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As I write this, our two youngest boys are glued to the TV watching the Food Network's popular show, "The Five Minute Fix."  While they're probably not ambitious enough to tackle the Thanksgiving feast featured in tonight's episode, they have mastered a lot of the basics a guy needs to survive bachelorhood.  If it comes in a can or in a box with instructions written in plain English, they can have it on the table in no time.   But I'm talking about real food.  Most of our guys can do eggs -- more than just scrambled.  This afternoon, Tim, our youngest, offered to make a grilled cheese sandwich for me.   The day before, his older brother, Ben made cinnamon apples for the whole family.  It's not a well kept secret -- kids love to cook.

Time4Learning
http://www.Time4Learning.com
$19.95 for first student, $14.95 each additional student.

If you’re one who assumes that computer-based learning is somehow easier than other forms, Time4Learning will test your assumptions.  Seriously, while it is not rocket science, it is not an “intuitive” or user-friendly website; however, once you get on board and learn its quirks, Time4Learning is quite possibly the most fun you can have with this kind of program and still call it learning.

Ouch…that hurt!

When you first become a member of Time4Learning, you have to pay careful attention to the details to make sure you actually get signed up, get logged in and if neither of those happens, you understand why.  First, you’ll open a master account as the parent.  Then you set up sub-accounts for each child.  This is where things get weird:  The Time4Learning system asks what grade your child is in.  Below that is a series of questions to determine whether your child knows his colors, ABCs and numbers 1 through 0 and other primary information.  I was puzzled that Time4Learning would need to know this for a seventh grader.  Had I read the fine print above the questions, I would have seen that that section is only for lower grades.  The setup process would be much easier if the form changed based on the grade level of the student.

Jack Bishop'scommitment to simplicity and his talent for fine-tuning recipes so they work perfectly in real time make his books favorites among vegetarians and occasional vegetarians alike. As a busy husband, father of two young children, cookbook author, magazine and book editor, and head cook for his family, Bishop demands a lot from the meals that make it into his repertoire. They must be convenient dishes that he can prepare at the end of a day in an hour or less with readily available ingredients. They must satisfy his and his wife's discriminating palates.