壮爸昨天讨论股票，最近08高铁高速网，很多股票受影响。我姐夫那个公司股票涨了50%还多，人家壮爸说如果我和他公司股票都涨那么多，卖了房贷就差不多还清了。然后问我他是不是就可以退休了，让我挣钱买菜吃饭就好了

我说，你给孩子们每个人准备50万学费吧，然后你就退休

他就郁闷去了

你也就是说说

餐馆松外卖的一个月4000cash

我是把卤肉包加到锅里煮的。

今天早上在NPR上听到的，赶快跑到图书馆下单了

To Win Toddler Food Battles, Take A Softer Approach

Bedtime reading seems an excellent opportunity for toddler mind control. I've recently slipped one book into heavy rotation, and in it, I've placed my highest parental aspirations.

It's called How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? and for frustrated parents, it's a full-on food fantasy. It advocates trying new food — at least one small bite of it. And, of course, it's nothing like dinner with my son Fountain.

"I only want mac and cheese! Not peas!" he said to me recently when I tried to tempt him with something green.

I replied, "Do you want to grow up to be a big boy or a little tiny boy your whole life?" But when you find yourself pleading with your 3-year-old, stoking fears of dwarfism, it's perhaps time to call for help.

Forget The Clean Plate Club

If you're in preschool purgatory with pint-size persnicketors, you want Ellyn Satter — author of two popular books on parent-child feeding relationships, patron saint of child development researchers — on speed dial. I read her some of the strategies I collected from parents of picky toddlers: using toothpicks to create green bean spaceships, awarding stickers, playing a guessing game of which chicken finger they'll eat next.

"Those parents are working way too hard," Satter says. "The rule of thumb is the harder you work to try to get food into your child, the less likely your child will eat."

Satter's idea is this: Our job as parents is to put healthy food on the table. And the kids decide whether to eat and how much — without promises of popsicles or threats to call Santa Claus, which I'm still doing even though it's February. Eventually, she says, perhaps the 10th, 20th or 30th time they try a new food, toddlers will start to like it.

"Even if he only eats bread, even if he eats five slices of bread, and drinks milk," Satter says. "Whatever he wants to eat, he can eat."

This sounded like heresy: I grew up under strict orders to clean my plate — or else! Surely my son Fountain would starve if left to his own devices.

"Young children are very, very good at regulating their intake so they are getting the proper amount of calories and fat and carbohydrates and protein for growth — as long as they're offered a healthy range of items," says Andrea Garber, chief nutritionist for the University of California, San Francisco, child obesity program.

Garber says the scientific research backs up the softer approach. In labs set up to look like preschools, kids who were offered a high-calorie first course, chose — on their own — a lower-calorie second course. And those offered a low calorie first course? They opted for a second course with higher calories.

In other words, they self-regulated. But Garber says this built-in appetite control can go haywire when parents interfere. In another experiment, kids were given a meal, followed by a snack free-for-all.

For some parents, it might seem like it would take nothing short of a visit from Captain Vegetable for their kids to eat their greens.

"And what they found was the kids who had mothers who were more restricted, when the mother wasn't present or wasn't putting restrictions on and the kid was exposed to snack foods, like cookies for example, that child ate significantly more cookies when the control was not applied," Garber says.

Thinking Long Term

Still, the idea of sitting idly by and trusting a child to eat right can be terrifying. Mary Sanders, a child psychologist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University, says nearly all parents worry their kids aren't getting enough nutrients.

"What I tell parents is, there's nothing sacred about 24 hours," Sanders says. "If you're really worried, look and see what your child has eaten over a week's time. And actually you might find they may not like broccoli but probably they had something else green."

Back on my call with Satter, I make the mistake of telling her I'll give her method a try.

"Yoda said: There's doing or not doing. There is no trying," Satter says.

She adds, "If you're good about regular meals, regular snacks, variety of meals and no pressure, I would suggest to you — after three to four months — you're going to see evidence of his sneaking up on unfamiliar food and learning to like it."

I fear it might take a little longer.

你，你不至于吧。。。有啥好怕的？

没看出来还是个暖房里的花朵。。。

有电梯的。你可能没看到。电梯很慢，这么高要走很久，你大概又会不行了。。。

这个不是露天的啊。

我和虫爸其实一样，谁也不愿意为了对方放弃事业。不过我们两个现在倒过来了，他舍不得我的工作，我也舍不得他的工作。。。

但是当年我们为了这个ld折腾得时候，我表姐说了一句话我一直记得，就是家庭是一辈子的，工作只有30年，当然，如果你是superstart，那是另外一说。

不是我打击他啊， golf真是要从小学才行~

我这次不打算让家里任何人来帮忙。无论如何家里人总不能尽我用。

如果月子里忙不过来，我多请一个人。

加醋这个难道不是全民皆知的？我不做饭的人都知道啊