A list of American kids’ favorite foods reads like fast-food menu: Burger? Check. Pizza? Check. Sundae? Double check.
The list has been wishful thinking to the more than 175,000 children and teens under age 20 who have diabetes.  Until now.  Robyn Webb’s new cookbook, You Can Eat That!, puts these dishes and many other children’s and teen-agers’ faves back on the menu.

The soft-cover book has 182 pages of recipes, tips and nutrition information, liberally sprinkled with mouth-watering photos.  Webb, who has years of experience developing diabetes-friendly recipes, concentrates on  the kind of foods kids like to eat – chicken fingers, trail mix, birthday cake, pizza, and milk shakes.

She packs each recipe with nutrition but pays attention to the flavor, too.

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John Rosemond, the family psychologist who writes a weekly parenting column, has named four books he recommends for parents. (Rosemond is not a habitual endorser: If you believe in “traditional” parenting, you’ll probably agree with him. More the Dr. Feelgood style? Don’t bother.)

They are: Have a New Kid By Friday by Dr. Kevin Leman; Confident Parenting by Jim Burns, host of the HomeWord radio show; Internet Protect Your Kids by Stephen Arterburn and Roger Marsh; and How to Behave and Why by Munro Leaf. If the last book comes across as a tad old-fashioned, there’s a reason: The original texts were written in the 1930s and ’40s.

Rosemond takes a no-nonsense approach to parenting with little concern about warping a kid’s fragile sense of self-worth; instead he expects kids to mess up, and when they do there are consequences.
The first book, New Kid by Friday, sounds a little like boot camp. Consider the subtitle: How to Change Your Child’s Attitude, Behavior and Character in 5 Days. Dog trainers say that obedience training is more for the owners than the dogs; same rules applies here to parents.

Sit!

Read!

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