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Dinner 2 Night

Seven Flavor Hamburger

Serves 6. Recipe courtesy of Rob Shar. Ingredients 1 pound ground beef 1/2 cup chopped onion 1/4 cup chopped celery 1/4 cup chopped green bell pepper 1 teaspoon salt 1 pinch ground black pepper 1/3 cup ketchup 1 tablespoon white vinegar 1 tablespoon white sugar 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce 6 hamburger buns, split Directions Cook ground beef in a large skillet over medium heat until no longer pink. Stir frequently, and break into pieces. Drain off grease. Add onion, celery, and green pepper to the skillet, and season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring until onion is soft, about 5 minutes. Stir in ketchup, vinegar, sugar, Worcestershire sauce, and tomato sauce. Cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 20 minutes. Spoon onto buns, and serve.
Get Crafty

Wrap Suckers with Love

A Valentine's Day Special: Craft 2 Here's a craft for kids that will require some help from Mom or Dad. Wrap Suckers with Love turns ordinary suckers into a special Valentine's Day treat. What You NeedRed or Pink FeltMarkerScissorsHot GlueValentine's Day Stick-on SayingsThin White RibbonSuckers What You Do Take a sucker and lay it on the felt and mark two dots on the felt on both sides of the sucker's widest width and straight across from one another. Then put a mark at the top of the sucker to let you know how far upward to draw your heart. From one dot, draw your heart upwards and connect to the other dot — you will not have a pointed end — and be sure to go above the top dot. From one dot, draw a skirt like design downward and connect to the other dot — this acts as the wrappers opening. Now, cut the heart design out. With your scissors, cut a 1/8" vertical line about 1/4" in from the point where the heart and skirt connect — where the dots were. Do this to both sides. Now, take this heart and lay it on another piece of felt, trace and cut that one out. Then, repeat step 4 to that heart. This will leave you with two identical heart pieces; one for the front and one for the back. Take your hot glue and glue around the edges of the heart side, not the skirt end. Set aside to dry. Once dry, slide your sucker in. Cut a piece of ribbon, slide it through the little vertical slots that you made on one side, loop it around the back, slide it through the vertical slots on the other side and tie in the front. Pick out one of your stick-on Valentine's Day sayings and stick it on. I got a package of 85 stickers for $1 at Target in the dollar section. Or, you can use fabric puff paint and write whatever you like on them. These special little treats are great for school Valentine's Day hand-outs, or just to make for your own family.
One-Minute Parent

Beware Parent Yelling Syndrome

Yelling at your kids never fails to turn them off so why do so many parents do it? Because sometimes they just lose it. If you're one of those parents who gives way to stress and anger and explodes on your children, here are some quick tips that can help you simmer down when you start to feel a boil coming on: 1) BE AWARE OF WHEN YOU ARE STARTING TO RAISE YOUR VOICE. This may be the best time to actually leave the scene and cool down in another private place. 2) FIND CREATIVE WAYS TO GET YOUR POINTS ACROSS Maybe you can stand on a chair to get your kids' attention instead of yelling at them. Maybe your can start singing or something ... find out what ELSE you can do in a heated moment. This requires that you think of what you can do BEFORE an incident occurs. 3) MAKE AN ANGER COPING KIT JUST FOR YOU: Discover different calming methods that work for you. Count to ten, do some deep breathing. Perhaps some kind of destressing activity will make you better prepared for your family stresses. Yoga, pilates, dance ... there are many outlets that parents can employ. 4) EXAMINE WHY YOU GET ANGRY: Ultimately you need to decide why it's happening and confront it so you can either deal with it or let it go. Learning how to stop yelling at your children is difficult but it will be better for your entire family if you can stop. SOURCE: Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids By Keeping Your Cool by Hal Edward Runkel.

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