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Get Creative to Balance Your Child's Diet

Moms try innovative ideas to make sure even picky eaters eat healthy by sneaking fruits and veggies into everyday meals.

Getting kids to eat healthy, balanced meals can be a challenge, especially if the child thinks ketchup and cereal are food groups. Moms and dads have plenty of tricks up their sleeves to coerce their children into eating healthy, such as bribery. Rather than bartering snack and sweets, these New Baltimore and Chesterfield moms get creative with their attempts to work in the fruits and veggies kids need. Angela DeWitte of Chesterfield orders most of her fruits and vegetables from Door-to-Door Organics, a company that delivers organic food from Livonia to her door on a weekly or biweekly basis. “My kids get super excited when the ‘fruit and veggie guy’ comes to the house. They right away want to help me unpack the box and help me count and …

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Christina

10:53 pm on Monday, March 7, 2011

I will have to check out Door-to-Door Organics. I like this idea! I have had good success with purees as well...I typically add pureed carrots or butternut squash to macaroni and cheese. I got a little over zealous making homemade baby food a few months back, so I had several cubes of frozen veggie purees in the freezer that I like to pop into various foods with my 4 year old being none the wiser…   more ›

Chesterfield Library Paws Program Needs Pooches

Paws for Reading helps children hone reading skills.

He's gentle, patient and will encourage you with a nudge—as long as you pat his head. It's easy to see why Little Guy, a 7-year-old border collie, makes for an ideal audience for new readers or children at the pre-reading stage. And the Chesterfield Township Library is hoping to find more volunteers like Little Guy who are certified therapy dogs that can participate in the free Paws for Reading program at the library on Patricia Avenue. It's during those sessions that kids, generally between ages 4 and 8, spend time honing their reading skills with the well-trained, quiet dog. "It's a relaxing way to practice their reading. Even very young children are practicing reading behaviors" like tracing the words from left to right, said Holly …

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