recreational marijuana is legal in four, and many more jurisdictions are on the verge of legalization. we're going to hear from two mothers who pursue the plant for very different reasons. pam: when you have a child for a life threatening condition, you'll go to any length to keep them alive. sally gaer's daughter margaret has been living with epilepsy her entire life. the 25 year-old has the cognitive abilities of a four year-old and is at high risk for sudden death due to her disease. sally has been pounding down the doors of congress members urging them to improve access to therapeutic hemp oil nationwide. sally gaer: i mean, it's just an education piece. once you hear it's a benign substance, nobody can get high off of it, it's like, oh, then this isn't the scary, evil thing we thought it was. pam: sally says the use of hemp oil, a natural substance, has been helpful to her daughter. advocates say it can reduce seizures for those with epilepsy. while lobbying for better access to hemp oil,

from many members of congress. meanwhile another mom says marijuana makes her a better mother. lea grover says she uses the drug occasionally but never in front of her three kids. lea grover: it's a very effective anti anxiety treatment. i don't do it a lot. i don't do it in large quantities but it really does help me empathize more with a child like sort of mentality. because i have a hard time as a 31-year-old adult remembering how frustrating it can be to be three or five or six years old. pam: in an article appearing in cosmopolitan magazine, grover described this pot induced empathy explaining how her mommy stress is minimized after a few tokes and how her priorities change. lea: as a result there are fewer arguments and i say "yes" to a lot more. you know, "yes, we can bake cookies." i don't care if it makes a mess. "yes, we can go take a walk to the park." i don't care if i was gonna sit down and write a blog post

and then spend the rest of the day like covered in bits of paper. if the result is i'm a better parent for this, then it's a good thing that you're doing it. pam: so far, the fda has not recognized the marijuana plant as medicine. however, studies have shown that two of the active ingredients in marijuana-- thc and cbd-- may decrease pain, inflammation, and muscle control problems, and reduce nausea while increasing appetite. according to the national institute on drug abuse, there are clinical trials being conducted to see if the plant can effectively treat diseases such as alzheimer's, hiv, and multiple sclerosis. jen lennon: so in the midst of trying to be the best mom i can be, i know we're all trying to do that. >> right.

these days with trying to make food choices and reading labels and make sure it doesn't have this dye and corn syrup and saturated fat and, you know, gmos and -- pam: carbohydrates. jen: and it's got to be organic but then does it -- do i have to cook it more? i don't know. bao vang: yes. overwhelmed is a good word. jen: overwhelmed, i want to cry at the grocery store. tiffany haywood; you lost me at all the letters. i was already gone. bao: all those letters. jen: what do you guys do? i feel like every time i take a turn, if i touch something it's probably gonna kill my child. >> so true. pam: it is overwhelming and i think that -- i don't have a good answer. i think i change week to week sometimes. for one week i just think a balanced meal, if i get a vegetable on the table, i'm feeling pretty good about myself. then i think, but oh my gosh, what about all the processed foods i feed them? i should be working more on getting the processed foods out and shopping the exterior of the grocery store. jen: and there are legitimate reasons that you do have to look at those labels, certainly if your child has a life threatening allergy

or something like that. wendy thies: right. i have a daughter who has type 1 diabetes so i have to look at every label, see how carbohydrates are in each label, does it have a lot of sugar? is she gonna go high from this? so i'm used to looking at the labels now because i have to. i have no choice. jen: and they're critically important to you that they are there. wendy: and it's critically important but i try not to make it so crazy in our house. my goal is to serve as much real food as i can. i think that wholesome real food, less processed foods, and try to stay up on the organic grain or the ancient grains and the organic foods and try to incorporate that. jen: i don't even know what that means. pam: it keeps changing! wendy: ancient is better. ( several speaking at once ) tiffany: they don't want ancient at all. jen: i don't know. bao: i grew up, my mom did not read english so she wasn't able to go down the aisle... jen: maybe that was better though. bao: ...and get this and this and this. so we took her intuition

we're fine. all of us are fine, right? so deciding what is best for my kids sometimes is based on what is the cheapest that week at the grocery store. tiffany: and what you know they'll eat too because that can be the deciding factor as far as, like, i'm always "are you full?" you're full. whoo! we did it. onto the next day. jen: i heard somebody say the five ingredient rule. is that practical? is that more than five ingredients? tiffany: i have the little sectioned plates for them so the way i set it up to make my brain work is a fruit, a meat, a starch, and as long as i have the little sections filled in, we're good to go. jen: do you do that every meal? tiffany: yep. well, not breakfast. breakfast they can do a bowl of cereal. >> well that's one. tiffany: a quick meal. i try to do little sections and they're like, mom, we're too big for these. i'm like, mommy needs the plates with the sections. mommy's trying to make everything work so we're just gonna stick with this. jen: well, i guess the try is the important part.

jen: on whatever level you can. pam: exactly. jen: does your weight go up and down? are you always yo-yo dieting? are you an emotional eater? these are signs of disordered eating. disordered eating is a wide range of irregular eating behaviors that don't warrant a specific diagnosis of an eating disorder like bulimia or anorexia nervosa. disordered eating isn't a diagnosis, but a description. someone who is extremely rigid when it comes to food and exercise, feels guilty when they can't maintain their food and exercise habits, is obsessed with their body, food, or exercise to the point of causes distress or who feels they must make up for eating something may be a disordered eater. this is a problem because if could lead to a full blown eating disorder as well as a lot of stress. and you may not even realize what you're doing is unhealthy. support can be found at the national eating disorder association.

pam: it's time to start organizing for tax season and for some, that's easier said than done. but tax experts say the more organized you are all year long, the more prepared you'll be for potential deductions come april or an audit down the road. according to usaa magazine, one of the big mistakes tax filers make is not keeping detailed enough records. a simple credit card statement isn't enough. but keeping actually paper receipts is challenging. that's where receipt tracking apps come in handy. try apps like "one receipt" or "shoeboxed." they will store and categorize your receipts. all you do is take photos of them on your phone and the receipts will be automatically uploaded and stored for safekeeping. according to usaa, another mistake tax filers make is failing to itemize. you can do that even if you don't have a mortgage. if you're keeping track of a large number of charitable donations, another app to check out is turbo tax's

which tracks your contributions as you give. if your college-aged child only works part-time, they may think they don't have to file a return because they don't make enough. but the experts say even if they don't owe, they may get a refund. take a quiz to find out if they need to file at irs.gov. finally the irs volunteer income tax assistance and the tax counseling for the elderly programs offer free tax help for taxpayers who qualify. >> coming up on moms everyday -- rebecca regnier: the gluten free cheat sheet has a great recipe for cauliflower pizza. plus, library story time is about a lot more than books. next... meet our panelists-- pam tauscher... writer, producer, and mother of two. jen lennon... moms everyday host in colorado springs and mother of three. wendy thies... freelance writer and mother of two.

blogger at themrstee and mother of six. bao vang...

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rebecca: all right, one of the challenges if you're going gluten free or low carb is pizza. you want that pizza. so we've got a great new cookbook here, the gluten free cheat sheet. it's gonna let you go gluten free in 30 days with great suggestions. the recipe we've chosen to share with you from this cookbook, from "gluten free cheat sheet" is pizza. it's a cauliflower pizza. so we're's what we're gonna take a look at is the ingredients. the ingredients for the crust are all gonna be basically the cauliflower-based crust. you're gonna need a head of cauliflower, you're gonna need some mozzarella cheese, you're gonna need some shredded -- grated parmesan rather, little salt, little pepper, little garlic, and a little basil. so the thing that you need to do first is to take your head of lettuce, already washed it. it's all set to go and you're gonna put it in your food processor. break it up a little bit though because if you don't, you're gonna have a cauliflower traffic jam in that food processor and you don't want that. so put your cauliflower into your food processor. like i said, you just need one head of cauliflower,

i highly recommend it. we love our food processor here. okay. so it's in there and you're gonna put this on for about a minute. okay. so if you take a look there, can you see what it looks like in maybe my above camera? there it is. this is flaky, fluffy, like rice. we're gonna put this all in a bowl which i've done here and you're gonna microwave this for about 6 to 8 minutes. what we're trying to do is get rid of the water. the water is the death nail for this recipe. if you want this crust to hold together, you need to get rid of water. so after you microwave it, you're gonna put it on a paper towel, okay? what we need to do is just sop out all the water. take a look here. look at how much water is just in that one head of cauliflower. so this is the longest part of the process, and it takes a while. this is what you really want to make sure you don't skimp on is getting rid of as much of the moisture as you can

that consistency of rice. okay, so after that, after you get quite a few of these paper towels through to get it as dry as you can make it. you're gonna put it back in that bowl and gonna mix it with those cheeses that i told you about. so what we have here is a quarter cup of mozzarella, parmesan, we have a little bit of basil, about a teaspoon of that, and we have some salt and pepper. all of that to taste essentially. then mix it up. this is now gonna be your dough. you're gonna have preheated your oven to about 450 so pretty hot, friends. take your pizza tray and you're looking at about a 9-inch crust here. so use your spray to make sure nothing sticks. i have a little cheat sheet. i took a 9-inch round cake pan like this so i kind of have a general idea of how big, and i just gave myself a little guide post there so now i have a little circle that lets me know

so we're gonna put this in the middle and form our pizza crust. so this is what you want to make sure to do. don't make it too thick, don't make it too thin. that's why i gave myself the guide. this takes a few minutes. like that. once you get your crust perfectly in your shape of a crust, you're gonna put it in the oven. okay, this is a ten minute or so situation in the oven for 450 degrees. so now i've got my little crust formed. i had it in there for about ten minutes. you want it to get a little brown. you want this crust to be a little bit crispy. the next thing you're gonna do is top it like a regular pizza, like you would do. no big deal. you take your pizza sauce that goes on top. you've got your mozzarella cheese and then depending on your family, what you're gonna do is i've got a little

they like that in my family. but you could do banana peppers, you can do whatever it is that they like on their pizza to keep it gluten free of course. but that's it. now this goes into the oven for another five minutes or so until your mozzarella cheese is totally melted. i've got one going already so i'm gonna go get that out real quick and show you what it looks like. all right. so it's just gonna be in there long enough to get the cheese melty so five minutes, seven minutes. there we go. and i'll put this back here on top of this area so you can see it from above. look, you got your pizza right here. so for this recipe and many more, all you need to do is go to momseveryday.com. thanks so much to the "gluten free cheat sheet." for moms everyday, i'm rebecca regnier. diane vanek: storytime is this fabulous thing where it's not just sitting and reading books. that's what a lot of people think that you just come in and read books the whole time, but storytime is learning really.

it's got all of those pieces that set children up to be able to be good readers later. you'd think that a story time would just include just sitting around, but we try to make them very active. get the whole body involved, get movement. we do a lot of singing because the songs break -- songs slow down language so then children can hear the songs -- the pieces of language coming through so they're able to break down that language and learn it faster. it's just a great time to be with parents to interact and do some things you might not have time for in your day otherwise. david chait: we come to the library for lots of reasons. number one and probably the main reason is to expose her to songs and books and getting to meet other children. and so for her, it's just a great development experience. for me, i just love it. i'm at work all day and i want to be as part of as much of these experiences as possible so it's nice to have this opportunity after work.

just to kind of gain literacy skills, meet new people, and play with and interact with other children her age. get socialization. diane: if you're not comfortable reading with your child or doing silly things or songs or rhymes, it's a chance to see other parents doing it and going, hey, it's okay. i can do that too. kyle moline: it's a way to meet families that have other young children. a lot of our friends don't have young children yet. diane: i love that i get paid to come in and sing and dance and have fun with babies. and knowing that they're learning at the same time. i just think it's wonderful. i love it when they're crawling around, moving around the room, interacting with each other. somebody's crawling over my legs while somebody else is behind me and somebody else is on my lap.

wendy: so thinking back, in my childhood, i remember mean girls when i was maybe in sixth grade there were mean girls, but i have noticed that with -- when my girls entered kindergarten, there were mean girls already on the playground already in kindergarten. have you noticed the mean girl syndrome starting earlier these days? jen: well, just that snippy cattiness

to somehow make yourself feel better, that's what concerns me and, yes, i think it's happening younger; kindergarten, first, second grade. and my question is why? and maybe what are we doing as moms to create that perhaps? that one-upmanship. i've got to have the next snippy thing on you, or how are we creating this idea where we have to put someone down to feel better? it concerns me. bao: and we probably all agree that they learn it from somewhere. jen: yes. bao: and probably should look at ourselves, right? so what are we doing with our daughters? pam: and what can you do to help make it better, right? i guess, obviously you start with your own reflection and you go from there but it's really -- it's really a tough one. jen: i think part of it is in society now the idea of one-upping and the sarcastic remarks, you know what i mean? and i'm sarcastic with everybody, but i think we have to be careful because sarcasm is something that doesn't read until a particular age.

pam: well, and on the printed page, when it comes to social media, which by the way is anonymous half the time, how you read what i write is not always how i intended it. it's all perception and how you read it. tiffany: and it's about your family dynamics too. because my family, our entire family is sarcastic. like, and we -- but when outsiders come to meet us, they're like, "oh my gosh, you guys are so mean to each other." it's not, it's light hearted for us so now we used to give this disclosure like, okay, listen, we're all a little sarcastic so just be ready. pam: just be ready. tiffany: but when kids are in that situation, you can't give that same disclosure so if they hear me getting a little snippy with my teenager, then my five-year-old goes to school and thinks she can do the same thing, she could hurt someone's feelings and meanwhile she's just trying to emulate me. jen: what are we missing in our parenting that our kids aren't feeling worthy enough in and of themselves without having to put others down?

to other people, it's about jealousy. it's like, you want what they have so becauau you don't have it, you make fun of them or try to put them down. tiffany: there's something missing in you. bao: yes, exactly. it's a reflection of yourself. wendy: teach kindness and lead by example.

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they're gonna be just fine and you're doing better than you think you are. >> for more, visit momsaftermidnight.com. wendy: instead of judging each other, let's support each other. thanks for watching and don't forget you can join in the conversation on facebook, twitter, and momseveryday.com.

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