Back to Top EASY HEALTHY FAMILY RECIPES QUICK & EASY SOUPS Chicken and Corn Soup ​Ingredients ​ Olive Oil spray 2 chicken fillets 1 small onion 4 cups boiling water 2 Massel chicken stock cubes 1 tin creamed corn 2 eggs coriander as a garnish I GENERALLY ADD A BOWL OF DICED CHILLI AND CHIVES FOR THE TABLE TO ADD COLOUR AND HEAT ​ Method 1. Dice onion finely 2. Chop chicken into small pieces suitable for a soup 3. Spray saucepan with olive oil spray 4. Cook onion for about three minutes until beginning to become transparent 5. Add chicken and cook for further five minutes 6. Add water and two chicken stock cubes, stirring until chicken stock cubes have dissolved 7. Add tin of creamed corn soup 8. Whisk two eggs together in a bowl 9. Add egg mixture to soup mixture in a very fine stream so that it forms noodles in the soup 10. Sprinkle with fresh coriander Serve alone or with toasted wholegrain bread for quick winter meal ​ HINT: I always keep some cooked chicken fillets and onion in small containers in the freezer so that it is possible to have a chicken based soup prepared within minutes. Share this recipe with a friend For more Easy Healthy Recipes go to the following links: Easy Healthy Breakfasts 10 Tips to Make Dinners Kid Friendly More Easy Healthy Soups Easy Healthy Fish Recipes Easy Healthy Chicken Recipes Easy Healthy Chicken Recipes Easy Healthy Lamb Recipes Easy Healthy Beef Recipes Easy Pasta and Pizza Recipes Easy Healthy Rice Recipes Back to Top Best Parenting Advice.com is a high quality parenting website designed with child and family success in mind. This site provides free resources for busy parents who want best practical advice on: effective child rearing strategies, easy healthy family meals, self-care tips for time-poor parents and fun learning games to help best educate children while also encouraging positive relationships within the family. One of the best pieces of parenting advice to help support healthy cooperative families, is to provide regular nutritious meals, eaten together as a family as often as possible. Best parenting advice provides a range of quick and easy family dinner recipes supplied by busy working parents. These are the recipes asked for: because they taste great, they're quick and easy they're family friendly and they're foolproof. ​ This site provides examples of what worked for me over decades and you are welcome to use these ideas as you see fit but you do so at your own risk. This site does not provide any guarantee that this information will work in every circumstance with every family or every child. It is your responsibility as a user of this site to ensure that you adhere to any recommended safety suggestions either implicit or explicit on this site and supervise your children while playing any games suggested. Best Parenting Advice.com is not affiliated with any other groups, clubs, religious organizations or educational systems. Best parenting takes time. The best parenting advice ever is simple: Do your best, don't give up and love your children, no matter what.

back to top EASY TASTY RECIPES Quick & Easy Cakes & Desserts Easy Lemon Dessert by Christine I think this is the quickest dessert I've ever made. It's a bit sweeter than I'm used to but my guests loved it. Ingredients 300 ml cream whipped Packet of meringues crumbled into large pieces (coloured meringues make it look more interesting) 1 bottle of lemon curd Method 1. Fold lemon curd through cream 2. Fold crumbled meringues through cream mixture Serve in small glasses or soufflé dishes ​ HINT: This dessert can taste even better the next day when meringue has softened overnight Share this recipe with a friend For more Easy Healthy Recipes go to the following links: More Easy Tasty Cakes and Desserts easy tasty cakes and desserts lemon slice delicious Easy Healthy Soups East Healthy Fish Recipes easy healthy fish dinner recipe salmon mornay Easy Healthy Chicken Recipes yummy drummy easy healthy chicken dinner recipe Easy Healthy Beef Recipes Easy Pasta and Pizza Recipes Easy Healthy Rice Recipes Easy Healthy Breakfasts Easy Healthy Lamb Recipes Back to Top Best Parenting Advice.com is a high quality parenting website designed with child and family success in mind. This site provides free resources for busy parents who want best practical advice on: effective child rearing strategies, easy healthy family meals, self-care tips for time-poor parents and fun learning games to help best educate children while also encouraging positive relationships within the family. One of the best pieces of parenting advice to help support healthy cooperative families, is to provide regular nutritious meals, eaten together as a family as often as possible. Best parenting advice provides a range of quick and easy family dinner recipes supplied by busy working parents. These are the recipes asked for: because they taste great, they're quick and easy they're family friendly and they're foolproof. ​ This site provides examples of what worked for me over decades and you are welcome to use these ideas as you see fit but you do so at your own risk. This site does not provide any guarantee that this information will work in every circumstance with every family or every child. It is your responsibility as a user of this site to ensure that you adhere to any recommended safety suggestions either implicit or explicit on this site and supervise your children while playing any games suggested. Best Parenting Advice.com is not affiliated with any other groups, clubs, religious organizations or educational systems. Best parenting takes time. The best parenting advice ever is simple: Do your best, don't give up and love your children, no matter what.

back to top SELF-CARE FOR PARENTS 6 Tips for Saving Money Making Family Life Easy 9 Have you ever wondered if you really wanted to save, what strategies could you use? Try: ​ Paying yourself first ​ Budgeting and dividing your income into five cups according to purpose ​ Paying off smallest loans first ​ Having a spend free month ​ Always asking for the best price ​ Not spending a pink one 1. Pay Yourself First: How would you go if rather than saving what's left over at the end of every pay, you instead paid yourself first. We put 9% into superannuation so we couldn't touch it. Then had our entire pay go into a home equity account so any balance helped pay off our housing loan. We also ensured we saved at least 10% of our net income as a safety net. Or for large purchases: car, furnishings, extensions (save and build,) holidays, etc. 3. The Snow Ball: Paying off my smallest loans first. For example: I pay off my credit card at the end of every month. The next priority after that was when we had a high interest car loan. When it was paid off I concentrated on my housing loan. And if I had my housing loan divided into a larger fixed interest component and a smaller variable component I'd pay the smaller amount off first. Then when that was paid off, I'd use the extra money to pay off the larger one. 5. Asking for the best price on any electrical, jewellery, (sometimes even clothing) I buy. I learnt not to assume online means cheaper. I've been amazed when I go into a shop I can often get the price reduced to between half to three quarters of the marked retail price on expensive items by asking for the best price. e.g. I went shopping to buy a ring on behalf of one of our mates for his wife. I shopped around and ended up getting it for just over half the marked price, saving him over $1500. I've done the same for my son when he was buying a juicer. By asking for the best price I saved him over $180. This Christmas, by going into the jewellery store and asking for the best price, I saved $60 on what was a $159 gift, online. Because I'm always pleasant to shop assistants they'll usually help me get a good deal if they can. And often they know about an even better option I'm unaware of, like a two for one offer or 40 % off starting tomorrow. I'll sometimes ask 'Is there any reduction for multiple items?' Which can be useful if you're buying gifts. DISCLAIMER: N.B. The financial information on Best Parenting Advice.com is what I did and what worked for me. It may not however work for you in your financial situation. For financial advice specific to you and your situation you need to seek advice from a financial advisor or accountant. There are some simple things you can do to save money ​​ 2. Five Cups for Fun: Working out a budget and dividing an income up into five sections according to the priority rating system below: a) Superannuation b). Bills and Commitments c). Necessary Consumables (fuel, food, essential items, etc) d). Savings for Larger Goal e). Disposable Income (treats, entertainment, eating out, new clothing, etc) Ranked in that priority order means savings come ahead of disposable income. Using jars/ envelopes/ separate no fee accounts can be a way of ensuring each section remains independent. A budget is great to inform what is available to put into each category. It might take a few weeks to save up so there's an initial surplus available to cover bills. ​ ​This was one of my son's ideas and it works really well because it gives an added incentive to save. But it also makes him feel better about spending money on himself for a treat because he knows other areas of his life are being taken care of. 4. Having a No Spend Month: Other than absolute necessities such as bills and basic foods after New Year I try not to spend money for a month. Ideas we've used as a family: Ride to work, pack lunch from home, invite friends over for a games night rather than go out, no alcohol for a month, meet at the beach/park for a catch up, don't go to a shopping centre for a month (don't see, not tempted,) use up what's in the freezer, etc. If you do this you'll likely be amazed how much money you previously spent on impulse buys like cups of coffee, takeaways, shoes, clothes, makeup, etc. It may even encourage you to start a regular savings plan . 6. Not spending a pink one. This was one on my girlfriend's ideas and before she knew it she'd saved $625. The concept is, every time you get a five dollar note you put it aside and save it for a 'Large Goal.' Making Family Life Easy 10: Next Share this page with a friend ​For more time, money and health savers go to the following links: Timesavers for Healthy Meals Meals on the Table in Minutes Children's Routines Back to Top Best Parenting Advice.com is a high quality parenting website designed with child and family success in mind. It highlights what successful parents do differently to those who struggle. Best Parenting advice.com provides free online resources for busy parents who want the best practical advice on: how to give kids a best start in life, better tips for parenting toddlers, effective child rearing strategies, behaviour management tips, successful goal setting and organizational strategies for successful families, easy family dinner recipes, self-care tips for time-poor parents and free kids learning games. The aim of Best Parenting Advice.com is to provide quality practical parenting tips and advice to best help children and families succeed, using the convenience of a website. ​ This website provides examples of what worked for me over decades and you are welcome to use these ideas as you see fit but you do so at your own risk. Best Parenting Advice.com does not provide any guarantee that this information will work in every circumstance with every family or with every child. It is your responsibility as a user of this website to ensure that you adhere to any recommended safety suggestions either implicit or explicit on this site and supervise your children while playing any games suggested. Similarly users of this website are advised to follow any recommendations for seeking professional advice as all information on this site is generic. 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back to top BEST STARTS FOR KIDS Things To Do With Kids During a Pandemic While Self-Isolating At Home: List 1 For Young Children Simple Learning Principles: ​ Children have greater chance of remembering new knowledge and skills if they have multiple opportunities to revise them, especially if revising it's fun. ​ Children need new knowledge and skills to link to existing knowledge and skills to be remembered and built upon over time. R efer to The Importance of Proximal Development to learn more. ​ Children learn well through games as it provides numerous opportunities for revision. Go to: Fun Learning Games for some of the games your child will have used in a classroom situation. ​ Being positive helps kids be more receptive to future learning. Remember you're trying to create a positive attitude to learning for life Check out some Learning Activities Below N.B. Those with an asterisk have linked learning activities. Click on images to explore. Those without asterisk, operate simply as idea prompts, as they are relatively self explanatory. ​ *Puzzle Solving Puzzle Solving helps develop IQ *Reading Daily: Vocab Development Mother reading to her daughter *Providing Books: A Love of Reading Two little girls reading text *Supplying Art Materials: Creativity Open Ended Art materials help produce creative kids *Dressing Up: Role Play and Imagination Dad dressing up *Pretending Shopping: Maths & Literacy A young girl learning maths and literacy skills while shopping Playing Cards: Symbol Recognition Playing cards is a great way of learning turn taking, numeral and letter recognition. Making a Cubby: Creative Play Block Building: Maths and Literacy Block building and maths and literacy skills Playing in the Sand Pit: Volume Dancing With Your Kids: Rhythm & oy Singing: Rhythm, Pitch & Listening Collaborating: Family Constructions Parents and families constructing things together Cutting and Pasting Collage: Fine Motor Creating a collage from cut ting and pasting papers and old books Providing Dramatic Play Opportunities Dramatic Play using Animals Creating Scultpures: Creativity Modelling Making Models: Following Instructions Designing Your Own Board Game Making Your Own Board Game for kids to play To encourage children to write (while in home isolation) I'm emailing a reply from the Tooth Fairy, to any letters written through this site, to her. Send letters to: contact@best-parenting-advice.com This free service is available during Isolation. If there's anything the Tooth Fairy needs to comment upon e.g. Tidying Bedrooms, Eating Healthy, Cleaning Teeth, etc include that in your parent email and I'm sure the Tooth Fairy will be happy to address it. ​ Log in and attach your child's letter. I will write back to them as soon as possible. The time delay for a response will depend upon the numbers accessing this service. Regards Deb xxx Writing a Letter to the Tooth Fairy Write a letter to the tooth fairy Share this page with your friends More Things To Do With Kids List 2 Back to Top Best Parenting Advice.com is a high quality parenting website designed with child and family success in mind. It highlights what successful parents do differently to those who struggle. Best Parenting advice.com provides free online resources for busy parents who want the best practical advice on: how to give kids a best start in life, better tips for parenting toddlers, effective child rearing strategies, behaviour management tips, successful goal setting and organizational strategies for successful families, easy family dinner recipes, self-care tips for time-poor parents and free kids learning games. The aim of Best Parenting Advice.com is to provide quality practical parenting tips and advice to best help children and families succeed, using the convenience of a website. ​ This website provides examples of what worked for me over decades and you are welcome to use these ideas as you see fit but you do so at your own risk. Best Parenting Advice.com does not provide any guarantee that this information will work in every circumstance with every family or with every child. It is your responsibility as a user of this website to ensure that you adhere to any recommended safety suggestions either implicit or explicit on this site and supervise your children while playing any games suggested. Similarly users of this website are advised to follow any recommendations for seeking professional advice as all information on this site is generic. Best Parenting Advice.com is an independent website and is not affiliated with any other groups, clubs, religious organizations or educational systems. Best parenting takes time. The best parenting advice ever is simple: Do your best, don't give up and love your children, no matter what.

back to top EASY HEALTHY RECIPES QUICK & EASY LAMB DINNERS Easiest Slow Cooker Chilli Lamb Shanks This is one of my two favourite winter lamb recipes and it's super easy to make. ​ The lamb literally falls off the bone. Ingredients 2 onions cut into wedges 6-8 lamb shanks 1 large tin Ardmona crushed tomatoes 1 heaped teaspoon minced garlic 1 heaped teaspoon minced chilli Method Cut onion into wedges and add to the slow cooker Add lamb shanks Sprinkle minced garlic and chilli over the top of lamb shanks Pour tin crushed tomatoes over the top Cook in slow cooker on high for four hours Stir through by rotating the shanks within the slow cooker and their position within the cooker Repeat the same process every two hours Remove from slow cooker when the lamb shanks begin to come off the bone Serve on top of mashed potato and pour tomato mixture from the pan over the top and fresh green beans, yellow squash and carrots HINT: You need to stir it through every few hours otherwise the shanks on the top tend to dry out a little and are not as nice My Favourite Recipes 6: Next Share this recipe with a friend For more Easy Healthy Recipes go to the following links: More Easy Healthy Lamb Recipes easy healthy lamb recipe lamb shoulder slow baked delicious Easy Healthy Chicken Recipes easy healthy chicken recipes Easy Healthy Rice Recipes Easy Healthy Breakfasts Best Ever Lunch Box Story best ever lunch box story Easy Healthy Soups Easy Healthy Fish Recipes Easy Healthy Beef Recipes Easy Pasta and Pizza Recipes Back to Top Best Parenting Advice.com is a high quality parenting website designed with child and family success in mind. This site provides free resources for busy parents who want best practical advice on: effective child rearing strategies, easy healthy family meals, self-care tips for time-poor parents and fun learning games to help best educate children while also encouraging positive relationships within the family. One of the best pieces of parenting advice to help support healthy cooperative families, is to provide regular nutritious meals, eaten together as a family as often as possible. Best parenting advice provides a range of quick and easy family dinner recipes supplied by busy working parents. These are the recipes asked for: because they taste great, they're quick and easy they're family friendly and they're foolproof. ​ This site provides examples of what worked for me over decades and you are welcome to use these ideas as you see fit but you do so at your own risk. This site does not provide any guarantee that this information will work in every circumstance with every family or every child. It is your responsibility as a user of this site to ensure that you adhere to any recommended safety suggestions either implicit or explicit on this site and supervise your children while playing any games suggested. Best Parenting Advice.com is not affiliated with any other groups, clubs, religious organizations or educational systems. Best parenting takes time. The best parenting advice ever is simple: Do your best, don't give up and love your children, no matter what.

back to top BEST STARTS FOR KIDS Things To Do With Kids At Home While Self-Isolating During a Pandemic: List 4 Repeating Pattern Artworks: Design Using Rectangles and Repetition designing an artwork from basic rectangle shape Children's Choice Learning Days Children decide the theme they want to learn about today Baking: Following Recipes Following recipes and baking with kids Creating a Combined Mural creating a combined mural Playing Hidies In The Dark: Fun Favourite games, hidies in the dark Imagining Future in 30 Years: Recording It Create what the world will be like in 30 years time Recording Grandma's Childhood When grandma was a kid record Learning To Play Chess: Strategy learning to play chess Easel Drawing on Whiteboard child drawing on a whiteboard Trialing Different Cuisines: Geography Cuisine Days help people understand different countries culture Making Beautiful Sandwiches Children create their own sandwiches and make them beautiful Creating Your Own Country Children Creating an imaginary country Writing a Play Performing A Play Making Your Own Movie Making Bread from Scratch Making bread Learning Editing Skills Learning editing Playing Charades Playing Charades Share this page with a friend Things To Do With Kids List 5 Back to Top Best Parenting Advice.com is a high quality parenting website designed with child and family success in mind. It highlights what successful parents do differently to those who struggle. Best Parenting advice.com provides free online resources for busy parents who want the best practical advice on: how to give kids a best start in life, better tips for parenting toddlers, effective child rearing strategies, behaviour management tips, successful goal setting and organizational strategies for successful families, easy family dinner recipes, self-care tips for time-poor parents and free kids learning games. The aim of Best Parenting Advice.com is to provide quality practical parenting tips and advice to best help children and families succeed, using the convenience of a website. ​ This website provides examples of what worked for me over decades and you are welcome to use these ideas as you see fit but you do so at your own risk. Best Parenting Advice.com does not provide any guarantee that this information will work in every circumstance with every family or with every child. It is your responsibility as a user of this website to ensure that you adhere to any recommended safety suggestions either implicit or explicit on this site and supervise your children while playing any games suggested. Similarly users of this website are advised to follow any recommendations for seeking professional advice as all information on this site is generic. Best Parenting Advice.com is an independent website and is not affiliated with any other groups, clubs, religious organizations or educational systems. Best parenting takes time. The best parenting advice ever is simple: Do your best, don't give up and love your children, no matter what.

back to top EASY HEALTHY RECIPES QUICK AND EASY DINNER RECIPES: VEGETABLES Deb’s Best Pumpkin Salad Ever Ingredients 1 butternut pumpkin diced into 2.5 cm cubes 1 red onion thinly sliced 1 packet feta cheese diced into small cubes 1 packet pine nuts (toasted under the grill) 100 grams semi-dried tomatoes 1 tin of chick peas rinsed and drained 1 packet baby spinach 1 packet mixed salad ​ Dressing 2 heaped tablespoons wholegrain mustard (medium heat as a minimum) 2 tablespoons honey Lemon juice from one lemon Olive oil 1 tablespoon Method Either roast pumpkin on a sheet of baking paper in the oven drizzled with olive oil until soft or to reduce time; boil pumpkin for 10 minutes in the microwave on high. Drain. Char in horizontal grill Add red onion to grill and char Combine feta cheese, pine nuts, pumpkin, semi-dried tomatoes and onion together before adding baby spinach and mixed salad. Toss ingredients together Put all dressing ingredients into a bottle and shake well. Pour over dressing just before serving ​ Serve with other salads or eat as a lunch. It's perfect for a BBQ through to being good enough for a Christmas lunch. HINT: Using the microwave or flat grill reduces the time by about an hour Share this recipe with a friend For more Easy Healthy Recipes go to the following links: Easy Healthy Breakfasts Easy Pasta and Pizza Recipes Easy Healthy Beef Recipes Best Ever Lunch Box Story best ever lunch box story Easy Healthy Soups Easy Healthy Fish Recipes Easy Healthy Chicken Recipes Easy Healthy Lamb Recipes Easy Healthy Rice Recipes Back to Top Best Parenting Advice.com is a high quality parenting website designed with child and family success in mind. This site provides free resources for busy parents who want best practical advice on: effective child rearing strategies, easy healthy family meals, self-care tips for time-poor parents and fun learning games to help best educate children while also encouraging positive relationships within the family. One of the best pieces of parenting advice to help support healthy cooperative families, is to provide regular nutritious meals, eaten together as a family as often as possible. Best parenting advice provides a range of quick and easy family dinner recipes supplied by busy working parents. These are the recipes asked for: because they taste great, they're quick and easy they're family friendly and they're foolproof. ​ This site provides examples of what worked for me over decades and you are welcome to use these ideas as you see fit but you do so at your own risk. This site does not provide any guarantee that this information will work in every circumstance with every family or every child. It is your responsibility as a user of this site to ensure that you adhere to any recommended safety suggestions either implicit or explicit on this site and supervise your children while playing any games suggested. Best Parenting Advice.com is not affiliated with any other groups, clubs, religious organizations or educational systems. Best parenting takes time. The best parenting advice ever is simple: Do your best, don't give up and love your children, no matter what.

back to top EASY HEALTHY RECIPES QUICK & EASY LAMB DINNERS Easy Healthy Lamb Stew & Dumplings Ingredients For Stew 4 large lamb forequarter chops 1 onion sliced into wedges Olive Oil for spraying 1 or 2 large potatoes peeled and diced ½ pumpkin peeled and diced Handful of string-less beans with ends removed 1 large carrot 2 tablespoons tomato sauce 1 tablespoon mixed herbs 1 bouquet garni 1 bunch chopped parsley, half kept aside for dumplings 2 cups water 2 Massel beef stock cubes ​ For Dumplings 50 g butter 2 cups flour self-raising flour 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon salt ½ remaining bunch parsley chopped Method For Stew 1. Spray large frying pan with olive oil spray 2. Brown onion 3. Add lamb, brown and cook for 5 minutes on both sides 4. Add tomato sauce, mixed herbs, beef stock cubes and half of the water and simmer, covered for ten to fifteen minutes. Stir ensuring that the bottom doesn’t stick 5. Add potatoes and pumpkin the remainder of the water and simmer, covered for a further ten minutes. Stir again ensuring that the bottom doesn’t stick 6. Add beans and carrots and simmer, covered for a further ten minutes. Stir ensuring that the bottom doesn’t stick. ​ ​For Dumplings 1. Meanwhile heat butter in microwave then rub butter through flour 2. Add milk and stir through 3. Add ½ bunch chopped parsley and teaspoon salt 4. Stir the stew ensuring that the bottom doesn’t stick and that there is still plenty of liquid. Turn temperature to low. 5. Drop dessertspoon sized scoops of mixture onto the top of the stew and cook on low for a further twenty minutes. ​ Serve as is for a hearty winter meal ​ HINT: This is an ideal recipe to do double quantities and freeze. It tastes better the following day. Share this recipe with a friend For more Easy Healthy Recipes go to the following links: More Easy Healthy Lamb Recipes easy healthy lamb shanks delicious The Real Cost of Takeaways The real cost of takeaway Easy Healthy Chicken Recipes easy healthy chicken dinner recipe delicious family meal Easy Healthy Fish Recipes Easy Healthy Beef Recipes Easy Pasta and Pizza Recipes Easy Healthy Rice Recipes easy tasty healthy fried rice within minutes Easy Healthy Breakfasts Easy Healthy Soups Back to Top Best Parenting Advice.com is a high quality parenting website designed with child and family success in mind. This site provides free resources for busy parents who want best practical advice on: effective child rearing strategies, easy healthy family meals, self-care tips for time-poor parents and fun learning games to help best educate children while also encouraging positive relationships within the family. One of the best pieces of parenting advice to help support healthy cooperative families, is to provide regular nutritious meals, eaten together as a family as often as possible. Best parenting advice provides a range of quick and easy family dinner recipes supplied by busy working parents. These are the recipes asked for: because they taste great, they're quick and easy they're family friendly and they're foolproof. ​ This site provides examples of what worked for me over decades and you are welcome to use these ideas as you see fit but you do so at your own risk. This site does not provide any guarantee that this information will work in every circumstance with every family or every child. It is your responsibility as a user of this site to ensure that you adhere to any recommended safety suggestions either implicit or explicit on this site and supervise your children while playing any games suggested. Best Parenting Advice.com is not affiliated with any other groups, clubs, religious organizations or educational systems. Best parenting takes time. The best parenting advice ever is simple: Do your best, don't give up and love your children, no matter what.

back to top EASY HEALTHY RECIPES QUICK AND EASY DINNER RECIPES: VEGETABLES Easy Potato Bake by Deb Ingredients 3 cups mashed potato 8 rashers bacon diced 1 red onion thinly sliced 2 large tomatoes thinly sliced 2 cups cheese ​ Method 1. Grease an oven proof dish 2. Place the above ingredients in layers ending with the potato on the top. 3. Cook covered with foil in a hot oven for 30 minutes before removing foil and cooking for a further 15 minutes ​ Serve with baked meat and steamed vegetables Share this recipe with a friend For more Easy Healthy Recipes go to the following links: Easy Healthy Beef Recipes Easy Healthy Breakfasts Easy Healthy Chicken Recipes easy healthy chicken dinner recipes chicken paprika Best Ever Lunch Box Story best ever lunch box story Easy Healthy Soups Easy Healthy Fish Recipes Easy Healthy Lamb Recipes Easy Pasta and Pizza Recipes Easy Healthy Rice Recipes Back to Top Best Parenting Advice.com is a high quality parenting website designed with child and family success in mind. This site provides free resources for busy parents who want best practical advice on: effective child rearing strategies, easy healthy family meals, self-care tips for time-poor parents and fun learning games to help best educate children while also encouraging positive relationships within the family. One of the best pieces of parenting advice to help support healthy cooperative families, is to provide regular nutritious meals, eaten together as a family as often as possible. Best parenting advice provides a range of quick and easy family dinner recipes supplied by busy working parents. These are the recipes asked for: because they taste great, they're quick and easy they're family friendly and they're foolproof. ​ This site provides examples of what worked for me over decades and you are welcome to use these ideas as you see fit but you do so at your own risk. This site does not provide any guarantee that this information will work in every circumstance with every family or every child. It is your responsibility as a user of this site to ensure that you adhere to any recommended safety suggestions either implicit or explicit on this site and supervise your children while playing any games suggested. Best Parenting Advice.com is not affiliated with any other groups, clubs, religious organizations or educational systems. Best parenting takes time. The best parenting advice ever is simple: Do your best, don't give up and love your children, no matter what.

Back to Top FREE FUN LEARNING GAMES Fun Maths Games For 1st and 2nd Grade 5-7 Year Olds Children need to use concrete materials to develop a good understanding of mathematical concepts before they start substituting real things for visual representations or moving onto more abstract Maths. The following free fun learning maths games devised for 5-7 year olds can be played in isolation or revised as you see fit. There are also gradations of difficulty within each game. ​ Best Parenting Advice provides high quality information designed to develop high level skills in children. You can learn as little or as much as you wish. ​ The Fun Learning Maths Games Page helps parents identify the concepts and mathematical language they could be using while playing the games to make the learning experience as rich as possible. Scroll Down to see Fun Maths Games or if you know the game you want click on the links below More or Less First to 30 Largest Number Wins Add It Go Tables Beanbag Maths Addled Flash Lowest Wins Countdown Make 10 Between 1 and 100 ​ MORE OR LESS More less FIRST TO 30 First to 30 Choose a range of small coloured items from around the house. Guess which colour is the most common. Approximate the number of items. The winner is the player who either guesses the amount correctly or gets the closest. ​ ​ Roll one die. Count the number of dots. Put a counter on that number on your caterpillar. The next person rolls their die, counts the dots and puts a counter on the corresponding number on their caterpillar. ​ Player 1 rolls the die again and counts the number of dots. They add that number onto the number on their caterpillar. HINT: See if they can bank the number they already have and count on using their fingers to guess where they will be up to on the caterpillar. Check as they count along their caterpillar. ​ The process is repeated until someone gets to number 30. You can make this more difficult by making them roll the exact number to finish. ​ To make it more difficult you can also subtract from thirty to zero. ​ LARGEST NUMBER WINS Largest GO TABLES my favourite game of all Go Tables This is a great game for travelling in the car. ​ Make the largest number from the group of numerals on a number plate of the vehicle ahead of you. e.g. above DAZ 69 becomes 96. ​ You will notice the skill you are trying to establish is greatest number first, smallest second. ​ This game can be adjusted to include older siblings. As your child gets better at this game you can make the smallest number instead or use more than two numbers. e.g 749 would become 974 ADD IT Add it 4 1 2 9 5 This is one of the best games I've known for revising tables. To begin you write down the numerals from one to twelve around a circle similar to the clock face below, in random order. Then write 2x or 5x in the middle depending on which table you are wanting to revise. This is a great game for travelling in the car. ​ Make the largest number from the group of numerals on a number plate of the vehicle ahead of you. e.g. above 1 + 8 + 8 = 17 ​ The winner is the one that ads the numerals together the quickest. First to five and then start another round. 6 12 2x 11 3 7 8 BEANBAG MATHS 10 Bean bag ​ You start the stopwatch. Beginning at the one position on the clock (where the star is) give just the answer to each number as quickly as possible going clockwise around the clock. For example 2x9 is 18 so you say 18. You continue around the clock until you reach the twelve o'clock position. You stop the stopwatch and see how long it takes you. The next player takes their turn and times themselves. The winner is the person who completes the circle in the least amount of time. If someone makes an error they need to repeat their answer correctly then continue. ​ I've recorded an example of the clock face below to help you. You will notice the speed with which you go round the clock face will improve rapidly. Get the whole family involved and see how much you all improve over a week just playing five minutes a day. Draw a series of six different sized circles on concrete. Put numeral 1 inside the largest circle, 2 in the second largest repeating the pattern until 6 is in the smallest circle. ​ Children take turns throwing a bean bag (or stone) one throw at a time. They have the option to throw lots of smaller amounts or go for the smaller circles containing higher numerals. ​ They add each of their scores together. The first to thirty is the winner. ADDLED Fold a piece of A4 paper from top to bottom (in half,) then half again, (into quarters.) ​ Open the page back out. Fold the page into thirds across the page. ​ You should end up with 12 squares on the paper. This is called the recording board. Get your child to record the numerals 1 through to 12 one in each box. ​ Repeat the process for your own scorecard. ​ Player 1: Throw two dice and add them together. Record the total by putting a coin or counter on the numeral representing that total on their numeral board. For example: 3+5 = 8. Put a counter on the 8. ​ Player 2: Throw two dice and add them together. Record the total by putting a coin or counter on the 2nd numeral board representing that total. ​ Repeat until the first player has five numerals covered. ​ N.B. If you already have that number covered you don't get to record a numeral that go and it reverts to the next players go. FLASH Put a group of dominoes face down on a table. ​ Player One picks one domino up and flashes the face to the other player for one second. ​ Player Two guesses how many dots there were altogether on the face of the domino. ​ Player One turns the face over and checks the number of dots. If Player Two was correct they get the domino. If not it's removed from the pile. ​ The process is repeated as Player 2 flashes their domino. ​ The winner is the first to five dominoes after both players have had equal turns. If there is a tie continue until one player misses. Addled Flash COUNTDOWN Countdown LOWEST WINS Lowest wins The best die to use are numeral die but as children become more proficient they will know five dots represents five instantly so you can use dots instead. ​ Player One rolls two die and makes the lowest numeral possible. e.g. 5 and 4 can be recorded as either 54 or 45 (45 being the lowest) ​ Player Two rolls two die and makes the lowest numeral possible. ​ The lowest number scores a counter. ​ The winner is the first to five counters. Begin with twenty counters each. ​ Roll a die. Remove that many counters from your pile. ​ Repeat the process for Player 2. ​ The object of the game is to have no counters left. ​ You can make the game longer by insisting the correct number has to be rolled to go out. E.g. If a player has five to go until they're out they would need to roll a five on their die to finish the game. ​ MAKE TEN Make Ten Roll a dice. How many more do you need to make ten. Take that many counters from a pile. ​ Repeat the process for Player 2. ​ The object of the game is to be the first to thirty counters. You can use the caterpillar scorecard to keep score or alternatively get your child to put their counters into equal length rows of ten. Then it's obvious when they have three equal rows totaling thirty. ​ ​ ​ BETWEEN ONE AND A HUNDRED This is a really easy game to play in the car and it's highly effective for children revising learning the numbers through to 100 Player 1: Picks a number between one and a hundred. Player 2: Tries to guess the number they feel could be the correct one. Player 1: Says 'higher' or 'lower' depending on if the correct number is higher or lower than their guess. Player 3: Using the additional information they try to guess the number they feel could be the correct one. Player 1: Again says 'higher' or 'lower' depending on if the correct number is higher or lower than their guess. ​ All players continue to repeat the process until the correct number is found. ​ Between 1 and 100 For More Fun Games go to the links below: Fun Maths Games 7-8 Years Fun Phonics Fun Reading Games Back to Top Best Parenting Advice.com is a high quality parenting website designed with child and family success in mind. This site provides free resources for busy parents who want the best practical advice possible on: effective child rearing strategies, easy healthy family meals, self-care tips for time-poor parents and fun learning games to help best educate children while also encouraging positive relationships within the family. The best parenting advice regarding creating engaged learners is to make learning as much fun as possible. That's why games work best to revise new information. 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Back to Top BEST STARTS FOR KIDS Why Use Natural Consequences? This page contains the following information: Strategies to deal with not valuing things Strategies to deal with lying Strategies to deal with deliberate rule breaking Suggested phone usage and kids Step By Step Parenting Tips 8 ​ Sometimes as parents, we try to shield our children from the harsh realities of life. For example: A child might over feed their fish (despite being told not to) and the fish dies. Their parent, concerned by the child's sadness rushes out and buys a replacement fish. And two weeks later the next fish dies... ​ Failure to let your child experience the natural consequences of their actions can result in them becoming less responsible than they otherwise might be. ​ By letting your child experience natural consequences, they learn the way the world really works. Natural consequences are a part of every day adult life and can be used if children are: Not valuing things Lying Deliberately rule breaking ​ Shielding children from natural consequences can limit their understanding of the way the world works ​ Linking increased privileges with increased responsibility, encourages maturity rather than entitlement ​ Set phone rules prior to giving a child a phone, and expect them to be maintained Children's rights are mandated by law but privileges are a bonus and can be used as a reward for responsible behaviour ​ Anchor 1 ​You could Let Your Child Experience the Natural Consequences of What They've Done if they're: ​ Not valuing things: If your child isn't taking care of something and they break it, (if it's a privilege ) they go without it for a time. Phones are currently a big issue for parents because they're so expensive to replace. It's important for children to realize their possessions need to be taken care of, rather than just be replaced, by you. ​ As an example of not valuing things: Your child leaves their guitar laying near an open window and it rains, (despite the fact you've asked them not to do this many times.) The neck of the guitar warps making it difficult to play. The natural consequence is, they don't have a guitar until they can afford to replace it. ​ ​ Children often don't learn the real value of things until either they go without them or they start earning money themselves. ​ N.B. If your teenage child is developing a sense of entitlement and expects a lot, encourage your child to get part-time work, (when they're old enough, ) for up to 10 hours a week, so they learn to value both their money and their time. ​ ​Learning the Value of Money ​My teenage son said not long after he got a part-time job: 'I'm not buying that... That costs three hours of my life.' What a great lesson to learn. Because every purchase, is costing part of someone's life. ​ Lying: Give your child the benefit of the doubt where possible, but not when you know they're lying. For example: Your child is sent from an exam room for, in their words, 'doing nothing.' And was told by the principal to tell you about it. Is it likely they really were doing nothing? Something you could say might be: 'You were sent out of an exam for doing nothing. Does that make sense to you? (Because it doesn't to me .) They may try to retell the same story but instead of buying it, re ask the same question. 'Sorry, I don't think you heard my question. 'Does that make sense to you? The principal told you that you were sent from an exam room for doing nothing. Does that make sense? How about you tell me the whole story... For example: What happened just before you were sent out of the room...' ​ And it's logical to link increased privileges for your children with increasing responsibility, remembering the goal is to raise independent capable adults. ​ Deliberately Rule Breaking: If your child is flouting the rules and being disrespectful, they may need to be made more aware of the difference between rights and privileges. C onsidering your teenagers often rely upon you for many of their privileges, this gives you some bargaining power. Fashion clothing, going to movies or concerts, access to streaming channels are privileges, not rights. Does your child expect you to supply a phone, pay for calls and internet and then treat you with disrespect if you ask them to put their phone away for meal times. ​ Would a sensible person continue to let them have this privilege? ​ ​ Dig down to find the truth. Ring the principal to thank them for caring enough to make your child tell you there had been an issue. Find out more. And then follow it up with your child. The natural consequence of lying could be: loss of independent privileges such as going to a friend's place, (where your child would need to be trusted.) Explain that lying creates holes in family relationships because it creates distrust and families members need to be able to trust one another. If for example your teenager isn't where they said they would be, the consequence of lying could be they'll be checked up on until they earn your trust back. ​ *** ​ Phone Rules Perhaps instead of just giving your child a phone in the first place, explain that it's a privilege and it will be treated as a privilege. The phone remains your property and there will be rules and expectations governing its use by your teenager. ​ ​Some suggested phone rules could be, for example: ​ The phone can only be used after kids are ready for school in the morning, until school commences. And then after school until 8:30 at night. (This ensures quality sleep.) Homework must be kept completed and if phone usage intrudes, the hours of available phone time will be reduced. Phones passwords are to be made available to parents (for young teenagers) and parents need to be able to check phones periodically to ensure they're happy with the way they're being used. ​ Phones need to be turned off during meal times. Parents need to model this behavior too as teenagers are quick to spot hypocrisy. Usage costs are expected to be kept below what you agree. If it's good enough for the parents to budget phone use, so can teenagers. Discuss there are codes of behaviour for phone usage before there is an issue. For example: swearing, online bullying or sexting are things that will not be tolerated and will result in immediate loss of phone privileges. This could be for a minimum of one week but for online bullying or sexting it could be much longer. The reinstatement of privileges would also require parent monitoring. (For example: I was talking to a parent whose 14 year old son was found to be sexting. After removing phone privileges for a time, he now has to voluntarily turn over his phone to his parents, whenever they ask, to check it out. Either that or not use it at all.) ​ Remember, by law you have to maintain your teenagers rights, but privileges are a bonus. ​ Step 9: Clear Boundaries Help Raise Good Kids ​ Step by Step 9: Next Anchor 2 Anchor 3 Anchor 4 Share this page with a friend ​For more Best Parenting Advice on behaviour strategies go to the following links: ​ Managing Behaviour Well Managing Behaviour Well Boundaries Help Raise Good Kids Setting Boundaries Why Be Consistent? Consistency, Consistency, Consistency Why Spend Postive Time Together? A father playing chess with his son can help create a positive relationship Choosing Gratitude Not Entitlement Girl kissing her dad. 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back to top EASY HEALTHY RECIPES QUICK AND EASY FAMILY DINNERS: VEGETABLES Pumpkin and Chorizo Couscous ​Method Put butter into large microwave dish and heat for 40 seconds or until melted Add diced onion and microwave on high for 4 minutes or until onion is transparent Tip into large baking dish. Using same microwave dish place pumpkin in and cover with water. Microwave on high for 8-10 minutes or until pumpkin is slightly tender. Drain Put a layer of foil onto your griller tray and add Chorizo slices, ensuring they remain flat Grill Chorizo on both sides until it browns a little (This helps remove some of the fat rather than frying it) Put two cups of Pearl couscous into the bottom of the baking dish with onion and stir ensuring that the bottom of the pan is covered HINT : If you stay away from the corners couscous is less likely to stick there Pour pumpkin and zucchini pieces over the top so that they evenly cover the tray Add grilled Chorizo sausage Sprinkle coriander over the top Pour hot chicken stock over the lot ensuring that all of couscous is covered by liquid IMPORTANT: Cover completely in foil and seal edges. Cook for 50 minutes at 180 degrees. Remove foil. Stir couscous mixture Sprinkle additional coriander over as a garnish Serve immediately Pumpkin and Chorizo Couscous is one of the yummiest recipes on this website and it's super easy to make. You might even see the steam coming off it... It was that hot when I photographed it. I could hardly wait to eat it, and every time I eat it, it's even better than I remember it being. ​ Ingredients I butternut pumpkin chopped into small (1 1/2 cm pieces ) Or you can buy it pre-chopped at the supermarket 3 chorizo sausages cut into slices 2 zucchini sliced into 2 cm x 1 cm strips 1 large onion diced 100 grams butter 2 1/2 cups hot chicken stock (I boil kettle and add two Massel stock cubes) 2 cups Pearl couscous 1/2 cup coriander ​​ Cover couscous with vegetables and then pour liquid over the top ensuring all of the couscous is covered with liquid stock. Share this recipe with a friend If you love this recipe as much as I do, your friends might too. Are you after a recipe to wow your guests? This stunning Slow Cooker Lamb Shank recipe will do it. Click on My Favourite Recipes 5 link to learn how: My Favourite Recipes 5: Next Are you after more Easy Healthy Recipes? Check out the following links. Easy Chicken Recipes easy healthy chicken dinner recipes chicken and green olives Easy Pasta and Pizza Recipes easy pasta and pizza dinner recipes delicious tuna pesto pasta Easy Healthy Fish Recipes easy healthy fish dinner recipe salmon mornay Easy Healthy Soups Easy Healthy Lamb Recipes Easy Healthy Beef Recipes Easy Tasty Cakes and Desserts easy tasty cakes and desserts banana muffins Easy Healthy Breakfasts Easy Healthy Rice Recipes Back to Top Best Parenting Advice.com is a high quality parenting website designed with child and family success in mind. This site provides free resources for busy parents who want best practical advice on: effective child rearing strategies, easy healthy family meals, self-care tips for time-poor parents and fun learning games to help best educate children while also encouraging positive relationships within the family. One of the best pieces of parenting advice to help support healthy cooperative families, is to provide regular nutritious meals, eaten together as a family as often as possible. Best parenting advice provides a range of quick and easy family dinner recipes supplied by busy working parents. These are the recipes asked for: because they taste great, they're quick and easy they're family friendly and they're foolproof. ​ This site provides examples of what worked for me over decades and you are welcome to use these ideas as you see fit but you do so at your own risk. This site does not provide any guarantee that this information will work in every circumstance with every family or every child. It is your responsibility as a user of this site to ensure that you adhere to any recommended safety suggestions either implicit or explicit on this site and supervise your children while playing any games suggested. Best Parenting Advice.com is not affiliated with any other groups, clubs, religious organizations or educational systems. Best parenting takes time. The best parenting advice ever is simple: Do your best, don't give up and love your children, no matter what.