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Tag Archives: Health
How to get your child to hate St. Patrick’s Day
And maybe vegetables. Mommyo: “It’s St. Patrick’s Day, The Five-Year-Old, do you know what that means?” The Five-Year-Old, excitedly: “The leprechauns filled my pot with leprechaun money?” Mommyo: “No.” The Five-Year-Old, persistently: “You filled my pot with leprechaun money?” Mommyo: … Continue reading
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Tagged Eating, Health, Holidays, Leprechaun, St. Patrick's Day
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Ouch
The Four-Year-Old, laid up with a sore throat just before Christmas: “Mommyo, when my spit and my throat meet, they get into a fight.”
Posted in Funny Stuff My Daughter Says
Tagged Common cold, Health, illness, sore throat
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In sickness and in health
Daddyo, on finding me slumped in a fetal position on the couch, buried in cats: “Mommyo, do you want to go lie down? You look like you feel awful.” Mommyo, beset by a migraine and an uncommonly severe allergy attack: … Continue reading
“Why are mosquito bites little red bumps?”
At the risk of inciting another unusually severe snowstorm, I’m going to open this blog post by commenting that aside from a few days in October, we’ve been enjoying a relatively warm fall this year. And as a result, The … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged bites, Bites and Stings, bugs, Health, Mosquito, mosquitoes, mosquitos
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Sugar Does a Body Good
The Four-Year-Old, munching contentedly on a milk chocolate pumpkin: “Mommyo, do you know why Sproing Cats eat a lot of sugar?” Mother: “No.” The Four-Year-Old, licking the last of the chocolate off her fingers: “Sproing Cats need a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Stuff My Daughter Says, Health
Tagged candy, fur, halloween, Health, sproing cats, sugar
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Mind-Control Zombie Parasites and Other News of the Week
What? A rant about penguins wearing sweaters on a Friday? Science news on a Wednesday? Doesn’t this woman know how important routine is to preschoolers? What the heck is going on? Obviously, Caterpickles Central has been invaded by mind-control zombie … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged animals, dinosaurs, Eating, Health, imperial woodpecker, mind control zombie parasites, science roundup, watermelons
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“Why do I have to be clean?”
Preschooler, on bath night: “Why do I have to be clean?” Mother: “To stay healthy.” Preschooler: “Why?” Mother, hoping to move things along to a place where there is less questioning and more bathing: “That’s a good question for Caterpickles.” … Continue reading
In which my daughter channels Mary Poppins
The Four-Year-Old: “Mommyo, can I give the cats their medicine? I can do it all by myself. I even know the song: ‘Just a spoonful of tuna makes the medicine go down, the medicine go down.’ “
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Tagged Cat, Health, Mary Poppins, Medicine, Mulberry, Pet, Veterinarian
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Science News Roundup: Stuff that caught my eye this week
Happy Friday! (Or, er, Saturday by the time I post this.) Anyway, here are a few of the stories that caught my eye this week: Final Space Shuttle Launch: Marcia Dunn, AP Aerospace Writer, reflects on 21 years of covering … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged David Eagleman, Health, Paleontology, penguin, science roundup, Space Shuttle
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“If we eat healthy food, does that mean we’ll never die?”
Preschooler: “Mommyo, if we eat healthy food, does that mean we’ll never die?” Mother, suppressing a sigh and taking a determined chomp of her now slightly less enjoyable Granny Smith apple: “No.”
Michael Howell
Shala Howell
