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Warm Springs, Oregon September 9, 1988 PAGE 5 Every child needs someone to believe they are special Pamilv nutinns am for comoanionshin Y ways to hug your kid 1 a i i- Spilyay Tymoo Catch your child being good. Praise Rood behavior youll start seeing more of it. Make being good easy. Putting your favorite vase out of site for a few years isn't giving in. It's sav ing your sanity. And the vase! Help your child let off steam. Your kid doesn't have an energy crisis. Running, yelling, acting silly outdoors and in the daytime will prevent frayed nerves at night. Don't keep your child guessing about rules. Be clear. Be firm. Be reasonable. Set a good example. Anger is for words, not fists. Give yourself a break. That's why God made babysitters. A happy parent is a good one. Hug. Who doesnt improve with hearing a genuine "I love you"? Children must An important part of growing up is learning to make choices. Sometimes parents create problems by giving a choice but are not wil ling to accept a chiild's answer. If you are not going to let John out side without a coat, you are in trouble if you say: "Do you want to wear your coat?" Chances are that John will say "no." Then, you will demand that he wear his coat and an argument is likely to follow. Make food appealing, offer variety, too Keep your meals "eye-appealing" and "feel-appealing" with a rain bow of colors and a variety of food textures and shapes. Raw carrots and celery sticks, green pepper and red pepper strips, raw broccoli and cauliflower flowerettes are all "kid pleasers." Make them even more interesting with a cheese, yogurt, or peanut butter dip. Give your children a good var iety of foods, selecting one item from each food group. Include such high protein foods as eggs, peanut butter, meat, poultry, fish and cheese; a whole grain bread or bomplex carbohydrate such as pasta rice; milk or other dairy products for calcium; a raw or cooked vege tale and a raw fruit for dessert. High calcium recipes for children Nutted Cheese Sandwich Mix a three-ounce package of cream cheese with V cup chopped walnuts and one tablespoon rai sins. Spread on two slices of whole wheat bread. Cover each with a second slice of bread. Yield: two sandwiches. Per portion: 97 mg calcium; 371 calories With one cup milk: 388 mg cal cium, 521 calories Tuna Pillows Spread one cup of your favorite tuna salad on four slices whole wheat toast. Top each with one slice (one ounce) cheddar cheese. Arrange on a baking pan. Place under a preheated hot broiler until cheese melts, two to three minutes. Yield: four portions Per portion: 237 mg calcium; 256 calories With one cup milk: 528 mg cal cium, 406 calories Rise and Shine Breakfast Cookies Easily prepared for baking in less than 20 minutes, these cookies feature bran cereal and chopped walnuts for a healthy helping of fiber. Serve them with milk for a nutritious breakfast on the run. XA cup marmalade junior preserve 14 cup butter or margarine, softened V V ) r Parents and children often have a favorite use for a hoped-for sunny weekend day. It's called the family outing. Two-worker families, in particu lar, may yearn to share and enjoy new and different activities with their children on those precious and seemingly rare, sunny week ends. But after a week of work, many parents may find it too strenuous to think about venturing forth for a day at play with small children or preschoolers. The problem is how to achieve that refreshing change of pace, essential for both parents and children, without making the family outing a major undertaking. Think in terms of mini-vacations that are close to home lasting only an hour or two. Children have nat urally short attention spans. Use this clue for planning memorable make choices If you want to give a choice that you can accept, say: "Do you want to wear your red coat or your ski jacket?" Either answer is accepta ble and you will both be satisfied. If there is no choice, you can simply say: "You need to wear your coat before you go outside." "It's time for dinner" works better than "Do you want to come in for dinner?" "Mary, you need to go to the bathroom" gets better results than "Do you have to go to the bathroom?" Children need to learn to make decisions. lit is important to give desirable choices whenever possi ble and to accept their choices. Infants' needs the greatest during first Babies grow most quickly dur ing their first year and need high levels of nutrients in relation to their body weight. Most experts agree that breast feeding provides the best food for infants. Human milk contians all of the necessry nutrients and its the right tempera ture, easy to digest and economi cal. Formula recommended by a physician or dietician is another choice. It is usually made of modi fied cow's milk with added carbo hydrates, vitamins and minerals. Solid foods may be introduced 1 egg 1 4 cups buttermilk baking mix 1 A cups fortified whole bran cereal 34 cup chopped walnuts '4 cup raisins In large bowl, beat marmalade, butter and egg to blend thoroughly. Mix in baking mix, then bran, walnuts and raisins. Drop heaping tablespoons onto greased baking sheets. Bake in 350 degree oven 15 to 20 minutes just until lightly browned. Remove to racks. Serve warm or at room temperature. Makes 18, 2!4-inch cookies. Buckwheat Huckleberry Muffins 2 cups wholewheat flour 3 cups buckwheat flour 3 tablespoons baking powder I cup date sugar 3 eggs 2V2 cups milk '4 cup peanut oil 1 XA teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon all spice 1 teaspoon cinnamon 2 cups huckleberries Mix all dry ingredients in a mix ing bowl. Combine all liquid in gredients in a bowl. Stir liquids into dry ingredients and stir well. Gently stir in huckleberries. Pour into greased or lined muffin pans and put into oven and bake at 400 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes. " 'f J 1 o CV J I JJ'. m . r - .: Mn mm unit outings right in your own town, Beautiful scenery, nature trails, parks, playgrounds or a sandwich . i. i. i ' l J - L. ' L . .4 in the park duiio cnerisnca memories. Many newspapers list local events of special interest to children. Local sites of interest are suggested by county or city tourist information services if you're out of ideas. Become active in preventing child abuse, neglect The incidence and prevalence of child abuse and neglect have reached alarming proportions in the state of Oregon. The state faces a continuing need to support inno vative programs to prevent child abuse and assist parents and family members in which child abuse occurs. The following guidelines will assure the success of the child abuse prevention program. Educate all children in the pre cepts of personal safety and indi vidual rights, including saying no, resisting unwanted touching and telling adults what happens. Prepare children for their future roles as possible parents. Report child abuse problems Youth obesity attributed Roughly speaking, one child in four is overweight. For teens, the incidence of obesity is up some 39 percent. Why? Could television be the culprit? The amount of time children spend plugged into their favorite show, at the doctor's recommendation during the fourth to sixth month and should be spoon fed. The first solid foods are usually baby cereals enriched with iron and B-vitamins. Next, the doctor may suggest strained fruit, vegetables, egg yolks Some important notes "TIf a child pa'rticipatesln physical activities daily, he or she will be a better student. Many educators feel there is a direct correlation between physical fitness and academic per formance. Whether a child is running, throwing a ball, skipping, or any other age-appropriate physical activity, he or she is learning coor dination, agility, flexibility, speed, balance, endurance, body aware ness, control and teamwork. Children, who are physically fit, learn faster, are more stable emo tionally and are more willing to try new areas of learning. It is important that the child develop large and small muscle control early in his or her life. Activities, such as drawing, paint ing, and coloring with large crayons, are necessary for developing hand eye coordination. Movement is an important skill. Lifting the head, crawling, creep ing, standing and walking are nor mal steps in motion motor devel opment. Being mobile changes the child's way of looking at things. Now the child experiences space and depth as he or she is able to see under, over and behind objects that were once seen as llat. As a child moves, he or she becomes aware of body parts and how they function. Body move ment and learning are interrelated. Language is another skill used for learning. It is primarily used as a mean of communication. Lan guage provides a way to express thoughts and feelings. It begins at infancy and locks a world of ideas for the rest of the child's life. It allows a child to express intellec tual discoveries, wants and feelings. Crying is the first communica tion and is a way to express a need for food and comfort. Cooing and babbling follow and are the begin ning of speech development. As the child hears adults putting words to objects and talking, he or she begins to imitate and copy the pitch. Infants begin speech with an assortment of sounds. Sounds are the basic component of the spoken word. When adults talk to infants, they stimulate the need to respond with sounds. Parents are a child's first teachers. They are very important models because the child is copying them. Learning takes place as parents talk, play, work and do everyday tasks. Parents, who listen to their child and allow him or her to ask questions, to be curious and to explore are providing intellectual stimulation needed for growth. Mini-vacationsarean opportun ity to do things you never have time to do ordinarily. Relax and share new ideas with family members. It's very easy for busy families to overlook the most important com ponent of their life together com pansionship. In active families, companion ship must be planned or it will not happen. -nd help stop the hurting. Practice latchkey safety for children at home alone. Recognize a parent under stress; reach out and help. When the frustrations of being a parent become too great, remem ber to take time out and not take it out on the children. If a child you know is endan gered or mistreated, call the au thorities. Support efforts in your com munity that promote and provide prevention programs. Support the Children's Trust Fund, a special prevention fund helping to prevent chid abuse throughout the state. video, computer program or elec tronic game seems to be directly related to inactivity and weight. A child who watches television five hours a day has twice the risk of being obese as a child who watches less. Most children spend as much time watching T.V. than sitting and meats. At about 12 months, when the baby can chew, chopped foods such as fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, poultry, eggs, chesse and maca roni, may be added to the diet. Between 18 months and two years ""Parents, who provide a stimulating and varied environment, who sur round their child with books, music, crayons, etc., will generally have a child who exhibits an interest in learning. Parents who love learn ing will, generally, produce a child who loves learning. Perhaps the most significant sense is that of touch. It is the earliest f sensory system to oecome iunc tional and maintains its importance throughout life. It has been said that, next to the brain, the skin is the most important of all our organ systems. The child's direct physical interaction with everything safe in his or her environment is critical for intellectual development for the next several years. The surfce area of the skin has an enormous number of sensory recep tors receiving stimuli of heat, cold, touch, pressure and pain. A piece of skin the size of a quarter con tains more than three million cells, 10 sweat glands, 50 nerve endings and three feet of blood vessels. In the first few months of life, good touching experiences are crit ical for continued growth and development of the brain and ner vous system. Baby packs or carriers are excel lent. They allow the parent to han dle, caress, cuddle and talk to the baby with ease. The infant can feel the body warmth and can hear the heartbeat of the caretaker. Touch is the beginning of social develop ment. Hearing is the process of identi fying sounds, the source of sounds, pitch and volume. One of the first steps toward contacting the world is to allow sounds to enter one's awareness. This is the beginning of communication and language skills. It is the beginning of communica tion and language skills. It is the continual auditory, touch and vis ual understanding of what is hap pening in the infant's body, in rela tionship to his or her surroundings, that will make language and talk ing meaningful and necessary. Hearing experiences play a great role in the development of the brain experiences such as sing ing, talking, humming and listen ing to music. Talking to your child, asking questions and even answer ing the questions, contribute to the development of the child's brain. A child's senses are natural teach ing tools. They teach the child everything he or she needs to know about the world that surrounds them. Taste is another way the infant becomes acquainted with his or her 4n.(V ' ' ft. to inactivity, behind a desk at school. There is a whole lot of sitting going on. Watching television re quires little more energy than what is required for sleeping and, it takes time away from higher energy activities. The lifestyle of many year of life of age. babies are usually ready to eat the same balanced diet the fam ily enjoys. Servings should be small since overweight babies tend to become overweight children and adults. on a child's development surroundings. The tongue has taste buds which allow identification and detection to occur when chemicals are disolved. The total flavor of food and objects placed in the infant's mouth comes from the combination of taste, smell, touch, texture and temperature sensation. The human brain develops lar gely through stimulating experien ces form the outside world, usually from the caring adult. As you feed the child, talk! Name the food that is being offered, des cribe the color, form and the tex ture. Get as mamy of the senses involved as you can. Example: "Open your mouth. Here comes a big spoonful of soft, round green peas." Adolescents continue to need the same sort of support they required when they were children. They still consider it support when a parent attends a play, a game or concert in which they are partici pating. And adolescents, despite their size and physical maturity, still need a hug, a pat, a compli ment and words of encouragement. We never grow too old or too big for this kind of support. The development of a child's ability to learn new concepts, solve new problems and master new skills is largely determined by what happens in his or her first five years of life. So, letting your child learn, by interacting with his or her world through observation and play, is a natural, normal process and must be encouraged. Children should be challenged intellectually, but the challenge should be con structive. A child should be allowed to erow at his or her own pace and use Awards night Sept. 13 The annual 4-H Awards Night dinner will be held Tuesday, Sep tember 13 from 6-9 p.m. at the Community Center. 4 h leaders, 4-H members and their families are ask to particiapte in the annual event. Agenda for the evening is 6 p.m. games for 4-Hers; 7 p.m nncnino itith wplrnme. American Be sincere with children Good discipline includes treat- and mental health professionals is ing an atmosphere of quiet firm ness, clarity, and conscientiousness, while using reasoning. Bad disci pline involves punishment hich is unduly harsh and inappropriate, and it is often associated with ver bal ridicule and attacks on the child's integrity. One of the most important goals we strive for as parents, educators food choices young people includes drawbacks: A love affair with the television, an aversion to perspiration and a favorite food list that goes far beyond the four food groups. Is it food? Food choices, for many children, are the crux of the obesity problem. For some, it may be choosing foods high in calories and low in nutrients. Calorie-rich foods are easily over eaten and they are not physically filling. Consider how easy it is to eat a half a bag of chips: four ounces equals 500 calories; as compared to eating 500 calories worth of oranges 10 oranges. his or her own learning style most of the time. Each one of us has a unique rhythm system and learn ing style. It is our internal pace that sets the speed with which we can proceed in comfort. Do you know that a child's self concept is first formed by absorb ing the attitudes and feelings of his or her parents or caretaker? The child's feelings of belonging and security lead to significant learning and growth. The things said to a child and the way they are said determine the child's self image. The child looks at the par ents or caretakers and sees himself or herself in their reflected atti tudes. If a child is repeatedly called negative names, he or she will begin to feel inferior and unworthy. Thus, a negative self-concept is formed. Children need many opportuni ties to be accepted for who and what they are. Good emotional health means a child: Is happy most of the time; Wants to learn most of the time; Wants to make friends most of the time; and Is free from health complaints (aches and pains) most of the time. So, help your child. Give him or her: A warm accepting home; Firm, but fair, consistent disci pline and rules; Independence within safe limits; and Good adult examples. You know, adults need the same opportunities, too, so taking care of yourself is going to help your child! pledge and prayer. 7:15 p.m. pot luck dinner, 7:30 p.m. guest speak ers, 7:45 p.m. awards and 8:30 p.m. closing ceremonies. If you have any questions, sug gestions or ideas contact the Warm Springs Oregon State Extension office at 553-1 161. ext. 238 or stop by the office. to help children develop respect for themselves and others. W hile arriv ing at this goal takes years of patient practice, it is a vital process in w hich parents, teachers and all caring adults can play a crucial and exciting role. In order to accomplish this, we must see child ren as w orthy human beings and be sincere in dealing with them. t