back to top EASY HEALTHY RECIPES EASY FAMILY DINNER RECIPES: BEEF Sue’s Easy Tasty Slow-Cooked Steak Ingredients 2 pieces Blade steak, bone out 3 Rashers chopped Bacon 1 large onion sliced 2 Tomatoes sliced 1 packet French Onion soup Foil ​ Method Preheat oven to 150 degrees Place steak on foil ensuring that there is enough to wrap over it Sprinkle the top of the steak with French Onion soup (only enough to cover steak) Add sliced tomatoes, then sliced onions and lay bacon on top. IMPORTANT: Wrap up foil ensuring that you seal all around. HINT: It's important to layer in this order for tomato juices to mix with the soup. Place on a baking tray Bake at 150 degrees for about 2 hours turning after one hour. Meat melts in your mouth! ​ Serve with a potato in foil and steamed vegetables ​ ​ HINT: Topping the potato with a dollop of sour cream and a sprinkling of chives adds to the presentation and flavour. ​ VARIATION: Instead of using French Onion Soup, tomato, onion and bacon on the top of steak, substitute enough water to cover the steak and top with 2 tablespoons plum jam spread over the top. Share this recipe with a friend For more Easy Tasty Recipes go to the following links: Easy Healthy Breakfasts easy healthy breakfast baked eggs and beans delicious Easy Tasty Cakes and Desserts peanut butter fudge Easy Healthy Soups Easy Healthy Fish Recipes salmon easy healthy fish recipe Easy Healthy Chicken Recipes chicken, pea and rice casserole delicious and easy to make Easy Healthy Lamb Recipes More Easy Healthy Beef Recipes best ever corn and corned meat fritters 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 BEST STARTS FOR KIDS What are The Two Best Pieces of Parenting Advice Ever? Regardless of where you live or how much money you have there are two best pieces of advice, I've learned, that make the biggest difference to a child's chances of overall life success. They are: ​ 1. Beginning with the end in mind: Know what you want to achieve, and set up habits to ensure your behaviour is consistent with your values. Set up a positive and aspirational environment for your child to learn and socialise in ​ 2. Provide a quality language and learning environment from birth. That means encouraging the qualities you'd like your child to possess as an adult. If this is hard, something easier to consider is, you likely know the things you don't want your child to be... For example: You mightn't want your child to grow up to be morbidly obese, drug dependent or in gaol. So you'd look for the opposite qualities to these: healthy, resilient and honest. ​ So to begin, what are the qualities you want to nurture in your children? ​ For example, the qualities we wanted for our children was for them to be: healthy, happy, kind, tolerant, responsible, intelligent, capable, resilient & independent as adults. We ideally wanted them to go to University, have quality friendships and quality relationships in their life. And while those qualities listed are already extensive, many other qualities were also equally important. e.g: honesty, loyalty, patience, compassion, being a nice person, etc. You may have even more than that. Having parenting goals helped guide our parenting styles to ensure we were consistent. As two simple examples: We valued health and education so we provided healthy meals, the opportunity for exercise and we modeled being healthy ourselves. We actively supported education and we also talked about the importance of goal setting and the habits which underpin them. ​ And like most parents, as our children grew, we wanted to help them achieve what they wanted. Because one wanted to be a doctor, (or vet,) & the other a 'building scientist' (an engineer,) we provided learning opportunities around their interests. One really simple consideration could be: It's likely your child will spend between eleven and thirteen years in some form of school setting (prior to any vocational or university training.) Therefore doesn't it make sense to ensure your children have got the skills to succeed there. ​ The difference in capability levels between children, on first presenting to a school environment is often quite pronounced. ​ E.g.: Can your child understand and follow staged instructions? Or do they find it difficult to listen. Are they able to visualise simple mathematical operations in their head, or are they unable to count reliably to ten. Something to consider is, while genetics has created your child's brain, it's the the wiring up that is equally important. The more neural pathways created in the brain during early childhood, the better foundation for lifelong learning. There are simply more pathways available through the brain, to both store, and retrieve, information. ​ And one of the most effective ways to help wire up a brain is through using language. Here are some ways to help develop overall language development: Extending vocabulary Providing an understanding of prepositions Developing a language of comparison e.g. Size, colour, shade, shape, age, etc Developing a language of classification: animal, plant, food, clothing, transport, weather, etc Developing awareness of sounds within words and from that, word building Developing an understanding that text conveys meaning Familiarity with the conventions of text 'Treat a child as though he is already the person he is capable of becoming.' ​ Haim Ginott Out of everything I wish parents knew, these two best pieces of parenting advice would be it. Imagine if you could change just two things early in your child's life, that would make the biggest positive difference to his or her chance of overall life success. 1. Your child's early educational opportunities matter 2. A positive social network supports success ​ 1. Beginning with the end in mind This can be a really interesting conversation to have with a partner because you'll likely have differing weightings to the same qualities. When both parents make a commitment to make a child's success a priority, and work together to achieve it, a child's chances of life success are much greater. They work together to provide positive environments, habits, educational opportunities, life experiences and social networks. Decide what qualities are important Provide experiences that support your child establishing these qualities Devise habits and organization which consistently support success over time Refine your organization and habits as required and as your child grows Increase your child's responsibility and independence over time Why begin with the end in mind? ​ What surprised us was, by starting early and knowing the qualities we wanted our children to possess, it resulted in them having much greater life choice as both adolescents and adults. Both of our kids did exactly what they wanted. One is a doctor who graduated with Distinction, the other an engineer who received multiple merit-based scholarships, including one from the CSIRO. ​ (And they still succeeded even though our family had some major life-changing health issues to deal with along the way after an accident.) 'Stacking it' by spending time early on makes sense. Your child can start school feeling like they're good at learning. And they're more likely to enjoy it and be good at it, as a result. But for those who start behind, they compare themselves to others. They can feel they're not good at learning, and can develop a negative attitude as a result. Then it's often remediation later when they're struggling, and have a negative attitude. ​ Are you more likely to act out if you're succeeding or if you're not succeeding? ​ Why would it be different for your child? ​ ​ 2. Providing a quality language and learning environment from birth works well because: The earlier your child has a good vocabulary and can comprehend what's being said to, and around them, the earlier they can learn new concepts independently. ​ The more they learn, the more they are capable of learning. Their brain is continually building neural pathways and connections. And the number of pathways and connections made, are based upon the amount of stimulation they receive. To learn more on Providing a Quality Language and Learning Environment From Birth go to: 'Talking to Babies is Important' or 'The Importance of Early Language' in the gallery below: Share this page with a friend For more information on beginning with the end in mind go to 'What Successful Families Do Differently:' Step by Step below Step By Step: Next Talking to Babies is Important Sleeping baby The Importance of Early Language Baby playing doctors with teddy Why Introduce Text Early Is My Child Speaking Normally The Importance of Counting Incidental Maths While Cooking Cooking and learning maths incidentally 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. But there are two pieces of advice that if parents knew early in their child's life, could greatly increase their children's chances of life success. So what are the two best pieces of parenting advice ever?

Back to Top EASY HEALTHY RECIPES QUICK & EASY BREAKFASTS Easy Berry Brekkie by Michael If you want to create a great impression for breakfast, Michael's Easy Berry Brekkie is a great way to do it. Here, I've prepared the recipe in a wine glass because it's transparent and the choice of glassware looks great on the table. But this recipe can be equally well-prepared in a clear plastic glass and be eaten outside. I've even seen this recipe both prepared and eaten at the beach. ​ One of Michael's Easy Berry Brekkie's greatest advantages is, it stores well and can be easily made ahead of time. And it's really healthy . ​​Ingredients 1 cup Vanilla yoghurt ½ cup Toasted Muesli (I use Carmans) 2/3 cup mixed frozen berries Method 1.In a glass put in half of the toasted muesli 2. Add 100 ml vanilla yoghurt 3. Add slightly less than half of the berries 4. REPEAT 5. Top with remaining toasted muesli, more berries and yoghurt 6. Keep in refrigerator until ready to serve 7. Add remaining berries just prior to serving 8. Garnish with mint ​ VARIATION: Add frozen mixed berries in two to three layers above muesli or yoghurt and store in refrigerator until ready to eat ​ HINT: This can be made a day ahead of time in plastic cups and used for visitors ​​​ Share this recipe with a friend For more Easy Healthy Recipes go to the following links: More Easy Healthy Breakfasts Easy Healthy Soups Easy Healthy Rice Recipes Easy Healthy Fish Recipes 10 Tips to Make Meals Kid Friendly 10 Tips to Make Meals Kid Friendly Easy Healthy Chicken Recipes Yummy Drummies done the healthy way Easy Healthy Lamb Recipes Easy Healthy Beef Recipes Easy Pasta and Pizza Recipes For more Easy Tasty Recipes and Tips go to the following links: Easy Tasty Cakes & Desserts Easy Tasty Cakes and Desserts Party Food and Entertaining Party Food and Entertaining Catering for a Crowd: Breakfast 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 FUN LEARNING GAMES Free Fun Reading Games Fun Phonics Research has proven time and time again, children learn best through play and they recall well with frequent revision. Fun phonics is a free fun reading game based on fast-paced play with frequent revision as a basis. Children don't even realize they're learning to read. To skip straight to the Instructions for Learning Phonics click here To skip straight to the links for the Fun Phonics Game Sheets click here For important information on how to best help your child learn to read scroll down. If you write your child's name in largish letters you can get your child to trace over the shapes in their name with their fingers or a pencil. Identify the bumps, curves, ovals and sticks they have in their name. Explain that everyone's name is made up of the same basic elements (ovals, sticks, bumps & curves) but the order and the number of these parts is different for each person. Starting Position Oliver * Instructions Instructions for Learning Individual Sounds or Phonics DISCOVER ​ Did you know that in English our language is based on 26 letters which produce in total 44 sounds (phonemes,) some of which are produced by a single letter and some produced by combined letters (digraphs.) ​ I've included some letter cards of the alphabet in the links below which you can copy and cut into squares. I suggest you use them for my simple modified game of snap to practise your children's sounds with them. Your children will have fun, and you'll find revising their sounds with them much more enjoyable than you might, by just reading them out. N.B. It's important to realize we are first trying to identify the sound a letter makes rather than the name of that letter. For example: a cow is called a cow, but it says 'Moo.' You can use this explanation with your child so they understand the difference between the name of a letter and the sound it makes. It's the sound a letter makes that helps your child read. For example saying letter names C (See) A (Ay) T (Tee) does not help a child sound out c a t. ​ ​ I suggest you work through the sections (linked below) beginning with single sounds lower case. Fun Phonics Games Click Links Below Game links Single Sounds Beginning Combinations Single Sounds Capitals Complex Combinations Additional links below How to Best Read a Book on the Best Parenting Advice.com is very useful to help identify reading and writing conventions such as: left to right, top to bottom, return sweep, completely finishing the text on one page before progressing to the next, how to read broken text, the use of capital letters, question marks, exclamation marks and full stops which can be taught incidentally to your child while reading them a book. ​ How to Best Read a Book Parent reading a book Loving Reading A young girl who loves to read Why Introduce Text Early Young girls reading There are also games on Best Parenting Advice.com that work on building a sight word vocabulary. For more information go to FREE FUN READING GAMES below: Level 1: Snapping Turtles Game Level 2: Crunch Crocodile Game Level 3: Micey Dicey Game Level 4: Lion Dancing Game Level 5: Iranaconda Game Level 6: I Can Toucan Game 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. Children practise skills over and over in play situations, yet aren't even aware they're doing it. Best parenting advice.com provides many examples of quick and easy games to help develop both early reading and maths skills. 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 Carrot Cake by Renae Share this recipe with a friend Ingredients 2 cups sugar 4 eggs 1 cup olive oil 2 cups plain flour 2 teas bi-carb soda 1 teas salt 1 teas cinnamon 3 cups grated carrot 1 pkt 125 g crumbled walnuts Method 1. Preheat oven to 130 degrees fan forced 2. Line a 10 inch square cake tin with baking paper 3. Mix sugar, eggs and oil together 4. Sift bi-carb and flour together and add to mixture. 5. Add salt and cinnamon to mixture. 6. Add grated carrot 7. Bake for 1 hour. Test with a skewer. Ice with Renae's Vanilla Icing or Deb's Cream Cheese Icing 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 BEST STARTS FOR KIDS The Importance of Early Language This page contains information about: ​ The different types of language Why good language skills are important How to help improve comprehension Could your child have a hearing issue? The value of staging instructions using prepositions There Are Different Types of Language Language in the home is often functional, or instructional, rather than complex ​ Complex language doesn't develop unless children are exposed to it. Reading helps ​ Hearing matters in language development. So it needs checking if there's an issue ​ Staging the complexity of instructions improves comprehension ​ Increasing understanding of prepositions increases comprehension ​ Pragmatic language develops by observing facial cues, intonation, volume, body language etc ​ Language supports future learning so vocabulary and comprehension matter Anchor 1 Have you ever considered the quality of the language you use with you children? ​ Is it possible that the language you use may be largely functional? E.g. Put your socks on please. Have you found your shoes? Grab your bag. We have to go. ​ So why do we need to take time to talk with our kids? To develop their vocabulary through reading To extend their level of comprehension by exposing them to increasingly complex concepts And to help them learn how pragmatic language works: facial expressions, intonation, inflection, volume, when to pause Why are Language Skills Important to Life Success? Complex language doesn't develop unless children are exposed to it. ​Language is the foundation for most other learning to build upon. As we grow, competent language skills are crucial for more complex understandings. A well-developed vocabulary, the ability to articulate well and the ability to read and write well, all assist us to succeed early in life. And although this doesn't necessarily guarantee life-long success, early language skills greatly increases its likelihood. Be it fair or not, in our modern society we're judged by our ability to communicate. As a parent it makes sense to ensure our children are as effective at communicating as possible. Because for many of us, our communication skills create our life. For example: Even as adults, if we go for an interview and are poor communicators, we are often judged as having less ability than we actually possess. I know someone with an IQ of 140+ who has a stutter. While he had the brainpower to do whatever he wanted, people were inclined to assess his abilities as lower than they actually were. His resultant loss of confidence made things even more difficult for him. ​ For a child to thrive in a school environment, the child needs the vocabulary to understand what's being said to them. Otherwise learning is difficult & school can become tedious. ​ Lack of early school success can set your child up with a negative attitude to formal learning. And it can be a big contributor to behaviour problems. ​ ​ Why the Ability to Follow Directions is an Indicator of Comprehension Anchor 2 How to Develop Instructional Language: I've seen children who've had very limited ability to follow directions, and this is serious, because it can affect their future learning. ​ As just one example: They could be identified at the beginning of school, by their inability to understand simple prepositions like: behind, next to, in front, beside, etc while lining up. And then, when their 3D world is reduced to a 2D world (on a page, or electronic whiteboard,) their lack of ability becomes even more apparent.​ Anchor 3 For example: While instructions may have been in single directives (one instruction at a time,) they may have been issued more quickly than the child can follow. And while they're still working out the first thing, the teacher has moved on to the second, or third direction. The potential confusion, and frustration, for these children can adversely affect their attitude to learning. Consider... Do you ever get frustrated, that your child didn't do what you asked them to, or half-did what was asked, or did it incorrectly. Or didn't even attempt it. If your child frequently misunderstands you & has difficulty producing sounds accurately it may be prudent to get their hearing checked, particularly if they're not hearing softer sounds like 'c' and 'g,' or the difference between vowels sounds like 'e' and 'i,' as in pen and pin. ​​​​Assuming there's no suspicion of a hearing disability, it can still be quite difficult for children to move from simple instructions, to more complex ones. Moving from single directives, to multiple directives, needs to be done in stages for your child to understand what's expected. And it's wise to provide familiar circumstances, as a scaffold, as you increase the difficulty. ​ ​For example: Can you please get your lunchbox? (1 variable) Can you please get your lunchbox out of your school bag? (2 variables) Can you please get your lunchbox out of the orange travel bag and put it on the sink? (4-5 variables) ​ The above examples provide staging of the difficulty of a routine you may wish your child to assume over time. ​ However, 'Can you please get "Whiskers' from behind the lounge, give her a drink of milk, some dry food and put her outside for a wee?' may be much less likely to be achieved with success. ​ Anchor 4 The Value of Staging Variables in Instructions If you haven't staged the introduction of instructions with your child, by increasing their complexity over time, they may understand less than you hope. Lack of comprehension can have both functional and behavioural implications. ​ Assuming that like most children, your positive attention is better than your negative attention, your child will likely try to do what you ask. But your child will also quickly lose interest, or become upset, if they're not achieving what you expect. What's the point for them, if they're trying their best, but you're still not happy. ​ It makes much more sense to stack it, so your child feels success. Anchor 5 ​To assist your children in following directions well, helping them to understand prepositions may help. ​ ​ We use prepositions all the time. For example: Can you put your bag inside your cupboard? The boy is behind his mate. And especially in school settings: Can you draw a circle around the blue square? ​ ​ There are a lot of prepositions and they're often used in instructions. Definition: Prepositions are words that show how nouns relate to other words within a given sentence, or to each other. The penguin is under the table. The ball is on top of the chicken. ​Where is the heart? The heart is between the Wolf and Red Riding Hood or it's in the middle. ​ Where is the Wolf? He's next to or beside the heart. ​There are some excellent first learning books that identify common prepositions and I suggest examining them with your child. Or you can also find real life examples of prepositions, or play a game like 'Swapsies' with your young child. ​ For example: 'I'm behind you and you're in front of me. But where are you now?' Swap positions. ​ Your child takes their turn; and needs to say where he, or she is, relative to you. ​ Steps To Learning 2: Next We've identified ways to help develop understanding of prepositions. For more ideas on developing more complex language skills, go to Best Starts for Kids. Or click on one of the links below. Share this page with a friend Is My Child Making Sounds Correctly Mother talking with a baby How to Best Read a Book Proximal Development is Important Talking to Babies is Important Talking to Babies is Important How to Get a Child to Listen Well How to Get a Young Child to Listen Well Developing a Love of Learning Developing a love of learning 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 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. 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. 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 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. Similarly users of this site are advised to follow any recommendations for seeking professional advice as all information on this site is generic. 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 DINNER RECIPES: WHEAT Best Breadmaker Pizza Dough Share this recipe with a friend For more Easy Healthy Recipes go to the following links: Ingredients In bread maker add the following ingredients in order 400 ml water 2 tablespoons Olive oil 2 teaspoons salt 5 cups bread flour 3 ½ teaspoons yeast ​ Method Press dough cycle on your breadmaker ​ When cycle is finished, usually around 45 minutes remove and halve quantity and roll out on a floured board ​ Place pizza base on baking paper on a tray or a well greased tray and add following topping. ​ Cook for twenty minutes or until topping begins to turn golden brown HINT: You can substitute commercial pizza bases or Lebanese bread for the pizza recipes ​ Easy Healthy Fish Recipes salmon easy healthy fish recipe Easy Healthy Chicken Recipes chicken, pea and rice casserole delicious and easy to make Easy Pasta and Pizza Recipes Easy Healthy Breakfasts easy healthy breakfast baked eggs and beans delicious Easy Tasty Cakes and Desserts peanut butter fudge Easy Healthy Soups Easy Healthy Lamb Recipes More Easy Healthy Beef Recipes best ever corn and corned meat fritters 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 DINNER RECIPES: RICE Lorraine's Easy Fried Rice Ingredients 1 cup Basmati or long grain rice 5 rashers bacon diced in 2.5 cm pieces 1 onion diced 1 cup frozen vegetables (peas, corn, carrots work well) 3 eggs beaten 3 cups boiling water ½ tablespoon Soy sauce 1 tablespoon Olive Oil Additional Olive Oil Spray ​ Method 1. Pour rice into the bottom of a microwave dish. Add three cups boiling water and boil rice in the microwave for 10 minutes. Cover for five minutes and fluff with a fork. 2. Heat 1 tablespoon Olive Oil in a large frying pan 3. Add onion and bacon to large frying pan 4. Cook on medium heat for five minutes or until onion has become transparent 5. Move bacon and onion to the edges of the frying pan and spray the centre with Olive Oil spray 6. Reduce frying pan heat to low 7. Cook beaten eggs in the microwave for 1 ½ minutes – 2 minutes 8. Chop egg into pieces with an egg flip and mix together with onion and bacon 9. Add frozen peas and ½ tablespoon soy sauce and cook on low heat for 1 minute 10.Add previously cooked rice ​ Serve with honey soy chicken wings and steamed Asian style vegetables ​ HINT: Boil the rice the evening before in the microwave for 10 minutes. Cover for five minutes and fluff with a fork. Put in refrigerator overnight. Ideally remove at least half an hour prior to cooking. ​ Share this recipe with a friend For more Easy Tasty Recipes go to the following links: Easy Pasta and Pizza Recipes 10 Tips to Make Meals Kid Friendly 10 Tips to make meals kid friendly More Easy Healthy Chicken Recipes Honey Soy Chicken Wings Easy Healthy Breakfasts Easy Healthy Soups Easy Healthy Fish Recipes Easy Healthy Lamb Recipes Easy Healthy Beef Recipes More 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 EASY FAMILY DINNER RECIPES: BEEF Home Made Hamburgers by Jamie Ingredients For Patties 500 grams of good quality minced beef 1 onion finely diced 2 eggs 1 tablespoon tomato sauce Olive Oil spray ​ For Burger 1/2 Iceberg lettuce washed and shredded 2 sliced tomatoes 4 slices cheese 1 small tin beetroot 1 small tin sliced pineapple 4 Hamburger Buns ​ Optional: Bacon and Fried Egg ​ Sauce Use either commercial tomato or BBQ sauce ​​​​​​​​Method 1. Mix above ingredients, roll into long tube shape. Wrap in glad wrap and place into refrigerator overnight. 2. Preheat horizontal grill and spray with olive oil spray. Slice tube into equal width pieces. 3. Place up to four patties at a time in grill ensuring that they're evenly spaced and flatten them by closing it 4. Cook in grill ensuring that once closed you do not open the grill again until at least five minutes have passed. This allows the patty to retain its integrity. ​ Optional: If you would like to add eggs or bacon cook after patties in grill. Serve on toasted hamburger buns with shredded lettuce, sliced tomato, beetroot, sliced cheese, sliced pineapple ​ HINT: Hamburgers retain their integrity better if they're made the night before. Share this recipe with a friend For more Easy Tasty Recipes go to the following links: Easy Healthy Breakfasts easy healthy breakfast baked eggs and beans delicious Easy Healthy Fish Recipes salmon easy healthy fish recipe Easy Healthy Chicken Recipes chicken, pea and rice casserole delicious and easy to make Easy Tasty Cakes and Desserts peanut butter fudge Easy Healthy Soups Easy Healthy Lamb Recipes More Easy Healthy Beef Recipes best ever corn and corned meat fritters 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 HEALTHY RECIPES QUICK & EASY CHICKEN DINNERS Jamie's Glazed BBQ Chicken ​Ingredients 1 BBQ chicken 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon Olive Oil 1 teaspoon minced ginger 1 teaspoon minced garlic 2 tablespoons honey 1 teaspoon cornflour ​​​​​​Method 1. Preheat oven to 150 degrees 2. Mix soy sauce, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, ginger, honey and cornflour together. 3. Spray baking dish with olive oil spray 4. Place BBQ chicken in the centre of the baking dish and pour 1/3 of the soy sauce mixture over the top OR alternatively cut into quarters, pack together in a small oven proof dish and pour liquid over each quarter 5. Cook in oven for fifteen minutes 6. Pour additional 1/3 soy sauce mixture over BBQ chicken 7. Cook for additional five minutes 8. Pour remaining 1/3 soy sauce mixture over BBQ chicken 9. Cook for additional five minutes 10. Slice chicken into serving pieces Serve with Udon noodles and steamed Asian vegetables ​ N.B. In above image chicken was cut into sections first but I suggest keeping it whole as it remains more moist Share this recipe with a friend For more Easy Healthy Recipes go to the following links: Easy Healthy Lamb Recipes 10 Tips to Make Meals Kid Friendly 10 Tips to make meals kid friendly More Easy Healthy Chicken Recipes Honey Soy Chicken Wings Easy Healthy Soups Easy Healthy Breakfasts Easy Healthy Fish Recipes Easy Healthy Beef Recipes Easy Healthy Rice 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 Making a Why I Love You Paper Chain ​ ​Some of the skills they will likely develop are: increased hand eye coordination improved cutting ability to follow a line increased hand strength and dexterity awareness of different folding techniques increased knowledge of colour blending (primary colours to secondary) creativity and the joy associated with creativity perseverance refining & trialing and error processes learning specific techniques linked to cutting and pasting development of writing skills linked to adjectives Some Language Linked to Materials and Technique collage: paste, stick, piece, cut, trim pencil drawing: trace, rule a line, rub, erase, straight, parallel cutting: follow, complete, repeat, open, close, exactly, near Share this page with a friend This paper chain can take two forms. It can be made as a whole family activity or individuals can each create their own paper chains about a specific family member focusing only on the positive aspects of the person. ​ 1. Locate a list of adjectives (This could be done using the internet.) ​ 2. Measure, then draw a series of straight parallel lines on a piece of paper. Or alternatively use Word and type three --- in a row and a line will appear. Repeat until you have a number of parallel lines drawn across the page. ​ 3. Repeat the process using a different colour 4. Cut along the lines to create coloured paper strips. These can be written upon to create positive messages about others in their family using the adjectives they previously found. ​ 5. They can then be joined together in a chain format 6. If space is an issue an alternative could be making a 3D collage out of paper strips and gluing them onto a piece of paper or card backing. This can allow for paper folding skills like consatena folding or silhouette cutting to create complex collage pieces. Go Back to Activities Gallery 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 Family Soups Soups are quick, easy, healthy & tasty family meals that are often low in calories. I usually keep cooked chicken fillets in the freezer, some vegetables cut up so I can have soup on the table within minutes of walking in the door. ​ The easy healthy soup recipes below are all very different to one another but all are delicious. ​ I hope you enjoy them. Debbie's 10 Minute Asian Style Soup Marj's Lamb and Barley Soup Jan's Easy Pumpkin Soup Chicken Soup for Sickies Chicken Soup for Sickies Chicken and Corn Soup Beef and Noodle Soup by Mick Beef and Noodle Soup Back to Top Easy Italian Soup: Hearty Vegetarian Easy Italian Soup: Hearty Vegetarian Easy Italian Soup: Hearty Vegetarian Meal is our newest featured soup recipe. NEW: It was created by me only yesterday (Feb 2020) when we had an unexpected cold snap and I felt like something hearty. ​ It's absolutely delicious and super easy to make. You can follow the instructions, or after browning the onion, you can just add all the other ingredients into the pot, stir occasionally and the soup will be delicious. Super easy... super tasty Share this group of recipes with a friend 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.