Trying to realise our ambitions, even if we don?t always meet them, is preferable to not having the courage or motivation to take the risk. So not making any resolutions because we fear that we?ll break them is having a defeatist attitude, as we allow procras...

And then she arrived, strong-willed and sure of her likes and dislikes. We started her out on rice cereal at four months, as recommended by her pediatrician, and had just begun to add fruits and vegetables when the rebellion began. For months she refused solid foods. She just didnt like pureed baby food at all, period. Not sweet potatoes, not peas, not pears or apples. Nothing. Well, okay, she occasionally would eat pureed bananas, but only the jarred kind - never fresh. (Go figure. ) I had even purchased a cool little baby-food-making kit, which I used exactly once.