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From: staffan@ca.serum.kodak.com (Kenneth Staffan (x37507))
Subject: Time Saving Ideas/Quick Food
Reply-To: staffan@serum.kodak.com
Organization: Eastman Kodak
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 19:56:06 GMT

andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard) writes:

> staffan@ca.serum.kodak.com (Kenneth Staffan (x37507)) writes:
>
> >We tried pre-preparing meals, but that still takes as much time, it's just
> >_different_ time.  Now we have an arsenal of quick-to-make meals that we
> >throw together after we get home.  Most are served over rice or pasta and
> >are variations of garlic-and-oil or oriental stir-fry.  We make them one-dish
> >meals - meat, veggies, everything go into the fry pan.  Some have been real
> >winners.  I can elaborate if desired.
>    
>    Yes, please DO elaborate.

Sorry it took so long to respond to this.  I had stashed it away to get back
to, and then kinda forgot about it!

Here's a few that have become regulars at our house.  These are all over-pasta
dishes, and I guess they're technically two-dish meals, if you count the 
pot for boiling the pasta!  (Don't be shy, try the strange sounding ones once
before ruling them out).  All serve 2-4 depending on appetites and amount of
pasta cooked, and waiting for the pasta to cook is the longest part.  

Mushrooms and Wine

	1/2 pound fresh mushrooms
	1/2 onion, chopped
	1 cup tomatoe sauce
	1 cup wine
	olive oil
	pasta

	Cook onions and mushrooms in a little oil until onions begin to
	soften.  Add wine and tomatoe sauce.  Simmer while until pasta is
	done.  Toss with pasta.  Serve!

Scallops and Zucchini

	2 medium zucchini, quartered length-wise and then cut in 1/4 inch 
		pieces
	1/2 to 1 pound fresh scallops, cut into bite-sized pieces if large
	1/4 cup butter (this one really does work best with butter as opposed
			to margarine or oil)
	couple cloves garlic, chopped
	basil
	salt & pepper if desired
	pasta

	Melt butter in large pan or wok.  Add garlic and cook for just a 
	minute or two.  Add zucchini and cook until the seeds start to show.
	Push zucchini to side and add scallops.  Cook until just opaque.
	Toss scallops & zucchini together and add basil (about 1 Tbsp if
	using dried).  Toss together with hot pasta and allow to set for
	a minute.  Serve! 

Tuna and Artichoke Hearts (Seriously - try it)

	1 6oz can tuna
	1 can artichoke hearts
	couple cloves garlic, halved
	olive oil
	red pepper flakes
	pasta

	Heat enough oil in large fry pan to cook garlic & pepper flakes
	(about 2 Tbsp).  Add garlic halves and pepper flakes (to desired
	spicyness).  Cook until garlic just starts to brown.  Remove
	garlic.  Add tuna and artichoke hearts.  Heat through.  Toss
	with pasta.  Serve!

White Clam Sauce

	2 6oz cans clams, with broth
	couple cloves garlic, chopped
	olive oil
	pasta

	Cook garlic in oil until it just begins to brown.  Add clams and
	broth.  Simmer five minutes.  Toss with pasta.  Serve!
From: gryder@Data-IO.COM (Gerald Ryder)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: cute things they say (3 yo)
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:01:57 GMT
Organization: Data I/O Corporation

I had a conversation with my 3 year old a couple of days ago, it went
like this. We were driving down hwy 167 southbound. There was a large
balloon in the shape of a blimp on a tether next to the freeway. Jordan
asks me, "what dat' daddy?" . I replied, "it is a big balloon". He then
asked, "what is it doing?" I said, "they are using it for
advertisement, to sell cars or something like that" He then wanted to
know, "what it made of?". I thought about it for a moment............
then said, "I think it is made of some sort of rubberized fabric, canvas,
or something like that". He looked at me for about a second and said,
"I don't think so". I had to laugh!
From: dsegelho@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Diane Segelhorst)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Followup to learning to talk
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:33:29 GMT
Reply-To: dsegelho@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Diane Segelhorst)
Organization: Annapolis Detachment, CDNSWC

Several times in the last few months I have solicited advice about my
son Brad's apparent delay in learning to talk.  As some of you will
remember, his pediatrician was concerned he didn't say ANY words at
either 12 or 15 months.  I had his hearing evaluated (due to the excessive
number of ear infections he has had) and it was fine.  By his 18 month
checkup he was saying "no" and "MMMOWWW" (meow) and "sss" (juice), so
the pediatrician, while slightly concerned, did not suggest any further
action at that time.

Well, Brad's language has hit that "explosion" that so many of you told
me about!  He was at a temporary sitter for about a month (where he
was not happy) after his regular sitter had a baby.  Once he went back
to the regular sitter, he started talking!  I think he added a word
or two every day!  He still says new words every day - he must be up
to a vocabulary of 50-60 words in about 6 weeks.  (Granted, some of
them are only recognizable by parents and sitter, or in context :-).

So those of you with late talkers, don't dispair!  One of these days
you'll hit the language explosion too.  It is amazing to watch.

Diane Segelhorst
dsegelho@oasys.dt.navy.mil
Mom to Brad, 20.5 months, and ???, -7 weeks
From: andy@access.digex.com (Andrew M Cohn)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Re: Mysterious Headaches-THANKS!
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:41:12 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA


 
I want to thank all those who responded to my "Mysterious Headache"
query. The input we received gave us lots of food for thought, and
ideas to discuss with our son's physican. To summarize, the possibilities
suggested were:
                1. Food allergies
                2. Low blood sugar
                3. Vision problems
                4. TMJ/Emerging molars
 
To complicate matter,s here is a transcript of the conversation I had
with our son as I was tucking him in tonight:
 
ME:   So howya feeling, Danny?
DAN:  Fine.
ME:   Anything bothering you?
DAN:  No.
ME:   How's your elbow...does it hurt?
DAN:  Uh...yeah.
 
("Act" 2, a half-hour later:)
 
ME:   Hey, how's your elbow...does it still hurt?
DAN:  Yeah...still hurts.
 
Aside, to audience: Now, there is not a darn thing wrong with his
elbow. I picked that body part at random as a little test. So now
I must add my own suggestion to the list:
 
                 5. A visit to the shrink. :<
From: jwhite@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph White)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Birth Announcement 4/3/92
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:24:03 GMT
Reply-To: jwhite@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph White)
Organization: Annapolis Detachment, CDNSWC Code 2723 
	      (formerly David Taylor Research Center, Annapolis MD)

The vital statistics:

Hillary Shannon White was finally born on April 3rd at 2:50 pm.  It was
a long 9 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days 8-).  The last 3 days were the
hardest, see below.  She weighed 9 lbs, 10 ozs, and was 22 inches long,
(just short of her brother who was 9 lbs, 15 ozs, 23 inches long almost 4
years ago).  I guess we build 'em big!

The Labor Story:

Scheduled to be induced on April 1st, Kim went into labor at 4:00 am,
so we canceled the induction to see what would happen.  Saw the doctor
at 4:00 pm, and Kim was 1+ cm dialated, 25% effaced.  The doctor said to
go home, and if the contractions got to 3-5 minutes apart for 2 hours,
or her water broke to give her a call, otherwise call the office in
the morning, and they would possibly schedule an "induction" to help
labor along, depending on how things were going.  That's what we thought
she said, so I told the labor dept to forget it when they called Thursday
morning, and asked us to be in at 8:00 am.  As the number of phone calls
increased, Kim's contractions seemed to decrease 8-(, so we went in for
another non-stress test (no problem), and a sonogram( fluid was low,
and the placenta showed signs of age. 8-().  In retrospect, we think that
the decreasing contractions, were her body's way of telling us that our
attempt at a vbac delivery, was not to be.  Turns out that had we gone in
at 8:00, they probably would have sent us home!  According to the doctor,
the L/D dept. was a zoo on Thursday, with all labor rooms filled, and
8 women laboring in the recovery room, with doctors continuing to call in
new patients!

On Friday morning, we got to the hospital at about 8:00 am.  Pitocin was
started at 8:30, and we were off to the races!  Around 10:30, the doctor
came in and broke the membranes, and no fluid came out.  Around 1:30pm,
the heart rate dropped into the 70-80 range, so the Pitocin was
discontinued.  Everything returned to normal, so the Pitocin was restarted
at a lower rate, the heart rate again fell drastically.  The doctor did an
exam, and Kim was 2 cm dialated, 50% effaced, but she thought the baby had
retreated, instead of coming down.  We decided to do a cesarean, in the
best interests of the baby and Hillary was born at 2:50!  We think that the
lack of fluid was probably the cause of Hillary's fetal distress, and might
have been a large factor in her 36 1/2 cm diameter head not descending.
Unlike our first cesarean, which happened so quick, we are convinced that
this one was the best possible thing to do.

Mom and Hillary came home on Monday April 6th, and are doing fine.

(The above has been reviewed and edited by Mom, and is posted with her
approval)

Joe White
Father of: Joshua Douglas ( 3 years, 11+ months, born 4/25/88) and
	   Hillary Shannon ( 5 days old, born 4/3/92!!!)
Newsgroups: misc.kids,alt.kids-talk,alt.parents-teens
From: whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen)
Subject: Re: Minors right of access to contraceptives?
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Chicago, IL
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 04:04:47 GMT

In article <3sbHb_mp6@cs.psu.edu> jmjoy@basic.cs.psu.edu (John M. Joy) writes:
>>
>>       v)  Giving condoms to children _encourages more sexual activity.
>>  It was felt the children would be more likely to abstain if the free
>>  condom opportunity was not available.
>
>Can anyone cite any studies to confirm this, or is this purely
>speculation?

It's not only speculation, it's BS.
Kids have sex.  It's a fact.   I know MANY kids who are now freshmen and not
virgins. If they HAVE condoms, they USE condoms.  If the condoms aren't avail-
able, they just do it without.  I believe the Guttmacher institute found that
something like 1/4 of ALL high school age girls have unprotected sex at some 
point.
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From: pronif@lonex.rl.af.mil (Frederick P. Proni)
Subject: Re:Milk in containers
Originator: pronif@lonexb.rl.af.mil
Organization: RL
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 14:52:23 GMT

As a chemist I feel that milk in glass bottles is the best (my opininion).
Plastic containers have a tendancy to breath, absorbing oders and repelling
them. For instance, carefully wash out one of those plastic milk containers
and add some purfume and water in it, cap it, wait.  You will find in most
cases that the purfume oder will pass through the plastic wall and you should
be able to smell the perfume on the outside of the plastic container unopened.
Paper containers are OK.  They are coated with wax, but what makes me wonder
is what sort of bacteria grow on the paper spout once it is opened and poured
- remember the spout is not covered with wax.  But thats trivial and not
important.  I prefer glass containers because they are recyclable, clean,
non oder absorbing, for some reason milk seems to taste silkyand clean when its
poured out of a glass bottle.  If paper and plastic are so good then why aren't
wines packed in it.  Furthermore, where I come from, milk is cheaper in glass
bottles than paper - remember reusable glass bottles reduce packaging costs.

As for light affecting it - dont worry about it.

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Newsgroups: misc.kids
From: mjkugel@iastate.edu (Michael J Kugel)
Subject: Re: At what age is day care appropriate?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 18:43:17 GMT

In article <92099.092904CXF12@psuvm.psu.edu> <CXF12@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>In article <167C3723E.EKOCK@cmsa.gmr.com>, EKOCK@cmsa.gmr.com says:
>>Explain to me, why, when I speak with
>>such women that I find them to be obsessed by trivial, banal
>>matters such as which garage sale to go to (for example).
>>I don't find these women following politics or reading books or
>>writing The Great American Novel.  Their marriages are divided
>>along strict stereotypical roles.  Daddy mows the lawn and
>>Mommy bakes the cakes.  Daddy divorces Mommy when Daddy gets
>>to be 45.  Mommy can't find a job and she tells her daughters
>>to make sure they learn a marketable skill regardless of whether
>>or not they marry.
>
>>In case you can't tell already, I have a job.  I also have a child.
>
>Well, I have a job too.  And I have a child.  (And a second one on the way.)
>I have many friends who are at home with their children, and I don't find them
>boring at all.  As a matter of fact, there are times when I am jealous of them
>because they are able to spend so much time with their children (and they have
>told me that there are times when they are jealous of me because I get to spend
>so much time with adults).  

I recently read of a study which concluded that women who work part
time are the happiest.


Newsgroups: misc.kids
From: patti@nestor.uucp (80122-stankovich)
Subject: Re: Req Repost of 1st Baby Needs
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Distribution: misc.kids
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 13:36:08 GMT
Keywords: 1st Baby

In article <aar.702844434@biometrics> aar@ph.albany.edu (Andrew Reilly) writes:
>
>	Would the person who so carefully listed useful things for a first
>baby please either repost the article (or mail it directly to me?).  I
>found it wonderful but now it is lost....
>

Me, too!!!

Thanks.
Newsgroups: misc.kids
From: judy@locus.com (Judy Leedom Tyrer)
Subject: Re: At what age is day care appropriate?
Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 20:03:02 GMT

In article <167C3723E.EKOCK@cmsa.gmr.com> EKOCK@cmsa.gmr.com writes:
>
>In case you can't tell already, I have a job.  I also have a child.
>Sure, I'd like to work fewer hours, have cheaper daycare, have it all.
>But it ain't gonna happen.  And what's this nostalgia for the past
>I hear from Judy?  A woman bearing 13 children, many of whom die in
>infancy, working her buns off is not my idea of something to bring
>back.  I don't think there was a lot of "quality time" in the old days.

I fail to see how my recommendation that a child is better off with a full
time parent during the first five years of her life is "nostalgia for the
past" or represents "a woman bearing 13 children".  You are reading one 
hell of a lot into my post which was never there to begin with, nor reflects
in any way what I believe.
>
>My son will not grow up to think of Mommies as people who are
>"home" .       Mommies are also
>not people who owe their husbands respect simply because
>Daddy makes all the money.  I hope he'll realize that in a
>family everybody must pitch in and play all the roles sometimes.

A person can take 5 years off work and return to work when their child start
school full time and still know that "Mommies work".  A person who is cared
for by Daddy can also know that "Mommies work".  Just ask my kids.

>
>I really resent the attitude that the fact that I work is somehow
>a self-indulgent luxery.  It's simply what I do.  I find this
>attitude sexist to the extreme.  Sure, if I were a millionaire
>I might not work but that decision would have nothing to do
>with whether or not I had children.  I find sometimes that
>women of my mother's generation who didn't work (the fabulous
>50's) are far more understanding about the importance of women
>taking part in all aspects of life than are younger women.

Well, the sexism is your own projection.  You make the assumption first that
primary caretaker parents MUST be women.  You also have an axe to grind about
women not oweing their husband's respect simply because the husband makes
all the money.  I'm not sure where this is coming from, but it has absolutely
nothing to do with the topic at hand.

Also, I find the opposite conclusion regarding support for parenting.  
I find those who tout women's equality are far less tolerant of those who 
choose to stay home and provide child care for their children.  My 
fundamentalist step-mother who was a stay-at-home mom in the 50s is infinitely 
more supportive of my husband's choice to rear our children than my feminist 
sister whose children were raised in day care and by nannies so she could 
write the great American novel.



-- 
"This is just a test.  Had this been a real life, you would have been given
further instructions on where to go and what to do."
							Judy Leedom Tyrer
Newsgroups: misc.kids,alt.kids-talk,alt.parents-teens,misc.education
From: mrharri@jake.cc.wayne.edu (Marissa Harrison)
Subject: Re: Minors right of access to contraceptives?
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:00:59 GMT

In article <GILHAM.92Apr13145955@assault.csl.sri.com> gilham@csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) writes:
>
>The first problem with the public schools handing out contraceptives,
>in my view, is that it alienates those parents who oppose it.  Public
>schools need to win back the confidence of parents who are the ones
>who support the schools with their votes and taxes.  In the U.S.,
>the credibility of public schooling is very low, and telling parents
>the schools know how to deal with sex issues better than the parents
>do will tend to provoke responses like, ``You can't teach them to read
>and you think you can teach sexual responsibility.''
>

You seem to be against the idea of handing out condomns.  This is an
issue that affects you and everyone.  Our children our contracting the
AIDS virus through sex and are passing it on or dying.  How would you
suggest that we get the situation under control, by telling them to
abstain??

Marissa
From: Lynn Gazis-Sax <lgsax@igc.org>
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Date: 05 Apr 92 15:06 PDT
Subject: Re: Day Care Revisited (was Re: Stu
Nf-ID: #R:1992Mar14.000539.25058@nas.nasa.:-1505851406:cdp:1427100018:000:1012
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!lgsax    Apr  5 15:06:00 1992


I'm not so sure that the government, in its social engineering
role, is promoting two earner families with day care.  The
day care deduction is a very small fraction of what we would
pay for day care here in the San Francisco Bay Area, and
the government has not passed parental leave (which would
be a really big help to two earner families - not being
forced to go back to work quite so quickly after a child
is born).  Actually, it seems to me that most people in
the government talk a good line about family issues, but
produce policies which aren't a great help either to two
earner families or to stay-at-home parents.

I certainly wouldn't object to being able to use the day
care deduction for stay-at-home parents (or, more generally,
to letting the parent who works outside the home provide
the same sort of benefits as for people who are employed),
as long as there is also some effort to make workplaces
more accomodating, and improve day care for those who need
or choose to use it.

Lynn Gazis-Sax

From: jbm@hpcndpc.CND.HP.COM (Jane Marcus)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 19:11:51 GMT
Subject: Re: La Leche League
Organization: HP Colorado Networks Division
Newsgroups: misc.kids

Since LLL has mostly volunteers, I'm sure the various chapters may be quite
different.  My experience with LLL was not positive.  I called them when
I was going back to work and wanted to ask some questions about pumping
and storing and so on.  And basically I got in response something like
"Why do you want to go back to work?".  I do not consider this sort of
thing helpful.  However, to their credit, these folks found some information
for me that was helpful, but I never felt comfortable with the group after
that.  My sister, who lives in a different geographic area had basically the 
same experience, so it may be that the LLL has a distinct philosophy regarding
Mommy Wars, I don't really know.  Note: I'm not interested in starting or
participating in Mommy Wars, I just wanted to point out that the LLL may
not be helpful in all cases.

Jane Marcus
janem@hpfclg.fc.hp.com
From: sdavis@nike.ColoSpgs.NCR.COM (Susan Davis)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Auto Accident -- Child Dies
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:12:37 GMT
Reply-To: sdavis@nike.ColoSpgs.NCR.COM (Susan Davis)
Distribution: world
Organization: NCR Microelectronic Products Division

I read a short article in yesterday's paper.  I meant to clip it so
I could post it but I forgot.  Anyway here is the basics:

There was an auto accident, two cars collided, one going North and
one going west.  A 5 year old girl who was riding on a parents 
lap was ejected from the car and died.  The car she was in was 
a minivan (from the picture, it was the one with the long nose).
The intersection where this occurred has a speed limit of 35miles/hr.

This child should not have died.  It was not that bad of an accident!

PLEASE, put your kids in their car seats and do this everytime you get
in your car.

-- Susan Davis (Mommy to Ryan -- He's almost 1!!)

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From: rag@yarra.pyramid.com.au (Robyn A Grunberg)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Re: Should we Stop at Two or Go for Three?
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:51:18 GMT
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp, Melb., Aust.

In article <1992Apr6.095838.1023@tac.fi> tios_ll@tac.fi writes:

>Maybe you stop noticing the difference after 10 or so, but who knows?

I was (and still am) the eldest of ten.  I never noticed when one was
missing (except if it was my brother Pat who we often wished would go
permanently missing).

Seriously, though, I just had my third child 6 months ago.  My other
two are 12 and 8 but both of them are devoted to Nicola.  I'm really
glad I had the third, now I'm thinking of a fourth.  (I hope my
husband's not reading this).  It seems that the older you are, the more
you enjoy your kids.

Robyn.
rag@yarra.pyramid.com.au
From: dsegelho@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Diane Segelhorst)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Cosco Toddler Bed Recall
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:19:55 GMT
Reply-To: dsegelho@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Diane Segelhorst)
Organization: Annapolis Detachment, CDNSWC

From my local paper, the Baltimore Sun, April 10, 1992
(reprinted without permission)
--------------------------
   The government yesterday announced the recall of 155,000 beds for
toddlers because 50 children, including one who died, got their heads
stuck under the metal arches on the beds.
   The government urged consumers not to use the beds until they install
newly designed replacement parts available free of charge from the company.
The beds in the recall are models T22 and T23.
   The manufacturer, Cosco Inc. of Columbus, Ind., started retrieving
the product from its retailers March 15.  It had been on the market
since December 1990.  Toys-R-Us, Service Merchandise, Sears and Walmart
Stores Inc. sold the beds for about $50 apiece.
--------------------------

Diane Segelhorst
dsegelho@oasys.dt.navy.mil
Newsgroups: misc.kids