Do you have trouble getting your children to eat enough fruit?

Frankly, I do not. My girls love fruit. But I recently discovered something that - for them - really increased their fruit intake. Hopefully this can help you.

I was thrift shopping and impulse purchased a beautiful glass bowl. I wanted to be able to see it regularly, so I decided to pull some fruit out of the refrigerator, put it in the bowl, and set it on the table.

On Tuesday afternoon, I put in 3 pears, 3 oranges, 3 apples and 2 bananas. By the end of lunchtime on Wednesday, the bowl was empty!That's 11 pieces of fruit between 2 kids over 3 meals! (Not to mention the vegetables that I serve at meals!) I refilled the bowl yesterday afternoon with 4 pears, 4 oranges, and 4 apples. There are now 1 pear, 1 orange and 3 apples remaining.

Somehow the visual reminder stimulates the appetite! I think this will also be great for days that Daddy is in charge. He doesn't remember to offer fruit, but with the bowl right in front of them, the girls will just ask.

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Because of my feet problems, I recently purchased a shower bench - a little plastic seat that allows to me shower quickly, but keep weight off my feet. Rachel enjoys a long shower, so she also started using my bench as she relaxed under the spray.

Randy mentioned something about it over dinner recently and asked her if she scrubbed the bench after using it. She had not, but I said that I didn't think it was a problem, as I wasn't worried about sharing "bum germs" (as we say in our house) with her.

Rachel asked, "Well what if Daddy used your bench?"

I thought I was being funny when I replied "Eww, that would be icky! If his bare bum touched it and then my bare bum touched it, well... that would be like our bums touching! Yuk." The whole time I was looking at Randy with a little spark in my eye.

Then Rachel said "Oh, like when his p*n*s stiffens and fits comfortably into your va-Gena to make a baby?"

We were  !

Now, she did not come up with this on her own...it is word-for-word straight out of Usborne Books' Pocket Scientist - Red. Which may be on your bookshelves, so watch out! :)

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