Comments on: Teach children at home

By: jan

jan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:37:14 +0000

I took my first child to the store to explore. We found vegetables there that we had not tasted. (We didn’t even know how to cook them.) I let him pick out a vegetable that he wanted to try. He chose artichokes. We then talked to the store’s home economist and looked at cookbooks to decide how to prepare them. It was all very fun. To this day my little explorer loves artichokes – and he is 30 with six children of his own!

I love broccoli, and wanted my children to like it too. After we watched the movie “The Land Before Time” in which a dinosaur calls a leaf a “tree star”, I told my children that broccoli was “tree stars” and we have called it that ever since. My six children and ten grandchildren love “tree stars” best of all the vegetables!

By: jeanette

jeanette — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:47:58 +0000

Hi Green Smoothie Girl,

You are very refreshing and bring everything down to a simple level; thank you. I am encouraged by you. Are you an advocate of raw cacao; raw gogi berries; are do you think they are overrated? I am moving toward raw and probably am around 55% at present.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:40:21 +0000

You need to publish books asap!!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:24:36 +0000

Thanks for this great article! My children love helping me make salads, from picking out the produce at the store to making the salads themselves. Same thing with the Green Smoothies — they love seeing what goes in and enjoying their individual creations.

By: Carissa White

Carissa White — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:23:28 +0000

My son who is 4 does help with a knife. We purchased a salad knife from Bed Bath and Beyond and it is plastic so much more safe than a regular knife. He loves this part and will happily eat whatever we are chopping at the time…more so than at dinner with a fork. He loves chopping things and you see him sneaking bites all the time – which I encourage. I mean what kid wouldn’t love to hold something that they are always preached at isn’t safe to touch like a knife…just get a safe one that they can’t cut themselves on.