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esperate to get out of the house with her kids, my friend, Kirsten, recently hit on an ingenious idea. She grabbed a bag of toys she had sorted to give to Goodwill, ran outside, and hid them around the neighborhood. Her daughters, ages 8 and 10, then followed the route with her. “They were so excited to find them again,” she says. “Then they each took a turn hiding them. We were out there for two hours!”

What is it about kids and walking? Most able-bodied kids routinely take lots of steps without thinking, yet the prospect of “going on a walk” pumps some full of excitement and fills others with dread. On a recent expedition to Idler’s Rest in Moscow, one member of our party engaged in such exuberant leaping over logs that her skinny jeans split up the seams. My friend Amy’s oldest child, 11, practically has to be “forced into the car,” but as soon as they get to the trail “she takes off running. Whatever they’re playing with or doing at home seems more important until you pry them away from it. Once we’re out there, it’s always great.”

Meanwhile, in our kids’ increasingly screen-centered world, obesity rates and related health problems are reportedly skyrocketing. Walking has been touted as beneficial for intelligence, mental health, self-esteem, blood pressure, and more. We get it, we get it!

Yet does walking somehow play as too low-tech/slo-mo/linear, too, shall we say, “pedestrian,” to our kids to be cool? (For more on all this, see Tom Vanderbilt’s thought-provoking series on walking on Slate.com earlier this month, or the YouTube video, “23-1/2 hours.”) How can we get our kids out walking short of, as Kirsten suggests, leading them around with a laptop on a stick and saying, “Here’s a movie?” (Is ice cream essential—or maybe an avatar?)

Walking is a vehicle, it seems to me, for so much else. How many of us parents roamed completely unsupervised as little kids, yet rarely allow our own children to do the same?

After reading an eye-opening article a few years back which posited that overprotected “good kids from good homes” were ending up living on the streets due to a lack of opportunity to take developmentally-appropriGeoff Crimmins/Daily News ate risks (Michael Ungar, “Too Much of a The University of Idaho Arboretum and Botanical Garden is a popular place Good Thing?”, psychotherapynetworker.org),

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I started encouraging my kids to walk places independently more, at least with each other or with friends.

Without further ado, local parents’ walking recommendations. Walkers, start your engines!

MOSCOW The big draws in Moscow for walking with kids seem to be Idler’s Rest and the University of Idaho Arboretum, with several other smaller contenders. Families with younger children seem to enjoy walking downtown, while some parents report that their kids find walking in town “too boring” and would rather ride bikes or scooters.

Matt Jepsen, who has four kids ages 2 to 7, says his family walks downtown all the time, usually on Saturday mornings or after dinner.

“We usually go to Bucer’s and get a cookie or two and split it into pieces for the kids, and then maybe go to Friendship Square and play if it’s not rainy. Sometimes we pick something up at the Co-op on the way home for dinner.”

Jepsen says his 4-year-old is mostly blind and uses a cane when she’s walking somewhere new or to go up and down stairs.

Often she and her little brother ride in the double stroller, but “if we have lots of time we don’t take the stroller and have everyone walk.”

For those interested in local history, the Chamber of Commerce Web site has what director Gina Taruscio describes as a “really cool” walking tour with historic details about downtown Moscow.

Also in town, many families like to walk in the Fort Russell neighborhood to look at the historical houses and the tulips coming up, which Lahde Forbes says are “like a fairy land.” Carol Spurling says her son, Reed, 11,

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“likes to walk there more now and used to do his scooter while we walked.”

Terra Sullivan, 9, likes walking her dog through the neighborhood. Her mother, Brandy, says “there’s something nice” about her kids walking there. “I know some friends will notice them and might wave or comment to me that they saw them.”

Personally, I like walking through alleys and seeing potholes and compost piles and garden plots, all sorts of things you don’t usually get to see. While writing this article I stepped into our in-town alley and was surprised to see a duck a few feet off to my left. Averting my eyes so as to give the dislocated duck more privacy, I spied a black cat crouching at the other end of the alley, its tail waving. I took a step toward the cat, which ran away under a car. The duck stood its ground. > LATAH TRAIL: Sarah Swett enjoys walking along the Latah Trail, through Berman Creekside Park and out to Alturas Park.

She also remembers cross country skiing with her now grown son out on the Latah Trail in the winter when it hadn’t yet been plowed. > ALTURAS PARK: (1241 Alturas Drive, in Alturas Technology Park) Kim Kole says her kids, twin 10-year-old boys and a 5-yearold girl, “love it when we all walk together somewhere.” She’s taken her kids there since

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A couple walks their dogs on Howard Street in the Fort Russell neighborhood in Moscow on April 16. moving here in 2003, “and it’s been one of our favorite spots ever since. It’s just a dot of a park, but there are terraced plantings, a fun paved loop up a little hill, and a tiny fountain with koi.”

Kole says they used to feel like they were trespassing because they thought the park belonged to one of the businesses there, but then one day a city truck came to work on the fountain while their dog “Livie was

splashing in the water and we were all laughing. I apologized but he stopped me and said, ‘Oh no, have fun—it’s a public park!’ During nice weather it’s a great place to take a picnic, and there’s a table if you don’t feel like sitting on the lawn.” > HERON’S HIDEOUT: (at Carol Ryrie Brink Nature Park, on Mountain View between Sixth Street and Joseph, north of the

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fairgrounds) Chris Caudill says his family walks “all over the place,” and discovered this spot only recently. His wife, Rachel, notes that “there’s a great picnic table if you walk well beyond the pagoda, and a great stream, with active beaver. We watched the recent flood take out the beaver dam,” she says.

“We’ve also seen muskrat there.”

Amy Richard, who walked at Heron’s Hideout recently with her daughter, Zoe,

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A Kid’s-Eye View of the Palouse | Tag small paved loop with wonderful, fun, artistic details, and a larger nature path that goes past a couple of small ponds and up the hill and then back down. I loved walking there recently (and elsewhere in town) and having > HORDEMANN POND: (Kiwanis my 8-year-old point out the little trees he had Park, on Eisenhower Drive between East D helped transplant with his class. PCEI feels Street and East F Street, across from Good pretty magical.

Samaritan Village) Ami Scott’s four children, Tom Lamar, executive director, says donaages 5-9, “all find something to occupy tions have helped with the pathways. The themselves for hours. They especially like it main paved path is wheelchair accessible, and when the ducks return in the spring. They PCEI also has a wheelchair parking spot in also enjoy going along the bike trail across the outdoor classroom. from the pond that goes around and behind Good Sam and ends in the playground area > ROBINSON PARK (at the intersection at Mountain View Park. We’ll often take their of Robinson Park Road and Darby.) Coming little scooters and make a loop of the bike from town, if you park in the lot to the right, trail.” you can walk up some steps to a wooded loop trail. Robinson Park also has a creek, camp> BILL CHIPMAN PALOUSE TRAIL: ing, picnic/barbecue areas, and swings. (trailhead in Moscow at the corner of Perimeter Drive and the Moscow/Pullman > UI PLANT SCIENCE FARM: (On Highway) Note the distance-to-scale planet Highway 8 about two miles east of town, at signs, created and installed last year by Jacob Plant Science Road) Cindy Bauer says her Ellsworth’s 3rd/4th grade class at Palouse family, with four kids ages 10-23, likes to Prairie School. walk along the Latah Trail out by the farm.

I remember some very windy walks years Her kids also like to walk the dog at the farm. ago on the trail with a tot in a stroller. More “It’s a nice place to sort of ramble around,” recently, my kids and I have enjoyed riding Bauer says, “with hills, fields, and places to bikes on the trail to Pullman for, yes, ice explore. We pretend it’s ours, but we don’t cream. have to do any work.”

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> ANDERSON FRONTIER PARK: (West Palouse River Drive, across from trailer court) Annette Bridges likes walking here “because there is the park with the wetland plus the nearby steps that go up toward Ridge Road and the footpath connecting up to Walenta.”

> PARADISE RIDGE: (From Highway 95 South, turn on East Palouse River Drive, then onto Paradise Ridge Road past a company that makes rock crushers, until you get to the gate.) Harry Moore describes this as “a pretty area. You walk along a road and then you get to a trail with nice views.”

> WEST PALOUSE RIVER DRIVE, ALONG THE PALOUSE RIVER: (Park on neighborhood streets, such as Conestoga, which is currently unmarked, after the Bridge Bible Fellowship sign.) Brandy Sullivan says her kids liked walking their dog here when they lived in this neighborhood, and that they especially liked hanging out under a big huge old tree by the river with a little fort under it, and also walking out along some of the tree’s huge branches.

Another fun thing, she says, about walking here is the way the water level changes; sometimes it’s just a little trickle, sometimes the field is flooded, and sometimes there’s ice that the kids could “kind of tap on and slide around on.”

> POND 9: (From Highway 95 North, turn right on Lewis, keep going past Foothill Road, keep left, pass a farm with different animals until you reach a big sign that says “Moscow Mountain Area.” Park there and walk up the road through a gate. Take the middle of the three choices—not the road that goes down, nor the road that goes to Nearing Addition. Eventually you can walk under wire to a little pond, or continue walking up the road to the Headwaters Trail, a big loop courtesy of MAMBA, the Moscow Area Mountain Bike Association.)

More than once, I’ve headed for Idler’s Rest and inadvertently ended up here instead, or vice versa, due to unexplained mysteries of the universe. The profusion of clustering ladybugs in the spring may leave you convinced of their imminent take-over of the world.

> NORTH POLK EXTENSION: Lahde Forbes describes this as “a nice place to walk if you want to get out of town and into the country pretty quickly.” > PALOUSE-CLEARWATER ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTE: (1040 Rodeo Drive, off of N. Polk Extension.) PCEI has a

> VIRGIL PHILLIPS FARM COUNTY PARK: (Five miles north of Moscow on the west side of Highway 95, marked with a brown County Park sign.) Amy Ball says her four daughters, ages 4 to 11, all like walking there. She says her family usually does the

Tag | A Kid’s-Eye View of the Palouse smaller loop, which is the one with the wider path. I remember seeing a young moose— about the same age as my kids?—while hiking with them there several years back. > IDLER’S REST: (Go out Mountain View past the soccer fields and head north until you come to an unmarked T-intersection, which is Idler’s Rest Road. Turn right and follow this until you come to the Idler’s Rest parking area. The trail beside the lot leads through an old orchard. The main trails, through the more expansive wooded area, are directly across the road.)

Sarah Swett describes Idler’s Rest as “magic for little kids—the huge cedars, the open, park-like spaces underneath them, all feel like an elven kingdom.

Likewise, Lahde Forbes describes Idler’s Rest as a “perfect spot to bring your babies and your dogs. Your babies and toddlers can actually crawl there in the duff.” She notes that there’s a small loop trail in the shade, so “maybe your baby will last and not start whimpering too much in your backpack.”

Rachel Caudill fondly remembers standing at the “belly tree, a huge old cedar with a pregnant-looking belly,” with her then three-year-old son, Avery, and telling him that “Mommy’s belly will soon look like this, because you’re going to have a baby brother or sister.” Now she notes that the belly tree has recently succumbed to a tree fall.

Britt Heisel, mother of three boys ages 2, 4, and 6, went into labor with her youngest child while out there. For years she was “part of a Mommy group that met out there every Monday.

We’d bring snacks and walk as far as the kids wanted. They were toddlers and most of us were also weighed down with babies... and then some of us were weighed down with toddlers, babies, and pregnant bellies. Some days we didn’t get far, but that was okay—the kids would climb fallen trees, play in the creek, and find sticks. And us moms would talk and vent and commiserate and lend kind words and laugh and cry.

We would go religiously from fall through the winter and into spring. A lot of days the kids would end up soaking wet. One year we celebrated the solstice out there with candles.

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the Arboretum “a lot—right now there are Canada geese nesting on the islands in both ponds, and loud but invisible frogs everywhere.” These days, she says, she pretty much has to play tag or hide and seek to keep her six-year-old going. “When he was three and four he was a great hiker, but now he does the teenage thing: ‘Why do we ALWAYS have to hike? Don’t you know I don’t like the Arboretum AT ALL?’ But then he has a great time.”

I happen to love the Arboretum in winter—seeing animal tracks in the snow and trails left by ducks in the slush on the ponds and sometimes the glistening trees.

And, this just in: Gosling Alert! I saw eight goslings in the pond and turtles sunning themselves on the bank this week, which means that spring is officially here!

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Then the loop joins up with the Chipman Trail and comes back into Pullman at Bishop Boulevard, and then past Koppel Farms, and then down to Reaney Park and back down to the Downtown Riverwalk.”

The City of Pullman and Pullman Civic Trust had worked together since 1983 to link all these separate trails, most recently raising the necessary $500,000 to put in the two bridges in downtown Pullman. The Downtown Riverwalk is known as the “jewel in the crown,” Carloye says, since it was the “central piece that brought it all together.”

To enjoy the newest of the three spurs, Carloye says, start at Bishop Boulevard, at the end of Koppel Farm, and go out Johnson Road. From there, a paved path goes along the river past Dog Haven (the dog park and new Humane Society). > UI ARBORETUM: (Park in small lot Spur #2 is the “College Hill Climb,” which at the bottom on West Palouse River Drive, or up above in the two spots available in the UI connects the Maple Street Extension on Colgolf course parking lot, or on Nez Perce Drive lege Hill to the Grand Avenue Greenway. It’s a good way to get from downtown to campus with a permit) pretty easily, and, Carloye says, “you get a Or walk from town. Jeanne Amie nice aerial view of the trail and river below as Clothiaux says she walks regularly to the you descend.”

Arboretum from downtown with her baby The third spur, where Davis Way joins the in a stroller, past Gritman, along the Paradise Trail through campus, past Ridenbaugh Hall, Colfax Highway, leads out of Pullman toward by the Greek houses, and up Nez Perce Drive, Wawawai Road.

Sian Ritchie’s family’s favorite part of the all without encountering any stairs. loop trail is “the stretch that runs from ReMy friend Annette says her family is in

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A Kid’s-Eye View of the Palouse | Tag It starts at the park by the tennis courts and follows the sidewalk along Wawawai Road.

There are lots of bull rushes along this part, and the kids like to collect a few to waft them around and spread the fluff.

“Follow the path by the side of and through the new development, keep going where new houses are still going up (it is fun to see them at different stages of construction), until you apparently end up in a field.

“A trail loops through the field and you head down toward the Senior Center at the dead end of Center Street. This part can be very muddy!

When the Center Street houses begin, there is a path that runs behind them on the left.

“This is a fun stretch on the route, with more bull rushes, and a variety of pretty birds. This path runs along a tiny creek, and you follow it into the ponds at Sunnyside Park.

“Once you are in the park there are multiple ways to go: a trail up the hill, turtle spotting in the pond, or the playground, depending on how > SUNNYSIDE PARK: (Park in the lot off much energy you have left! We have done this of Old Wawawai near the tennis court, or on Center Street near Itani Drive) Sunnyside Park is route with scooters, since it is mostly paved or a favorite walking destination for Jung Song and well-trodden gravel, but it has to be late summer when the field is thoroughly dried out.” her daughters, Grace, 5, and Anne, 8, and for Marcia Gossard and her son, Julian, 7, though > CONSERVATION PARK: (at the western “Julian just loves to walk, so he’d go anywhere end of Darrow Street) Speaking of muddy, Lisa we’d take him!”

Carloye’s family also likes to walk at ConservaThe trail through Sunnyside, Sian Ritchie’s family’s “other favorite walk in town,” fulfills her tion Park near their home on Military Hill. Or, to be more accurate, her kids don’t particularly desire “to do loop walks rather than having to “like to go for walks, but if we go for a walk, retrace my steps. aney Park, past the city playfields, and meanders through a lovely area of open meadow, past the Koppel Farms and town allotments. It follows the river that runs through town, and you can take bikes, tricycles, and strollers.

It is relatively flat and joins with the Chipman trail for those who want to keep going. There are plenty of places to stop and mess about by the river for stick racing” and more, which she says is key for her sons, ages 8 and 10.

Ann Saberi, who grew up in Pullman walking everywhere by herself, including home from kindergarten, often walks on the trail from the library out to Koppel Farm, where she likes to “wander around and look at people’s garden plots.”

Other times she’ll head north with her daughter, Bella, 9, to a coffee shop along Stadium, where they’ll get a snack and read and do homework.

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Camping should be a euphemism for family fun

By Rio Harris | for Tag

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y little sister stood just four inches shorter than me, a mini version of me with bright blue eyes, brown hair, and her arms full of wood for the fire.

We smiled as our family proudly snapped photos of us. We had just returned from our quest to find wood for the campfire. I looked down at my sister who was beaming with excitement for the night ahead. This was our first time camping as a family.

That night we watched our mother roast a perfectly golden brown marshmallow. The next morning my sister sat in my father’s lap and watched him tie his hook to the fishing line and pick out the perfect piece of bait.

We watched in amazement as he sent out a perfect cast. Later that day we piled into dad’s Jeep and drove along the logging roads looking for wildlife.

Our parents showed us what camping really was, a fun outdoor experience. As I grew older I realized that my peers had a different idea of what camping was. I would tell them what my family camping trips were like and they would be shocked that no one got drunk.

By the time we were all old enough to go on camping trips by ourselves I was too busy,

that’s a fun one.”

What they like about it, she says, is that “you’re up high and you have great views across the valley, and you can see the wastewater treatment plant from above.

You get a bird’s eye view, and sometimes you can smell it a little bit, which is not as stinky as you’d think. You can also see the ‘eternal flame’ of methane burning.”

but I would hear the stories. I learned that camping was a euphemism for “getting drunk in the woods.” I learned that from my friends, and they learned that from their parents.

That is not what camping should be, but it is what these kids’ parents made it about.

Camping should be full of fond memories of spending time with your loved ones. Keeping your kids safe and teaching them how to live healthily at a young age will take them far in life.

Today in college I still see friends going out on weekend “camping” trips, but my camping trips are still like they used to be and I give credit to my parents for that.

You may not be one for camping but you can instill good values in your kids while doing any activity. Whether it be going on a road trip, boating, shopping, or just playing board games and watching movies on a Saturday night.

Your kids are always watching everything you do. If you set a good example then you are setting them up to be successful in their life.

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> OUT OF TOWN: Beyond the range of this article, but nonetheless highly rated by my unscientific sampling of Pullmanites, are Klemgard and Kamiak Butte county parks, and I’ll throw in Wawawai for good measure (see www.whitmancounty.org for directions).

Klemgard, says Ritchie, has a hike easy enough for three to four-year-olds. Kamiak > IN TOWN: Carloye, like many Pullman Butte, which has a short loop and a longer parents, walks or bikes with her kids to the loop, has “amazing views, varieties of wildlibrary or downtown for ice cream. Ice cream flowers, and I’ve taken a group of five and six is guaranteed on the last day of school, as well year olds up, no problem.” as on the first day the temperature hits 80 All three Whitman County parks have degrees, 90 degrees, and 100 degrees respecpicnic areas, toilets, and playgrounds, “which, tively. Another friend whose family walks into along with the picnic itself,” says Ritchie, “are town for ice cream says they also like a walk an important part of the outing. You need to that starts at the bridge at the base of South leave time for playtime at these spots.”

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One Pullman mother of a child with a disability said her family walks every weekend inside Shopko in Pullman, or the Palouse Judy Sobeloff is a freelance writer from Moscow and Mall or Eastside Marketplace in Moscow.

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Frostad retires from Palouse Pediatrics after 41 years

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ullman Regional Hospital Clinic Network, with Palouse Pediatrics, will host a retirement reception to honor Dr. Alvin Frostad from 1-4 p.m. Saturday at the Gladish Community and Cultural Center View Room. The reception is open to the public.

Frostad officially retires today from Palouse Pediatrics, after 41 years of caring for the medical needs of area children. In 1970, Frostad moved to Pullman with his wife, Deanna, and their children after serving as a pediatrician in the U.S. Army. He opened Palouse Pediatrics in November, 1970. During this time, Frostad became an active leader in Boy Scouts and continued to serve the youth of the Palouse for 38 years in this role.

Palouse Pediatrics will continue Frostad’s legacy of quality care under the direction of his son, Dr., Michael Frostad, “Dr. Mike” shares the practice with physicians Lennis Boyer, Malini Ariyawansa, Amy Kinkel and Methuel Gordon.

Retirement will find Frostad as busy as ever. He will continue to pursue his work in international medical missions and assist

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Don't worry, your secrets are safe with me

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he whole problem with teaching kids to talk is that they never stop. Once those little Gremlins learn they can communicate whatever pops into their diminutive brains, it is like a train barreling down the tracks at full speed, and there is really no stopping them.

My biggest fear isn’t what they say when I am around, it is what they say when I am not there to reinterpret it for people, like when they go to school.

There are no secrets on the playground.

It isn’t like Vegas—where what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Well, what happens in the family bathroom doesn’t always stay in the family bathroom.

Those choice experiences get passed around the playground faster than a contraband bag of Skittles. And then it goes home with all their friends . . . which may be the reason I have never been asked to be on the PTA. Kids repeat stuff they hear and stuff they think they hear, to anyone who will listen.

My youngest once told an entire group of people at the mall that, “Mommy slept on the couch because Daddy was farting all night.”

Sometimes I just shove cookies at my children to get them to be quiet. Plug the dam, so to speak, and stem the flow of speech.

Childhood obesity is not the problem. Children talking, that is the real problem.

And the thing is you can be having a perfectly lovely day and out of nowhere your kids will say something that will make you want to join the witness protection program.

One of my friends once told her 4-year-old

daughter that God loves all kinds of people and the little girl took it upon herself to tell a mildly-overweight middle-aged woman at Wal-Mart, “God loves big old ladies, too.”

And if you are a parent thinking your kids would never say anything embarrassing, I would tell you yes they have. . . probably at my house.

One of my son’s teenage friends told me recently that, “His mom was on a trip and although he missed his mom, he didn’t miss her cooking, because now they get to eat all kinds of good food like pizza and burgers and sub sandwiches every night!”

It doesn’t help to tell your kids not to say embarrassing things either. They don’t know what that means. To them embarrassing is when you kiss them on the forehead in front of their friends.

They have no problem telling people, “Mommy drove us to school in her pajamas again.” Or, “Daddy told mommy she should go on a diet or get some flashers for her rearend.”

One friend who used to work the rodeo circuit would jokingly threaten his kids to behave or he would have to get out the cattle prod. One day, when they were acting up at the grocery store his little daughter said as loudly as she could, “Oh Daddy not the cattle

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BY Sonia Todd prod again!”

And if you have something you are sensitive about, say a limp, or some mild infirmary, that stuff is like a flashing neon sign to a child, they cannot help but draw attention to it. “Look, Daddy, Aunt Lisa has a better mustache than you.” Or, “Hey! Uncle Joe is barefoot on his head!”

And if you have anything removable a child will be fascinated by that. “Billy why are you staring at Grandma?”

“She took out her teeth and put them in a

glass. I am waiting to see if she will take out her eyeballs.”

If you are pregnant a three-year-old doesn’t always know what that means. They just think you have a big belly. “Mommy, why is that lady so fat?”

“She is not fat; she has a baby in there.”

“Holy cow! She ate a baby?!”

And heaven help you if you have been talking about anyone your child may know, like a friend or relative, or their teacher.

“Mrs. Simpson ,what does frumpy mean?”

“Where did you hear that word Jacob?”

“My Mom says you have given up on life and that is why you dress so frumpy.”

So what can you do about it? Be careful what you say in front of kids, all kids, all the time. Little pitchers have big ears, or should I say mouths? If you see my kids, hopefully they are talking about the neighbors and not me. And when I see your kids, don’t worry; your secrets are safe with me.

Sonia Todd is a freelance writer who lives with her family in Moscow. She's a regular contributor to Tag. She blogs at http://myfirstlaunch.blogspot.com.

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