Present Foods with Style: Create a meal with visual appeal. Combine foods of different colors and textures. Cut fruits and vegetables into unusual shapes with a small cookie cutter. Arrange plain yogurt and a canned peach-half on a plate so that it resembles a fried egg. Make interesting funny faces with vegetable toppings on a pizza. Encourage your child to help prepare meal. Give him easy tasks like cookie cutting, pizza topping or table setting.

Spend Mealtimes Together: Give your child an opportunity to share eating experience with you and to appreciate time and effort that went into meal preparation. As he sees you trying new foods he is inspired himself to try unfamiliar foods. Praise him for a job well done in kitchen and extend a special invitation to help prepare tomorrow‘s meal.

Unfortunately, there is a second problem with responding to an e-mail solicitation for monetary donations. Assume that you regularly make donations to a large charity organization and you receive a request for a donation from that organization to help with tragedy in Asia. You can safely click link in email and make a donation, correct? Maybe not. There is still a risk that email is a scam. Many online businesses have ongoing problems with scam artists copying their sites, logos, headings, etc., and sending e-mail solicitations to scam individuals. There is no reason to believe that charitable organizations would be any less of a target, so be careful.

A third and final problem exists with email solicitations for donations. Most people incorrectly assume that when they see a familiar domain name in body of an email, it means email is legitimate. Domain names can easily be faked through a domain name masking program. It gets a bit technical, but just keep in mind that domain name in body of an email means little.

If you still compelled to respond to an email solicitation with a donation, you should use a search engine to search for organization listed in email. Once you click on to site, you can make your donation in confidence.

You donations make a world of difference for so many people in need. By following above recommendations, you can make sure that your donation is made to a legitimate charitable organization.