Q: Children learn what they live, making it vital that parents set the right example with their own food choices. If parents are routinely eating and snacking on unhealthy foods, how can children be expected to do any differently? Setting the right example to get children to eat right requires parental self-discipline. Parents need to provide loving and firm guidance in making healthy and wise choices regarding food and snacks. It is most important to eat plenty of vegetables and fruits yourself. If you model positive behaviors, chances are your kids will copy you. Watch your body and facial expression as well when you try something new. In infancy, children often get fruit and vegetable baby foods, once they start eating table food, what you eat is going to be a big influence on what your kids like to eat. If you rarely serve vegetables with meals or eat fruit, don't be surprised if your kids develop the same habit. Children typically do not like changes being made to their routines, so expect children to express their dislike to newly implemented changes in the family meal plan. Calmly explain that "this is what we're having for dinner", and if children adamantly refuse to eat the planned meal, simply cover it and save it for when they say they're hungry. Remember, your home is not a cafeteria-style restaurant where children dictate what they will or will not eat. When the child later says they are hungry, simply say "Well that's good because I saved your dinner for you", then reheat as needed. For example, carrots have vitamin A which is good for skin and eyes. Make the connections between food and what it does for our bodies. For example, have them help when making salads or main meals together. They will be able to recognize what they are eating if they get to see it and feel it. It's also a great chance to discuss the food and get to understand its value better.
A: Set the right example. Offer your children many different types of foods and let them see you eat and enjoy various foods, especially fruit and vegetables. Expect some resistance and be ready to deal with it. Explain to children what each vegetable contains by way of providing healthy benefits. Get the children involved with kitchen preparation.

Q: Check the tag and use the hottest water safe for the item of clothing you're treating. If you're supposed to wash the garment using cool water only, use cold water instead so you won't warp your clothing. Concentrated liquid detergent is powerful stuff, and it should take the stain right out. Use it only for fabric softener stains that are especially large or stubborn. Leave the garment for a few minutes to let the detergent soak into the stain as a type of pretreatment. Use hot water if possible, but if the garment says "cold water only," you'll have to go with that to prevent damage from occurring. Add the same detergent into the washing machine that you used for pretreatment of the stain. Once the drying cycle is finished, the stain should be completely gone. If you still see a fabric softener stain, repeat the process.
A: Wet the stain on your clothing with warm or hot water. Rub liquid detergent into the stain. Let it soak. Wash the garment in the hottest water that is safe. Dry the garment as normal.

Q: For this trick, you need a standard deck of 52 playing cards. This trick is simple and involves basic math. You don't need any sleight of hand to perform this trick. You will perform this trick by counting out cards into four stacks. Each card is assigned a number value that will determine how many cards you count to after you make four stacks and until you reach your spectator's card. You can shuffle the deck a couple of times and then ask your spectator to cut it if you want. Then count out nine cards. Count off nine cards and separate this pile from your deck. Fan out your nine cards for the spectator. Ask the spectator to take one of the nine cards and memorize it. Don't have your spectator show you the card. Then place your pile of nine cards on the bottom of your deck. You want to re-stack your eight cards while the spectator is memorizing or showing the ninth card to the rest of the audience. You do this so that you can ensure your spectator's card goes on top of this pile. You will now explain that you will create four stacks of ten cards each. The number of cards in each stack and the card that ends up on top will magically reveal to you the location of your spectator's card. You can make up a story of how the cards have magically reshuffled in the deck, and will reveal the spectator's card location to you. As you do this, explain that you will count down from ten and if the number you say matches the card you turn over, you will stop adding cards to that stack. Explain that each card is of an equal value to the number on it. Then say that if you count all the way to one without a match, you will lay a card face down on top of the pile to cap it. Also explain that all face cards are worth 10 and any Aces are worth 1. A=1, J=10, Q=10, K=10 If you are counting down and the number you're on matches the number on the card, stop counting and move onto the next stack, starting at ten. If you begin counting down and you get to the number seven and the card you lay down is also a 7, then that stack is done. Don't place a face-down card on top of the pile when you get a match. You will use the 7 to help you tally up the number of cards you have to count before finding your spectator's at the end. If you begin a stack with a face card or a 10, then move onto the next stack. Don't place a face-down card on top. Likewise, if you get all the way down to one and the last card is an Ace, then that also counts as a match. Don't place a face-down card on top. Not all stacks will have a face-down card on top. You will use the stacks without face down cards to tally up the number of cards you count from your remaining deck until you find your spectator's card. You will now look at the stacks of cards which do not have a face-down card on top and add up the total value. If you have three stacks which found a match, you would add up the total value from the top card on each stack. For example, If your three matches were an Ace (1), 4, and Queen (10) you would add up the value to get a total of 15. Count out the number of cards equal to your total, 15, from your three face-up cards. As you do this, you can explain that the cards have magically spoken to you, and told you where to find your spectator's card. This will be your spectator's card. Flip the card over. Ask your spectator if this is the correct card.
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Grab a deck of 52 cards. Begin by shuffling the deck. Gather up the remaining eight cards into a pile and have the spectator place the ninth on top. Explain to your audience that you have enchanted the cards in this deck to speak to you. Begin counting down from ten as you place the cards into a stack face up. Count down from 10 as you place each card face up on the table. Repeat this process until you have four stacks. Add up the value of face-up cards. Flip through the remaining cards in your deck. Keep counting out the proper number of cards until you reach the last one.