{"id":522,"date":"2010-05-19T07:24:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T15:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/?p=522"},"modified":"2010-05-19T07:24:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T15:24:36","slug":"a-story-for-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/19\/a-story-for-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Story for Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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No! Not this cute girl.<\/p><\/div>\n

So let\u2019s say there\u2019s this toddler, a sweet little thing with braids held in place with multi-colored flower clips, who walks up to her little friend at preschool, grabs her by the collar and pushes her to the floor. No words are exchanged; there is no fight over a toy, just bam. Smack-down.<\/p>\n

Then let\u2019s say, a day later, the mother and daughter make a cake. The toddler is standing on a chair and while they\u2019re holding the beater, this same toddler slips her arm around her mother\u2019s waist, looks up and says \u201cI wuv you Mommy.\u201d Sweet as pie.<\/p>\n

Yes, this child is two-and-a-half. Yes, she is a force of nature. Her mother knows these things, but she still can\u2019t help but wonder what causes her sweet child with the braids and flowered clips and all to decide she\u2019s a WWF wrestling super-star. Was she tired? Coming down with the flu? Had she eaten something that didn\u2019t agree with her, had she had too much sugar, too little sugar, too much exercise or not enough exercise, too much time with other toddlers, not enough, too many hunks of cheese, raisins, granola bars or things that stick in her teeth or don\u2019t, she must need more things that stick in her teeth or maybe it\u2019s that new toothpaste with the fluoride or the fact that she isn\u2019t flossing or or or\u2026 Picture this mother holding out the ends of her hair going \u201cACK!\u201d like Andy Samberg playing Cathy from the comic strip on Saturday Night Live. Sweat drops, sweat drops, sweat drops.<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s just say this mother is always looking for causes, triggers, patterns, consequences. She knows sometimes she takes the speculation too far, but she also knows what she puts in her child does affect her child\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n

The big health news<\/a> this week is about a study published in the Journal of Pediatrics that shows kids with above average amounts of organophosphate pesticides in their urine are twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD.<\/p>\n

“Detectable levels of pesticides are present in a large number of fruits and vegetables sold in the U.S., according to a 2008 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited in the study. In a representative sample of produce tested by the agency, 28 percent of frozen blueberries, 20 percent of celery, and 25 percent of strawberries contained traces of one type of organophosphate. Other types of organophosphates were found in 27 percent of green beans, 17 percent of peaches, and 8 percent of broccoli.”<\/p>\n

Another reason to buy organic produce. All this stuff that goes into this mother\u2019s body and this child\u2019s body\u2026 It does matter.<\/p>\n

Turns out this particular toddler had a virus and two canker sores in the back of her mouth. As far as her mother can tell, her WWF-style take down had nothing to do with organophosphates and everything to do with being miserable. But this mother can never be too sure.<\/p>\n

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I can't keep my lips off those cheeks!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So let\u2019s say there\u2019s this toddler, a sweet little thing with braids held in place with multi-colored flower clips, who walks up to her little friend at preschool, grabs her by the collar and pushes her to the floor. No words are exchanged; there is no fight over a toy, just bam. Smack-down. Then let\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mom","category-food","category-hmn-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}