Home-Baked Pizza
Recently I overheard a mother talk about having her children have one turn a week to plan the meals, as long as they were healthy. As an example of what would not do, she stated,”It can’t be pizza!” Pizza is however, one of the healthiest dinners I know. Using whole wheat dough to make the crust, and plenty of vegetables for the topping, I don’t see where you can go wrong! Read the rest of this entry »
In 2014 it will be 60 years since the poem “Children Learn what they Live” appeared in the Torrance Herald, a local newspaper (tell the kids what a local newspaper is). The author, Dorothy Louise Law, a “counselor, lecturer, instructor in family life education,” wrote an advice column in the paper.
Growing up, I used to pause before a small paper posted our refrigerator. The title was “Children Learn What They Live.” Never wondering who wrote it or how it got there, I used to ponder some of its logical propositions. Read the rest of this entry »
Ever since Sejal posted her recipe for Coconut-fig ice-cream, there has been a flurry of interest in vegan food. With the new year coming, one of the resolutions some of us toy with is to try to reduce our dependence on animal products, or eliminate them from our diet altogether. Cause we’re cool like that.
Whether for health, ethical or environmental reasons, or just to spruce up our foodie stripes, most of us could diversify our diets by bringing in some vegan items onto our menus. Here are some fun ones to get the ball rolling.
Look up “rainbow fruit sticks” and you will find hundreds of photos of neatly arranged sticks of fruit impaled upon long toothpicks in exactly rainbow coloured order, perhaps even arranged in a nice semicircle, representing the rainbow.
Certainly that is what I intended when I planned to serve rainbow colored fruit sticks at my daughter’s birthday party. I got a watermelon, papaya, pineapple, and grapes – green and purple. The purple would have to do for blue, indigo and violet. Read the rest of this entry »
Indian Homeschoolers Conference 2014
Families gathered at the India Homeschoolers Conference in Khandala 2013
The much awaited second Indian Homeschoolers Conference (IHC ’14) is here – a gathering of like minded souls at Khandala to share their experiences, learn from each other and rejoice the company of the amazing homeschooling community.
If you have not been to the conference before and want to know more about the experience please read last years report – Reflecting back at the Indian Homeschoolers Conference!. Two more articles are Khandala and the Yule-tide Spirit and First All India Homeschool Conference. Read the rest of this entry »
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