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Show - j "r 7 1 It -"V.-f ';N Makes . Cents ' By VI JUDGE BLAKE H ; j Our granddaughter, her husband, and their four youngsters stayed with us one night on their way to join other family members for a Disneyland adventure. There would be at least sixteen children in the j group so I told them about the ' buddy system we used in a similar ! situation years ago. We, too, had ! many youngsters with us so we ! assigned one child to each adult and ! teenager.. This worked out well for i everyone except me and my charge, ! Brock, one of the liveliest young- ! sters you can imagine. Try as I would, I couldn't keep track of this i five-year-old rascal. Finally, when I reached him after he had darted off into the crowd for the umpteenth time, I stooped down for eye-to-eye contact and said ,with crocodile tears in my voice, "Brock, honey .1 ; was so afraid when I couldn't see you. Will you please take care of i me so I won't get lost." "Oh yes, I ! will, Grandma," he promised, and ! from that moment on, he never left j my side. Psychology really does work on i children sometimes. It worked for i me another time with my youngest son, Dan. He was always getting in trouble with his teacher and I would always take the teacher's side. Like: "Well you must have done something to make him send you to the principal's office," or "What did you really do to disrupt the class?." Then, I attended a parenting par-enting class which stressed letting your children know that you understand under-stand how they feel. The next time Dan came home railing at his teacher, I casually commented, "Goodness, that must have made you feel awful," "Oh, well, I probably deserved it" he said with a shrug. "Don't worry, I can handle it." Wow! It worked. That taught me a good lesson about dealing not only with children but with people in general. Let them know you understand how they feel. There's always a new trend in food, it seemsfinely shredded cabbage cab-bage instead of lettuce for tacos, (See BLAKE on page 6-A) Vi Blake From Page 3-A burritos, and sandwiches, for example. exam-ple. I tried it. We like it even better bet-ter than lettuce. Cabbage is one' great vegetable. Unlike lettuce, it keeps that you can always have some on hand. It's super rich in minerals and vitamins, particularly Vitamin C. I used to wonder how peasants in such countries as Mexico Mex-ico and South America, who certainly cer-tainly can't afford oranges and citrus fruits, could possibly get enough Vitamin C to stay healthy. Now I know: it's because they eat a lot of cabbage. In Ecuador, where we spent two interesting years, cabbages grow larger than basket balls. I've even seen them as large as a beach ball. The peasants buy it by the leaf to put in their soup,. How would you like to buy cabbage by the leaf? One egg, one carrot, one potato, one roll at a time? One tablespoon of sugar or salt measured out on a square of newspaper? A fourth-cup of oil poured into your own con-' (See BLAKE on page 7-A) Vi Blake From Page 6-A tainer. One stick of gum? One single cigarette? That's the norm in Ecuador. Even the wealthy send their maids to the corner store to buy a few cabbage leaves or a couple cou-ple of eggs. Here in the good old USA, we are so blessed to have access to an abundance of food attractively displayed dis-played and conveniently packaged. Dear Vi: It didn't used to be so much of a problem to remove postage post-age stamps from envelopes you forgot to mail. Not so with these convenient self-adhesive stamns you don't have to moisten. I learned this when my kids stuck a whole book of postage stamps on their color books. I couldn't blame them they probably thought that's what those pretty flower stickers were for, but how to get them off? I tried all the tricks I know for the old kind freezing, soaking in water, wa-ter, heat, and even pulling the paper away from the stamp instead of the stamp from the paper. I finally had to cut them off the paper. Now, I'll have to apply glue every time I i want to stamp a letter. Lesson: , Dpnt leave your postage stamps, especially the pretty ones, where children will find them. Verna Dillion, St. George I did some experimenting too, Verna. No success. I guess we'll just have to treat our stamps like money, which they really are. THOUGHT FOR THE , DAY: Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. -Bart Anderson READERS: This is your feature. fea-ture. Send your good ideas to IT MAKES CENTS, 328 So. 300 E. 5, St. George, Utah, 84770, or by E-mail (viblakeinfowest.com. If used here, I'll send you $2. Or a copy of one of my booklets, Kitchen Tricks, Discard Tricks, All About Rhubarb, or Vinegar, the Homemaker's Best Friend. Please state your choice. These booklets are also available to others. Price each, $2.50 plus $1.10 for postage. |