Welcome to Round five of the Parenting Roundabout podcast for the week of April twenty
fourth. I'm Catherine Heleco and I'm here with Nicole Ritics. Hello, and
Terry Morrow. Hello. Today we're taking a break from talking and complaining and
obsessing, and instead we're shouting out things other people are doing that we think
you'll find as useful or enjoyable as we do. We call this our Roundabout
round Up, and I will go first. I was once again influenced by
the lovely people at Young House Love back to their podcast. It doesn't seem
like it, yeah, not enough. Yeah, So maybe you saw on
Instagram, Terry. One of the things that Sherry was evangelizing for was this.
It's called a candle warmer lamp. So it's this, It's a lamp
with like a cute little glass shade and a little light bulb. But the
point of the light bulb is not so much to cast light, but to
gently warm up a candle that is placed under it. And so this way
you get the scent of your candle, but you don't have an open flame,
and it makes the candle lasts longer. Nice. It just warms it
instead of actually burning it. So I got it for my daughter for her
birthday, and she loves it because I know she you know, she likes
to burn candles. And I worry because yea is you know, like I,
candles can be dangerous, sou and in the irony is that. I
don't know if you guys are remember this, but when she was a freshman
living in the dorms, she got in trouble and she got fined for having
an un lit candle in her dorm room. Remember that. It wasn't even
idea. Yeah, and it's really cute. I mean there's lots of different
styles and stuff that this particular one is just got this cute little glass shade
and like a little wooden base where you put the candle. So I gave
her that for her birthday. And then like a few days later, I
said, huh, I probably should have gotten her a candle also. But
then I was with my son at the time because we were shopping for him,
and he's like, well, I can give her a candle, but
that could be my present because he hadn't gotten her a presentator Yes, So
then he got her a present. Oh. I love this because my daughter
I am always in fear of her burning candles. I hate that. Yeah,
but this is like and there's five dollars keep on on Amazon right now,
there you go, so checker out, get it. M h,
what do you have, Nicole? Oh my goodness, my life has changed.
I have never had one of these before last week. Your life changed
because of your water bottle? Because my life again, every time I order
from Amazon, it rapidly changes. It must be it must be hard to
keep up with. But are life changing boxes? Yeah? You could be
an Amazon I know right. I've never had been of these before, but
I had. I was in a position where I but a label maker and
it's a Bluetooth label maker and it is the cutest, coolest little thing ever.
If you're into making labels, or if you're not, um, it's
still fun to play with. You get an app. You download this app
and then you get to desig i' the label on your phone and it has
all these different fonts and icons and all kinds of like little scribbly lines and
stuff. It's fun. It's the teacher in me coming out. I don't
know, but anyway, and you just like you hit print and then it
just pops up this beautiful, pretty label and you're like wow, and so,
um, I've i've I've been running around the house labeling things. I'm
quite enjoying myself, and um yeah it gets good reviews. Uh so that's
my shout out. It's called Nimbox Labelmaker and it has a ten dollar cupon
today, nice ten dollars off cupon. So I highly recommend if you're in
the market for organizing and labeling. H And how about you, Terry,
what are you going to shout out well on the topic of fostering kids independence
and giving them these skills they will need to one day live a independent life.
My daughter has been wanting very badly to learn how to make a grilled
cheese sandwich. This is her favorite thing. She wants to be able to
make them. When we tried to do it on the stove, but I
was nervous about the gas, you know, and my husband had bought this
cast iron frying pan, which scares me a little bit, so I wasn't
sure how the heat was working with the grilled cheese sandwich, and that do
you have to season it after you make it? And all this stuff.
It was making me anxious. Passing on this skill to my child. So
I was trying to think of things I wanted to get her, like a
little appliance on which she could make grilled cheese sandwiches herself, and this would
be her thing. She could use it, she could make her sandwich,
she could clean it, she could put it off to the side, it
would not be in the way, it would not be using her father's frying
pan, and it would just be an independent experience for her. And she
had a birthday coming up, so I got her this first. I was
looking at like, if you google grilled cheese sandwich makers, they give you
panini presses, and it's like, well, that will grill both sides,
but you don't want to squish it. You want to regular two pieces of
red with cheese. So I finally remembered that my mom used to make me
grilled cheese sandwiches on an electric griddle, and I searched around for them,
and I found something called the little griddle cute from a breastone, and it
is about the size to make. You could probably make two grilled cheese sandwiches
on it if they were cozy, But it's perfect for like an individual person
making themselves a grilled cheese sandwich, and you can you know, it's electric,
and you could you set the temperature and then when you're done, you
can pull the electric part out of it and then wash it in the sink.
So she is able. She went on YouTube and found videos about it
and how to use it and what to do, and she just independently made
herself a grilled cheese sandwich on it. It was glorious. So she now
has this little griddle and she is able to She feels like she knows how
to cook now because she could make the grilled cheese sandwich on her little griddle,
and it was a very successful purchase in experience, and best of all,
I didn't have to do anything other than buy it, So she independent
the research make it. Maybe she could make herself some scrambled eggs not in
the microwave for a change, or she could make bacon if that were a
thing I would let her do. Or you know, there's all sorts of
possibilities for this little girdle. So if you have a young person you would
like to give that sort of experience too. I definitely already remend it was
like thirty five dollars something like that wasn't expensive and it came immediately by Amazon
and many grilligan ventures ahead. Can you buy? Is there a thing where
you could buy like liquid pancake batter that's already made and then just pour it
on your little griddle and make yourself pancakes. I think that's a thing.
Good look amaside, because if you're just going to make a pancake or two,
you don't want to, like me see the whole badge though. I
guess right, but that may be the next adventure is making pancakes. Okay,
Oh you canasible instant parancakement. That's what I'm looking for. It's right
here. I just pulled it up. I mean, I bore yourself a
little couple of pancakes on your little griddle, and you got Brenna right there
for your wants to be independent young person, get them their own tiny appliance.
Nice. And that is it for another week of parenting round about.
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