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by Charles Syracuse, Cha

The seven year old has been to Vail colorado snow skiing. Germany on a weeklong siteseeing tour, and of course to the children's mecca Walt-Disney World in Orlando, twice. She is an experienced traveller in every sense of the word. She knows the airport shuffle as well as the in's and out's of custom's and cabs.

Now the three year old is a totally different story. Since her arrival the budget has been more limited. Therefore her experience is listed to the standard beach week, trip to visit relatives in Houston, and of course Disney World. She is less acclimated and has a lesser temperment for spending times in planes, trains, and automobiles. She is a squirmer to say the least.

Now making a roadtrip with both of these diverse individuals takes planning and intent on my wife and I's part. We have to plan our stops and the total travel time that we are going to experience. We must avoid the naptime for changes of venues. No airlines from 1:00 to 3:00 as the three year old is sleeping during this time.

We must plan to have adequate restroom breaks and stop to take them even when all is proclaimed to be well by the vehicles inhabitants. A three year old can turn in a minute from not needing to use to the bathroom to having a full emergency.

Speaking of an emergency, during our trip to Vail, and snowskiing. My daughter came down with an ear ache. So when you are traveling make sure that you always carry adequate medical information with you. We had to call my daughters doctor at home to fax her records to the doctor in Vail. This delayed a full day of skiing for my daughter as well as us while we waited on the documents.

While taking a long car trip to visit relatives in Mississipi my three year old who was at the time two, decided that a crying fit was in order. She screamed all the way to the Mercede's museum. We took about a two hour break and walked around siteseeing, the whole time she was just glad to be out of the car seat. While it is not a problem for adults to sit for hours on end, two and three year olds need adequate playtime to exercise their legs.

So in short when planning to travel with little ones always plan time to take stops. Make sure that you have adequate documentation, and have great humor in the situations that arise.

Charles Cater

Children of all ages can be brought into the kitchen to assist with making a meal. Even when they are barely old enough to talk, allowing them to get close enough to the cooking excitement, they enjoy the hustle and bustle of dinner preparation.

You can impress and delight you little ones by having them assist you prepare the family meals. We sometimes forget how vital time is with our little ones. They love hearing you tell them about the time you stuffed peas in your socks so you would not have to consume them.

Sharing funny stories and explaining nutritional values during dinner time will make an indelible impression on your little ones. While you dazzle them with your wit, give them bits of food to try. Allow them to wash and chop vegetables. The time spent making food at an early age will benefit the entire family.

1) If little ones are of the age to have developed their motor skills, they will be delighted to operate the vegetable chopper or cut the tops off the carrots for you.

2) Allow the kids mix together the dry ingredients for muffins, cupcakes, etc. Let the little ones stir the egg mixture and mix everything together. They can even spoon the batter into the pan.

After the meal is finished, they will eat it and rave to the other members of the family about their accomplishment.

Allowing children to assist in the kitchen, gives them a sense of accomplishment. In some ways they feel more in control over the foods they consume. Feeling more in control, little ones will eat what they help to make.

A favorite family dish is vegetables with pasta. The little ones can chop up the vegetables, cut up the sprigs of dill, and help mix the pot with your supervision.

Vegetables with Pasta

This dish is a favorite little one friendly yummy recipe. This provides some family time in the kitchen and gets kids to consume their vegetables.

Although this pasta recipe started as only pasta and carrots that cook at the same rate, you might want to test the cooking time for the other vegetables that we added. Some alternatives on the recipe may include different rates of cooking for other vegetables like broccoli, snow peas, sugar snaps, etc. separately, and then mix with pasta after both are cooked.

Ingredients:

* 8 ounces of pasta
* One 10- ounce package of pre-peeled baby carrots
* 2- small zucchinis cut up into bite sized pieces
* 1 cup of fresh broccoli tops
* 3 sprigs fresh dill
* 2 tablespoons of unsalted butter
* Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Instructions:

1. Fill a large pot 2/3 full with water and set over high heat to boil.
2) Place the carrots, zucchini, and broccoli and pasta in a plastic pitcher.
3) When the water boils transfer the pasta carrots, zucchini and broccoli to the pot
4). Stir occasionally with a wooden spoon, approximately 8 minutes.
5) Test the pasta - it should be slightly chewy but not hard or stiff, the vegetables & carrots will be done also.
6) Drain the combination into a colander--

While cooking let the little ones use scissors to snip the fresh dill and set in a bowl.

7) Place the pasta and vegetables back in the pot,
8) Melt the butter over the pasta and vegetables
9) Add the dill.
10) Add salt and pepper to taste.
11) Mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon and serve immediately.

Makes 4 servings

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