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Warm Springs, Oregon Msrchl 1,1988 PAGE 5 Getting through teens' troubled times difficult Spilyay Tymoo Healthy teenagers rebel against parents. Arguments and quarrels with adolescents are not symptoms of an unhappy home or an indication that something went wrong with earlier discipline. What appears to be rebellion in teenage children is a healthy strug gle for independence. Parents expect their children to develop critical judgement, for opinions and change things, but, oh, the parental dis comfort when teens start to take new ideas seriously. Worried parents, who thought everything was going well, now face griping, arguing, defiance, com plaining, alternating high and low moods, and negative reactions to family plans. Going through this stage is neces sary if the adolescent is to become an independent person. It's the way teens explore the variations in family standards of living they see around them and the differences in their acquaintances. Most teenagers have teen friends who are intellectually curious, drop outs, socialites, or athletes. The once untroubled thoughts of a grade school child now ques tion religious, political, and ethnic differences, while switching opin ions almost daily. Teenagers who never have any desire to rebel or try out new ideas are not typical adolescent. For some the struggles are intense but for others, less so. The intensity of rebellion is not a reflection of parental incompetence. Emerging adults need to learn to disagree, and be allowed to express Kids get jealous, too Adults aren't the only ones to suffer from bouts with that green eyed monster, jealousy. Young chil dren have to deal with jealousy, too. Sometimes your happy home may be torn by spats of jealousy which afflict children for a variety of reasons. A frequent cause of jealousy in children is the child's strong com petitive desire for the undivided and unshared attention of the par ent. They seem to literally crave the "whole" parent, body and soul! This demanding attitude shown by two or more children at the same time can be ' exasperating. There are parenting techniques that counteract the jealous characteris tics natural to all children. Listen, speak carefully Parents who stop to listen to themselves can get ideas about their methods of child guidance. It you hear yourself say "If I've told you once, IVe told you a dozen times...," stop and think how this makes a child feel. It took you a long time to learn all of the things you know. Be patient with children as they learn. They have a short memory and cannot remember rules very long. Also, they don't always understand what you are saying. Young children are unable to follow many instructions given at the same time. Father should not be surprised if Judy does not fol low all of his instructions when he How to save bread Bread is an important part of most family meals, whether for morning toast, noontime sandwiches or with dinners at night. Unfortu nately, the cost of a loaf of bread is rising right along with most other prices. Making bread at home may be one answer to rising bread costs. Of all the baked foods you can make at home, probably home baked yeast breads bring the most comments, as few people can over look that tantalizing aroma. As you look at the cost of bread products, you can even single out special items that can really save a lot of money. You can save about half the cost of a loaf of bread, 30 to 40 cents, and can save three fourths of the cost of sweet rolls or specialty breads. For example, pita bread, sometimes called pocket bread, costs about $.04 a roll to make and about S.25 to buy. Rai sin bread costs about $.60 to make and $1.90 to buy. You will need to consider that your time in bread making is worth money. If you have the time, you may yant to bake bread in some quan tity. Since homemade bread has none of the preservatives found in many commercial loaves, freezer space will be needed to store the extra loaves of bread. Also required is skill in kneading bread dough and a suitable, draft free place for the bread to rise. For the most economical practi ces, try to purchase your flour, yeast and sugar in quantity to take advantage of lower unit costs. The recipe you choose can also affect their typical exuberance and despair. A mother of two teens stated she felt like a yo-yo for about eight years. "Around the age of twenty, the string broke and we settled down to a pretty reasonable life again." Parental confrontation with teens is essential. When a disagreement exists, get it out into the open but be sure to stick with the issues. There's nothing teens rebel against more than parents who dredge up all past errors to add to every disagreement. Lice may Lice cause losses in all types of beef cattle operations. Some anim als that develop extremely large lice populations may abort their calf or die from anemia caused by blood loss. But, the major loss results from poor feed conversion. In cow-call operations, lousy cat tle will produce less milk and will wean lighter calves. Cattle feeders will find lousy cattle require more feed for each pound gained. Louse infested cattle appear unthrifty and have dry looking skin. They also damage fences, corrals and feeder bunks by rubbing on them to relieve the irritation caused by lice feed ing. Lice are primarily a wintertime problem because sunshine, rain, self-grooming and short summer hair coat make poor conditions for their development. Cattle are the only host of cattle lice. Usually one or two percent of the cattle in a herd are carriers that Devoting a designated time period each day to each child individually is a good way to start. During that time, take care to do something the child really enjoys doing with you alone. This "one-on-one" relationship satisfies the child's intense need of you, the parent, and at the same time gives you the opportunity to really know and understand your child. What about the other child? Children are wonderful. Once you set up a pattern of "Jimmy's time" and "Dory's time" they will usually accept the time-share sys tem and rigidly guard their private ten of fifteen minutes. Set the timer so the unoccupied child knows when his or her turn is due. tells her: "Take these toys to your room. Put your pajamas away and get your shoes and socks on. Then wash you face and brush your teeth and hurry up!" Judy will probably wash her face and brush her teeth, thinking she has done what she was told to do. Being told too much, too fast is upsetting to young children. They remember fewer things for a shorter time than adults. They are more likely to fol low your instructions if they are short, simple, and given one step at a time. When these guides are followed, children can succeed at many tasks. When they succeed and gain par- the cost of homemade bread. Some recipes, such as those for quick rising breads, adds to costs by cal ling for twice as much yeast as would normally be needed. Whole milk can be replaced by nonfat dry milk mixed with water in many bread recipes. Another way to bake your own bread, but save time, is to buy fro- Proper nutrition important to health The importance of good nutri- enronic conditions such as heart tion will again be highlighted by the American Dietetic Association during March. This year's National Nutrition Month theme "Good Nu tritionFeel the Difference" calls attention to the link between what you eat and how you feel. Desires for conveniences and qua lity dictate many food choices among time-conscious men and women working outside the home. Even when preparation time is limited, nutrient needs should not be forgotten. Moderation and var iety continue to be the cornerstone of healthy diet. Moderation in the consumption of fat, sugar, cholesterol, sodium and calories may help us avoid 4-H photo weekend set All Oregon 4-H members, lead ers and parents are invited to: Learn to take better photographs. Get interested in areas of photo graphy that are new to you. Become acquainted with the joy of making prints in a darkroom. Develop skill with your camera controls, what they are and how to use them. Find new friends from other A show-down talk, an outburst of honest opinions, yelling, or even quarreling helps clear the air and releases tension. While they dis agree with parents, teenagers depend on family for security and steadfast love. This includes a place to safely discharge agression and frustration. Only within families can teens have a good fight and a good cry without risking relationships. While a family with rebellious teenagers is normal, parents who get fed up with the situation are normal too. It's a stage of parenting most of threaten catties' lives will harbor high numbers of lice year around. Bulls are often carri ers since they have a denser coat and cannot self-groom as easily as the other cattle. Lice spread by contact from carriers to other ani mals in the herd. Cattle lice spend their entire life on the animal and will live only a few days off the host if removed. Lice can pass from egg to adult in 3-4 weeks. Eggs that fall off the host will not hatch unless the weather is hot and then the young must find a host within 2-3 days or they will die. Each time cattle are handled they can be examined for lice in a few seconds. Part the hair with your fingertips and examine the animal in several places including the neck, withers, brisket, shoulders, midback, tailhead and behind the rounds. Four species of lice infest cattle. Three of these species feed by pierc ing the skin and sucking blood. The fourth species feeds on the scales of the skin and causes irrita tion. Chemical control. The best con trol in late winter and early spring is the use of pour-ons. Remember to purchase only ones that treat lice as the grub control season is past. Check the local supply stores, or contact your veterinarian. For further information contact the Extension Laundry Youngsters and dirty clothes go together like peanut butter and jelly. In recent times, however, more children are associating with laundry, from the opposite angle by helping to keep their families'clothes clean. Easy-to-use equipment and parents working makes laundry a task kids can do. to kids ents'approval, they feel good about themselves. Their pride in them selves helps them learn to do more things better. Sometimes parents are surprised to discover what children are learn ing. Listen to your children with patience, interest, and understand ing. Talking with your children about what they are doing and making plans with them adds to their use of words. Questions like "What happened then?""What did you think about that?""What should we do next?" develop ideas and communication. on bread zen dough. Frozen dough is slightly lower in cost (about $.50 per pound, rather than $.60 to $.80 per pound) when you bake it as loaf bread. It really becomes economical when you use this dough for cinnamon rolls or sticky buns, a much more expensive item to purchase in the stores. disease, diabetes, and tooth decay, All nutrients needed for good heatlh will be provided in a diet that includes a variety of fruits and vegetables, breads and cereals, milk products, and meats or legumes in adequate amounts. Food alone cannot make you healthy. But good eating habits are an important part of a health promoting lifestyle. Rockin'4-H: Workday: Saturday, March 12, 9 a.m., Tenino Feedlot, work cat tle, I.D., brand, castrate. Next meeting: Monday. March 28. 7 p.m., 4-H Center (Old Boys Dorm basement). parts of the state. Have fun! When: April 22 and 23, 1988. Where: Oregon 4-H Center west of Salem. Cost: $40 for Friday and Satur day. $25 for Saturday only. You do not have to be in photo graphy projects to attend! For more information contact the Extension office at 553-1161. ext. 238. us could do without. Once a degree of independence has been achieved, warfare tends to vanish even though differences still exist. Adolescent revolt has not always existed. Adolescents for thousands of years followed easily in their parents' alternatives. However, it's safe to speculate that the personalities who achieved greatness in the past likely had hard lime convincing their parents and other authorities that there may be other ways to thinking and doing. That's progress! office at 553-1 161. ext. 238. Sanitation. Following simple sani tation practices will help you limit the spread of lice in your cattle. Isolate newly purchased animals and examine them. If they have lice, treat them before you move them into the herd. If bedding, feeder bunks, sheds or trucks have been contacted by lousy cattle, keep other cattle away from them for two days in winter or ten in summer, or sanitize them before reuse. All insecticides are poisons. Read the label on the package and follow precautions carefully. Avoid con taminating the skin, eyes on clo thing with any pesticide. To pro tect fish and wildlife, keep pesticides out of ponds and streams. Keep pesticides away from children and domestic animals and safety dis pose of used containers. Warning. These recommendations are based on the best information currently available. If recommen dations are followed carefully, resi dues should not exceed the toler ance established for any particular chemical. To avoid excessive resi dues, follow recommendations care fully with respect to dosage levels, number of applications and min imum interval between applications. The cattlemen is responsible for residue. A good job for kids Initial time spent in introducing a youngster to correct, safe and energy-efficient procedures will save time in the future and help to avoid possible damage to clothes and to appliances. Start by acquainting the child with the use and care guides for the washer and dryer. Have children work with you and set standards for doing the job. Show them proper techniques for sorting clothes into loads, setting controls, and using soaps, deter gents and additives. Supervise chil dren until they can assume the responsibilities. Specific guidelines will help your child change hampers of dirty laun dry into neat stacks of clean ones. They include the following: Prepare the clothes for washing by shaking out loose dirt, emptying pockets, closing fasteners, remov ing unwashable belts and any other such decorations and tying sashes and strings. Check items for heavy soil as well as spots and stains. Collars and cuffs, bottoms of socks may need some pretreatment to help remove heavy or ground-in-dirt. Apply and rub in a liquid detergent or a paste of water and granular detergent. Or use a prewash soil and stain remover. Keep a spot and stain removal chart handy to serve as a reference in treating stains. Following recom mended procedures, remove sev eral types of stains to show the child how it is done. Sort washloads. Blue jeans, red fuzzy sweatsuits, white shirts and white lacy bikinis cannot be washed together. By color whites or white background prints colors in solids and prints from bright to dark colors that may run. By fabric and construction sepa rate loosely knit garments or lacey items from heavy duty blue jeans. Delicate garments require a shor ter wash time with a slower wash ing action. Separate the lint givers from the lint takers items such as bath towels, fuzzy sweatsuits and flannel pajamas give off lint while others such as permanent press shirts and nylon underwear attract lint. By degree of soil wash very dirty clothes separate from those that are less dirty. Load the washer by dropping the items into the machine loosely. Don't pack the clothes since they need to move freely through the water. Permanent press clothes and knits need more room to circulate than do towels and other sturdy clothes. The extra room helps pre vent wrinkles. Mixing items of dif ferent size in a wash load results in better cleaning. Set washer controls. A water level control on the washer can be set to match the size of the wash load. For smaller loads, check dur ing washing to be sure there's enough water for good washing action. If not. stop the washer an set the The (EXTEWSIOW) AGRICULTURE4-H Clay Penhollow HOME EC4-H Molhe Marsh FAMILY LIFE4-H Arlene Boileau 4-HYOUTH AIDE Joni David 2126 Warm Springs Street Lunchtime consumer series March 1! Buying Furniture March 18 Ad Language Traps March 25 Stopping Home Leaks April 1 Saving Energy April 8 Art of Skillful Buying April 15 Sewing for Profit April 22 Landscape Management April 29 Backyard Greenhouse Raised Bed Gardening Each session will be held from noon to I p.m. at the Admin istration Building in Conference Room 3. Bring a sack lunch and learn valuable information. Sponsored by the Warm Springs OSU Extension Office. The effects of aspertame Does diet pop help you keep your weight under control? Maybe not. A recent study revealed that aspartame, the sugar substitute used by the soft drink industry, may stimulate appetite. The study raises questions about the affect aspartame has on "moti vation to eat." This is defined by hunger, desire to eat, fullness, and estimated consumption. In tests conducted by researchers, 95 young men and women were water level control to a higher set ting, then resume washing. Other washer controls that need to be selected include the cycle and water temperatures settings. Although washers vary in appear ance and design, most have at least two cycles, generally three. The cycle determines the agitation and spin speeds as well as the time for washing clothes of different fabrics and weights. Regular and sturdy fabrics require the "normal regu lar" of "heavy" setting. Permanent press items use the "permanent press" cycle. Delicates and knits need the"gentIe"or"deIicate"cycle. Choose a wash water tempera ture to match the fabrics, colors and degree of soil of each load. A "warm" setting can be used for most loads. Use the "hot" setting for whites and dirty or greasy clothes. Use the "cold" setting for bright or dark colors that may run. For the rinse cycle and also a means of con serving energy, use the "cold" set ting for all loads. Choose laundry aids. Soap works best in soft water while detergents may be used in either hard of soft water. Whatever the type or brand selected, it is important to read and follow the label directions for the amount of product to use. The amount needed varies with the load size, soil conditions, hardness of water and the water volume of the washer used. More than the recommended amount may be needed for larger loads, heavy soils, harder water, cooler water temperatures or larger capacity washers. Slightly less can be used in soft water, small loads, lower water level or lightly soiled clothes. When using any laundry aid such as a bleach, detergent booster or fabric softener, read and follow the label instructions carefully. Specific information is given on how to use the product effectively. When drying clothes in the dryer. Load the appliance with the same loads of clothes washed together. Check the dryer instruction book let for correct temperature and time settings. Overdrying clothes can cause them to shrink, wrinkle or cling to each other from build up of static electricity. Articles ot plastic, vinyl or rubber should De line-dried or aryer-anea on inc "fluff or air" setting that provides no heat. When the dryer cycle ends, immediately remove clothes to eliminate wrinkling; hang them up or fold.them. Keep the appliances in good con dition by cleaning lint filters after each use. Clean up any spills from detergents and laundry aids to pro tect appliance surfaces. Children who learn to do the family's laundry not only help in their busy households, but also learn a skill that they need in their on busy schedules as they become older. People ZUUIML OFFICE MANAGEMENT Eraina Palmer TRAINEE Deanna Lamebear 553-1161, extension 238 given water, a sugar solution (glu cose) and an equally sweet aspar tame solution. The glucose solution caused a decline in the motivation to eat and an increase in feeling of fullness. Aspartame increased the motiva tion to eat and decreased the feel ings of fullness. Researchers reported that after ingestion of aspartame, the volun teers were left with a "residual hunger" that resulted in increased food consumption. So the easy way of cutting down on calories may not be a simple solution to weight control after all. If sugar-sweetened soft drinks have too many calories and diet soft drinks encourages you to eat more calories, how do you keep calories under control? Try ice cold water with a lemon slice or sprig of mint, bottled water such as club soda, or a cup of hot water. Most people drink pop out of habit. You can continue the habit while switching to another bever age by selecting a non-calorie, non caffeine drink that doesn't have a sweet taste. Learn embroidery! Learn the art of embroidery each Tuesday beginning March 1 and continuing through March 29. The session will be taught by Mollie Marsh from noon to 1 p.m. in Con ference room 2 at the Administra tion Building. Learning supplies will be fur nished during class time so that participants can learn basic stitches. Participants will need to purchase their own project needles and hoop to be able to complete a project. Bring a sack lunch and plan to join any or all of the session. Learn how easy embroidery can be and start now for those gifts you'll be needing this year. Walnut cheesecake brownies I package (2 1 .5 ounces) fudge brow nie mix 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened 2 eggs 1 tablespoon sugar 1-2 teaspoons grated orange peel (optional) I V cups chopped walnuts. Prepare brownie mix as package directs. Spread half of batter evenly in greased 9-inch layer cake pan; reserve remaining batter. In 1-quart bowl beat cheese with eggs, sugar and orange peel until smooth. Mix in 1 cup of the walnuts; pour over brownie batter in pan. Gently dol lop with remaining walnuts. Bake in center of 350 degrees oven 55 minutes to 1 hour until top is puffed and edges are lightly browned. Cool on rack. Serve warm or at room temperature, cut into wedges. Makes 8-10 servings. Trade skills for services You may have skills or items you can swap for things you need. The clothes you no longer wear, furni ture you no longer need, or toys the children have outgrown may have value to others. Perhaps you can trade these unneeded items for the things you do need. What skills do you have that you could trade? For example, sew ing or babysitting could be traded for transportation or repairs.