Life with Kids is Easy!
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Russians love making and eating vareniki – a kind of stuffed dumplings. When vareniki are being made collectively (by friends or members of the family, especially together with kids), it is so much fun to make and eat them!
Ingredients for the dough: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cooking, recipe, Russian cuisine
The creation of something new takes place thanks not to the intellect but to a play instinct based on inner necessity. The creative mind plays with objects which it likes.
Carl Jung
Children are little magicians. Just by their presence, they make impossible possible. For example, absolutely any adult is able to make a toy from nothing in the presence of a little child, and during a couple of seconds!
Look how we played today:
We’d got only animals and nothing else. And then everything appeared. You create whatever you want, you go wherever you want. The limitlessness of opportunities makes you stunned!
Wherever we find ourselves: in a hospital, in some transport, in any situation of waiting – in a moment you can create a small world on a piece of paper. And no boredom, no kilos of toys taken with you. Here is the magic – the magic to be (near) a child.
Being a designer, Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, drawing with kids, early-childhood development, ideas
For the last children’s art group which gathered at our place I made a tasty curd tart (before I had tried several other recipes but finally chose this one). This time I made this curd tart for the first time after our daughter was born (she is 19 mo now). No, the preparation of this curd tart does not take much time. You just want to cook it for very special occasions 
I remember I made such a curd tart for the doctor who was examining me (together with our little one sitting in my belly) during my last months of pregnancy – I really wanted to make something pleasant for the doctor, so good she was! The curd tart was a great success!
The recipe of the curd tart
Ingredients
For the pastry: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cooking, recipe, Russian cuisine
When I took the decision to start a children’s art-group, I also decided that I would try to cook dishes for the dinner which follows the art part of the meeting myself and not to buy ready-made things in the store. And all the dishes which are on the table, should be appropriate both for little kids and adults (no chocolate, for example, which our toddler hasn’t even tasted so far).
So, at our first creative meeting we enjoyed mashed potatoes with chicken, tomatoes, vegetable marrow paste and three different cakes.
Today, I am going to share the recipe of one of these cakes with you.
The Recipe of a Delicious Cake
Ingredients:
Would you like to treat your guests to something not very ordinary? Why not bake a pie with… fruit-paste stuffing (based on fruit-paste sweets) for them?! A wonderful dessert for a Christmas table or a birthday party.
Friday. 4:40 pm. 50 minutes are left till the guests arrive. “We-ell… I have to dress myself and our daughter nicely (the latter can take, let’s say, many minutes). But I still have time to make a pie!”
To be frank, I started making this pie in the morning – as far as the dough is concerned. And now I had to put everything on a baking tray and place it into the oven for some 30 minutes.
Our good friend Gulya, a dentist, Read the rest of this entry »
I think we have found a perfect way both to improve our state when we feel tired or gloomy and the state of our little daughter when she starts misbehaving or crying.
It was in Sahaja Yoga that I first learn about the beneficial influence on the organism of baths for feet . Negative energies that we could “pick up” during the day go into the basin with water and salt. Peace sets within, negative thoughts and emotions leave us, sleep improves. And imagine how surprised I was when I found out that doctors also recommend keeping our feet in the water of comfortable temperature where some sea salt is added. Moreover, they advise to do it both for adults and kids.
Last month, the doctor who came to make a professional massage to our toddler told us something about footosoaking. Our little girl (17 mo) keeps her feet in the basin with water and salt two times a day since she turned 1 year old. She does it at the same time with us (in the morning and evening). The masseur explained to us the benefit of this activity from medical point of view:
In fact, if our daughter is in a gloomy mood it is just enough to do the footsoaking together with her for her state to improve for the better.
And today the neurologist who we attended on a routine basis prescribed our little girl the same method for strengthening her legs. When I asked the doctor what the benefits salty water are, she answered that Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: advice, children, family, ideas, kids, parents, personal development
To tell you the truth when I was getting married I was not good at cooking. Well, my pancakes with stuffings were really delicious but it was the only dish in my menu. Then I learnt some recipes from my mum and friends. My hubby also taught me to make some tasty meals. I remembered about his brand-name dishes now when there are lots of autumn vegetables and fruits in the gardens and our one-year-old started refusing from these very vegetables if they are cooked without anything else.
Millet with vegetables and berries. Recipe
Boil about a glass of millet adding a bit of salt into the pan. Warm up butter in a frying pan with high sides. Put peeled and diced carrots (2 medium-sized) and then pumpkin (about ¼ of a whole pumpkin) into the frying pan. Stew them without water under the lid. When the carrots and pumpkin have become soft, add the boiled millet into the frying pan. The dish is ready!
And now attention! It was the easiest variant of the dish. In our family, we make it a bit tastier. The real savour to it can be added by: Read the rest of this entry »
My husband and I had bought bicycles two days before our daughter was born. By now I have cycled only three times (once on my bicycle and twice on my hubby’s one ). As for Valery, my husband, he rides his bicycle almost every day. Walking with our little daughter, I always pay attention to how other parents combine cycling and their parental duties.
In such a way one of the mothers comes to the children’s playground with her little one:
I asked her why she preferred ”cloth” for the baby and not a child’s chair for the bicycle? She answered that Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: early-childhood development, family, ideas, kids, lifehack, parents
To bring up a one-year-old, to make art/creative things at the same time making a career and, in addition to it, to have time to help others – do you think it is real? Very much real and the experience of Kseniya Simonova, a 24-year-old mother from the Crimea, proves it.
This year Kseniya won in the Ukrainian Show “Ukraina Mae Talant!” having submitted the art of sand animation to the examination of the audience. For the first time in their life, many of the TV viewers saw a whole series of pictures skillfully created with sand on a glass platform and projected onto a screen. Yes, exactly, Kseniya enjoys sand art after she puts her 18-months-old son Dima to bed.
«And for what all this?» – some of you may have thought. First of all, for the sake of aesthetics, beauty and a feeling of content. When you create, you reach harmony with yourself and, thus, convey a part of it to your children. Second, as Kseniya says herself, “I decided to participate in the Competition “Ukraina Mae Talant” to help 9-months-old Nika – the little baby-girl who has been in coma for half a year already». The young artist is giving Nika’s family half of the won million of the Ukrainian national currency (Kseniya is even not acquainted with that family).
In the final part of the Show, drawing on the sand, Kseniya was telling how Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Creative Work, do-it-yourself, ideas, parents, personal development, productivity
Elena:
Our daughter was lying on a playing mat after she had turned several weeks old and then – on the floor with toys. But it is warm here and there is a carpet on the floor. I also have special places for her. For example, a basket with magazines and shelves with her toys.
And we’ve got lots of “devices” at home where I can place her: a vibrating baby’s chair, a swing, a special baby’s town where she stands, a chair for babies, etc. So, she is quite OK being alone.
Nadya:
So, about the entertainment when the cooking mummy has to handle two babies one of which is crawling. We’ve got lots of stuff on the lower shelves in the kitchen: pans, boxes with baby food and juices, new sponges for dishwashing, plastic bags, etc. All the children love to “set everything in order”. Makar throws everything onto the floor or puts some things on other shelves, collects the sponges into heaps. In a word, one may think he is studying to count and learning the colours. Just a joke And it takes much less time for the mummy to put everything in its place afterwards than for the baby to “sort everything out”.
You can also put the little one into the baby’s chair and give some biscuits and then to sweep the floor… You may give him a pan and spoons and show how to bang the latter on the pan or how to put the spoons into the pan and then to take them out… If the situation is really difficult you can even give your baby a bundle of napkins (and to say farewell to them ). Or you may switch on some active music and cook dancing and during some time even a not-walking baby will either be impressed or start dancing himself… you can also take some toys away for 2-3 months and then suddenly give them to the baby – they will be like new ones for him. But I try to cook while Makar is sleeping…
When moving from one place to another, mothers-anteaters carry their little ones on their back.
When Arseny was in his crawling period, he was sitting in his chair while I was cooking. If he was tired of waiting and I still needed to eat something, Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, food, home, ideas, kids, lifehack, parents, productivity, tips, tricks
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