Category: Relationships Search for: Classroom rewards that aren’t food One of my readers gave me a cool resource, in response to my story about going to my son’s 6th grade teacher asking her to reconsider her policy of giving… “After I eat chocolate cake, I want to die” My friend Matthew recently sent me an email. He had just read this quote: “When I eat chocolate cake, 20 minutes later I’m under my desk wanting to die. When… Back to the candy factory…..I mean, school My children have gone back to school. If I said I was sorry about that, I’d be lying. I love my kids, but summer is hard for working moms. And… How I Spent My Summer Vacation Last week Tennyson had a close encounter with a curb he tried to jump on his bike. I had his broken tooth repaired later that day. Everything scabbed over and… My kids are constipated, what do I do? Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: “My kids are constipated and the doctor prescribed Miralax. What do I do?” My answer on video here! http://youtu.be/Jl320KWkU1M What do you eat in a day? Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: What do you eat in a day? Please tell me in detail. Answer: We get this question constantly, and actually, I’ve written on that topic four times. For… Nutrition and single parents: part 3 of 3 Thank you, single parents who commented on my two-part blog series a couple of weeks ago. I’m quoting Amanda from that blog series because what she said merits front-and-center attention:… Nutrition and single moms, part 2 of 2 Even though I am doing the very best I can for my kids’ health, even though I run a health-oriented web site and write books and speak all over the… Nutrition and single moms, part 1 of 2 Today I’m going to tell some personal things about my divorce and raising children with a divorced co-parent who has radically different nutrition opinions than a GSG does. This topic… my comments about preventive antibiotics, part 3 of 3 I guess I don’t value the “written protocols and standards of care” much–easy for me to say as I’m not a practitioner–but I have watched with dismay as we’ve become… Are “eating healthy” and “obsessed” synonymous? Part 3 of 3 If you feel you are annoying your family, go ahead and transfer their feelings to me if you want! If it helps you, you can say, “Green Smoothie Girl says… I won’t die on most hills: thoughts on parenting I had five 10-y.o. baseball players in the car last week, with this conversation: Me: Hey Tennyson, get your stuff off my expensive tennis racket! Baseball Player #2: Cool, you…
