Shish Kebab
We're having summer weather in Connecticut this week, and tonight we grilled outdoors with a few friends. Christine prepared shish-kebabs, and they were quite good -- even with her vegetarian limitations. She marinated chicken pieces in Caesar salad dressing and accidentally left them in the refrigerator overnight. As a result, the chicken was tender and tasty when we grilled it. Let's also hear it for grilled onions, which are so sweet when charcoaled.
Lulu complained that she didn't like shish-kebab chicken, but then she ate a piece and enjoyed it, and she even ate a piece of steak and enjoyed it, too. I don't know why she resists things before even trying them (okay, maybe I do), but in the presence of friends who are eating (we were with two of her girlfriends) she is willing to try more, and ends up liking it.
We drank wine and beer, ate (somewhat tasteless) watermelon, and watched the sun go down. All in all a pretty good evening until Lulu insisted on watching her fifth or sixth hour of television for the day and we had a domestic battle over it (Lulu v. me; Lulu v. Christine; Christine v. me). Television is a terrible drug, and it's getting worse in our house. I'm tempted to switch off the cable (as we did at one point last year), but then I'd miss the occasional Yankee game with Simon and the few shows I enjoy watching. Christine would suffer worse. I know we should be better with setting limits on television watching, but it's really hard. We'll start a week by saying no more than one hour of screens per day, and that will last for a while, but then it will slip and pretty soon the kids are watching 3-4 of screens. Sometimes, it seems they don't even read anymore (except) comics.
I wonder if others have good solutions for how to get the kids away from the screens without causing WWIII?
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No solutions about the television - just as I have none for games on the internet. I tried to tempt my children with books that I thought that they would find interesting and then tred to engage them in conversation about said books. I do think parents of younger children today have it more difficult than when my children were younger. My husband used to threaten the removal of the tv (we have four) but since we watch a lot of news, sports, Law and Order (I must admit that five of the isx of us are L&O junkies) and the History Channel that probably would have caused WWIII. When it is summer, the tv takes a much needed rest as we are drawn outside - the television in the cold season is much like comfort food.
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