Thursday, January 20, 2011

What's the dilema? Or should i say who?

There is a concern that is, as of late become, of actual concern across the land.  Food and how we view it as parents and teachers(as a society really) in context to how we will guide our children to view the value of it.  I will not get into a rant on this but my first post, but i will say that we all have the right and capability to be concerned, voice those concerns and make something happen. 
Brief intro...
i am a father of two school aged children, 11 and 13..boy and girl....$eth and Skyllyn(dollar sign is his signature..not sure why..cause we're broke).  I am a college student in my last quarter to completing my EarlyChildhoodEducation associates degree. I have always felt that i had a knack for guiding children, so I decided, about two years ago to hang up the chef coat of about 12 years and get a degree in teaching, always being an intelligent, socially conscious and pethetic bleeding heart, this is somewhere i feel i should have been a long time ago.  Along my journey here of classroom teachings and computer research, I have been blessed with the opportunity to be indirectly mentored by some amazing people, while working in the learning center with the children, who have all the new approaches to teaching and guiding our young children in their hearts and minds at all times.  Through these experiences i have been givin the opportunity to find my place... and that would be food (its like the old cliche' about the mafia..i keep trying to get out..but they keep pulling me back in).  Through my workstudy hours i slowly had been moving closer and closer into the kitchen, before i knew it, there i was and am with all the best intentions to make a difference and sset it in stone for our children to have and become part of someday.  Its not just the food. Its talking, planting, harvesting, singing, painting, peeling, crushing, squishing, tasting, reading, smelling, touching, chewing, crunching, asking,discussing, its all of everything that is entaiiled in the education process...and it is based around the food we offer our children. HOPE is what i think when this topic is on my tongue..or fingers.so here is part of my goal with this blogging thing.


I am basically gonna post what our menu consisted of on a daily basis here at the Bates Early Childhood Learning Center and point out why i feel these items are necessary down to how we prepared them and how they were served.  I want as much feed back and resource as possible.  Starting tomorrow. 

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