activities and materials without regard to race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin or disability. Clay Penhollow Mollie Driscoll Joan David Gardening classes available at mini-college Teens face nutrition challenge Potatoes provide fitness fuel Teenagers holding part-time jobs face formidable challenges in getting adequate nutrition. You, the parent, can help your teen meet that challenge. According to a recent study, teens with part-time jobs are less likely to eat their evening meals at home. These young adults usually have a sandwich type meal, which does not include a vegetable other than potatoes. And, teens working part-time are more likely to skip the evening meals than non-employed teens. As a result, the study found, employed teens had lower calcium, riboflavin, vitamin A, and vitamin C intakes than non-employed teens. Including extra fruits, vegetables and milk products in morning and noon meals will help provide working teens with these nutrients. But help ing adults select snacks with an eye for high-nutrient foods may have a better and longer-lasting effect. For example, many fast tood restaurants now have orange juice as a beverage selection. It is tasty, thirst quenching, nutritious and socially acceptable if it is poured over ice in a soft drink container and sipped through a straw. Encourage teens to tuck an orange or apple in a pocket or purse so it is handy when hunger strikes. Keep containers of yogurt in the refrigerator with plastic spoons for a quick snack after school or work, on the run, or before bedtime. Yogurt is also a great breakfast item. Ready-to-eat snack vegetables such as carrot sticks, broccoli flower ettes, and green pepper slices will provide vitamin A, vitamin C. These vegetables are especially useful for calorie counting teens. By providing teens with nutritious foods at "access points"and helping them be aware of nutritious alterna tives, you can assist your young adults toward life-long good health. Across the nation, people of all To keep fit and trim exercise and ages and athletic ability are jumping eat healthy, nutritious meals contain on the fitness bandwagon. During ing plenty of fiber-rich complex the summer, celebrate the nation's carbohydrates like potaotes the commitment to better health. Pota- body's best form of fitness fuel, toes are a nutritious addition to a After a good work-out. try a light, fit, active life-style. A medium potato savory salad of cooked potato (about 13 pound) contributes half chunks, cherry tomatoes and sliced of our daily need for vitamin C, 15 zucchini drizzled with a spicy, low percent for B6 and iodine, and cal dressing, eight percent for thiamin and iron all for only 1 10 calories. Once again this summer, home gardening enthusiasts will have an opportunity in late August to trade their garden patch for the classroom. The fourth annual Master Garde ner Mini-College will be held at Oregon State University August 17-21. This year's Mini-College is shaping up as the best yet. The Master Gardener Mini-College, sponsored by the OSU Extension Service and the Oregon Master Gardener Association, will be held at the LaSells Steward Center on the OSU campus. Housing and meal service for out-of-town participants will be available at a nearby dormitory. The Mini-College gives both no vice and advanced gardeners an opportunity to receive home horticul ture and landscaping instruction from university faculty and local professionals. Session topics offered include: high desert gardening, growing mush rooms, horticultural photography, weed identification, tree growth and development and more. Class size is limited to 70 persons and enrollment will be done on a 'first come' basis. Pre-registration will help ensure that those signing up get the classes they want. Check-in and registration for the Mini-College is scheduled for Sun day afternoon, August 17 beginning at 1:30 p.m. Classes begin 10:30 a.m., August 18 and end at noon Thursday, August 21. The cost of the five-day event is $150 for Master Gardeners and $165 for other participants. These fees cover registration, meals and a double occupancy dormitory room for four days. For more information, contact local county offices of the OSU Extension Service. Family Fun: A sensitive barometer Psychologists' know that having fun is serious business for children and that play is essential for normal development. And, as Dr. David Palframan, a Canadian psychiatrist, points out in Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, a sense of fun is critical for the parents and the family as a whole. Fun-loving families exhibit these three traits: They enjoy camaraderie in their daily lives at meals, at work, at bedtime. Tired lilacs may need pruning They encourage individual patterns of seeking recreation. Reading may constitute fun for one person, dancing for another, basketball for another, but a family gathering can make room for every body. Tolerance and respect must be the keynote, and differences in age and taste must be accomodated. They believe jn the need to relax together. According to Dr. Palframan, "they have a sense of involvement in the planning (of family recreations), are willing to compromise about tastes, and con stantly set the stage for exchange of affectionate love." Fun, they know, is not something beyond their control but an art to cultivate. Fun-loving families talk together at meals. They celebrate birthdays and special occasions. They take vacations together that serve as intense periods of renewal. They often tease and banter, but in nonhos tile ways. Children especially need to see adults having fun in order to surmount the all-too-common ado lescent notion that being a grown up means only hard work and boredom. Finally, the ability to have fun and to benefit from it is certainly not confined to traditional nuclear family units. Nontraditional fami lies, particularly those fragmented by separation, divorce, or death, urgently need fun, because it demon strates to adults and children alike that they can carry on and gives them a way to overcome their grief and anger. Lilac shrubs in the home landscape that aren't blooming as heavily as they once did may need some pruning to regenerate their vigor. Through the spring or early sum mer when lilacs bloom, they are doing more than just creatine beau tiful flowers. They also are producing their new annual growth and next year's blossom buds. This growth pattern means there is no time of year that a lilac can be pruned without removing some flo wer buds. Toys may be flammable Making stuffed animals is a popu lar home craft these days, and materials for these toys are readily available at many hobby and craft stores. However, finding stuffing material that is certified non-flammable may be a problem. There are no fire safety codes that apply to the flammability or non-flammability of stuffing mate rials used for home-made stuffed animals. Generally, polyester fiberfill will be less flammable than polyurethane form. And coverings of modacrylic fleece generally will be less flammab le than acrylics. To get around this, prune the shrub so that only non-flowering 1 wood is removed. Flower blooms are produced from large buds on the ends of vigorous new growth, i Prune out the lateral and spindly growth that rarely produce blooms. Both types of growth are usually! best removed in the winter, but can ; be cut out any time of year. Annual pruning, though not essen-. ' tial, will keep the lilac bush in good health. Renovation of old bushes is usual-' Appliance questions answered Q: How does the humidity sensor work in my microwave oven? A: Humidity sensors play an important part in the microwave oven cooking controls called "auto" or"instant"cook. To work properly, food must be covered during cooking. As the food cooks, moisture builds and when it is released as a burst of steam, the sensor is activated. If food is not covered properly, the humidity sensor is activated prema turely before the food is cooked Non-smokers get discounts Earn a healthy discount on insu ranceHave you quit smoking? Make sure you tell all your insurance carriers life, health, even your auto insurer. Many companies offer hefty discounts on policy premiums if you change your lifestyle to include regular exercise and proper diet and eliminate unhealthy habits. Life insurance carriers have been offering the incentive to stop smoking for quite a few years. But the discounts have grown to as much as 50 percent with some companies if you can also prove you exercise regularly. (Health clubs membership is one way). And some auto insurers now offer up to 25 percent off if you're in good shape. Check your health coverage too. Premiums could be reduced as much as 22 percent. ly also best done in the winter, but I can be safely done in the late spring ; completely. UllCI U1UU111. 1 UICIIUVUICIIIULSHIUU!!, remove some of the old wood in the shrub near ground level. Be careful ; to prune no more than a fifth of the Do not cut the foliage of spring shoots that have already bloomed. ' flowering bulbs for bouquets. The This severe pruning of some foliage manufactures food for the branches while leaving most intact bulb so that you can have blooms gives the shrub a solid framework next year, on which new growth can quickly The best time to clean your self become established keeping the shrub , leaning oven is while it is still hot young. Renovation pruning is needed fr0m baking. It will need less heat only every few years. to reach the required cleaning tempe- To promote a . healthy crop of rature. lilac blooms next year, clip the Fireplace bricks can be cleaned blossom heads off the plant after wjth a solution of 1 gallon warm The foods best cooked by this method such as most vegetables, casseroles, seafood and one-dish meals, have adequate liquid and microwave well when covered. An activated sensor causes the oven to select one of several cooking patterns. On a typical setting, for example, the sensor measures the time it took to sense steam, then programs the oven to cook for twice as long as it took to sense the burst of steam. This feature is not intended to replace the cook, but to give extra reassurance to the doubtful and eliminate the need for stirring and turning the food through the use of covered containers. Q: Can I crush ice and grind coffee in my food processor? A: Some brands caution against these tasks because the blades become dull, while others have special acces sory blades ideal for this type of grinding. Consult the use and care manual for individuals brand recom-medations. Helpful household hints bloom this year. Changes necessary at middle age water and V cup tn-sodium phospate. If a stronger treatment is needed, a dilute solution (1 part acid-8 parts water) of muriatic acid can he used. Follow immediately For many people, middle age means slowing down on everything except eating! About 40, the basal metabalic rate begins to decline. To avoid "middle age spread" or active obesity, food intake must be decreased and or physical activity must be increased. Obesity is a concern because it aggravates heart and artery disease and osteoarthritis. It may also be a risk factor in the development of hypertension, artherosclerosis, hernias, gall blad der disease, and Type II (maturity onset) diabetes especially if these health problems run in the family. Middle age can be an emotionally stressful time when many changes occur. Good health can't eliminate stress, but does help up cope with new challenges. Exercise is especially important at this time for improved blood circulation, muscle tone, and joint flexibility. Inactive people should begin exercising gradual lywith long brisk walks or gar dening! Once the muscles are in shape, more strenous activities like cycling, hiking, jogging, tennis, and swimming may be added to a fitness program. At this age, complete annual physical examinations are a good idea. The doctor may detect a minor health problem early when it can easily be treated. Grow squash in a tub with a thorough water rinse. Handle the solution carefully. Wear rubber gloves. The acid can damage fabric and wood surfaces. Tri-sodium phosphate and muriatic acid are available in hardware stores. Pink the bottom of a shower curtain instead of leaving it hemmed. Water seeps into a hem and forms mildew and mold which causes the curtain to deteriorate quickly. Lime scale forms in tea-kettles or sterilizers can be loosened with boiling water and vinegar (half and half)- Let it stand overnight, then scrape out the deposit with steel wool. Odor zapper: If active wear and other garments smell of perspiration, give them a soak in four tablespoons to one quart of water. Rinse and wash as usual. Black heel marks should be re moved from a linoleum floor by using floor wax on a pad of 000 steel wool. A bowl of fruit next to a bouquet of flowers sounds attractive, but not for long if they are too close. Most non-citrus fruits like apples, peaches, pears give off ethylene gas, a ripening hormone. The gas makes flowers age quickly; after one day the petals may completely fall off. If your gardening spot is too small to accomodate some of the fast and large growing vegetable plants, why not put them in a tub? One gardener's plot was too small to handle the spreading vines of a winter squash. His solution was to plant three seeds of a Butternut squash in a 10-gallon tub and set it in an unused corner of the patio. The squash plant in its tub made a good family project, everyone got involved in watering and caring for it, and it was a good conversation piece. This particular tub is a rigid, wood fiber pulp container that can be found at most local retail nursery stores. Fill it up with homemade compost or a good potting soil. The tub can be reused if you dump it out in the fall and clean it before spring. Tubs like this are good for the larger growing vegetables. Cucum bers and melons, egg plants and large vining tomatoes, all of the squashes and plants like the artichoke will do fine in a large tub. Just make sure the tub will hold seven or more gallons of soil. Investors ask these questions Before investing, it's important to seek and evaluate answers to various questions. Here are six that that may provide useful: 1. How much, if any, of the principal and or interest is guaran teed, and how good is the guarantee? 2. How soon, and at what cost, would I exchange this investment for cash? 3. How much cash, when, and under what circumstances must I (or rrjight I) pay out or receive? 4. How much growthappreciation might I reasonably expect, over what period of time, and what is the basis for such an estimate? 5. What are the most important tax implications for the cash flows to and from this investment, and how probable are they? 6. When, if ever, can I expect to get my principal back? Low-cholesterol menu guide strawberry glaze pie Lawns need boost 1 o make all these principles easier to follow, here are some tips on reading menus. 1 . Learn which terms and phrases telegraph low-fat preparation. Look for steamed, in its own juice, garden fresh, broiled, roasted, poached, tomato juice, dry broiled (in lemon juice or wine.) 2. Be aware that some low-iai, low-cholesterol preparations are high sodium. Watch out for foods that are: pickled, in cocktail sauce. smoked, in broth, in a tomato sauce. 3. Menu descriptions that warn of saturated fat and cholesterol preparation may also indicate high sodium. Avoid foods that are: butte ry, buttered, in butter sauce, sauteed, fried, panfried, crispy, braised, creamed, in cream sauce, in its own gravy, hollandaise, au gratm. par mesa n, in cheese sauce, escallopea, marinated (in oil), stewed, basted, casserole, prime, hash, pot pie. I '$ quarts strawberries 3 tablespoons cornstarch I tablespoons butter whipped topping I cup sugar xh cup water I baked 9 pie shell Hull and wash strawberries: drain well. Crush enough to make I cup. Combine sugar and cornstarch in saucepan. Add crushed berries and water. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture boils. Cook and stir two minutes. Will be thick and clear. Remove from heat and stir in butter. Cool. Place w hole berries in shell, reserve a few for garnish. Pour cooked mixture over berries. Cover and chill at least two hours. Garnish pie with whipped cream and reserved berries. It's early summer lawn feeding time. An application of nitrogen fertilizer in June will keep home lawns growing vigorously through out the summer. Many fertilizer formulations ma nufactured specifically for grasses are available for lawns. Weed and feed combinations w ill do extra duty by killing early sum mer weeds. Follow all directions for using these fertilizers printed on the package. Ammonium sulfate nitrate are alternatives to special lawn fertili zers. When using these nitrogen sources, apply one pound of actual nitrogen per 1. 000 square feet. Ammonium nitrate contains 33 percent nitrogen; a five pound box will fertilize 1,500 square feet. Ammonium sulfate contains 21 percent nitrogen; a five pound box will cover 1.000 square feet of lawn.