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Who Are We and What Are We Doing?
For the past several months, I've been actively investigating the UX jobs market as part of an effort we announced back in January to explore the employment issues endemic to our field. Through in-person research in several major cities and by working with Didus, a UX-focused recruiting and career development agency, I've seen the opportunities and problems up close.
In part, this research has exposed the immaturity of the UX field. For all the growth, interest, and importance surrounding user-centered ideas and practices, our professional milieu is still a disorderly jungle. The fundamental issue is that we're growing outward faster than we're firming things up inward, and new concepts enter the conversation before old ones have been fully established, methodized, and universalized.
This problem is in evidence wherever you look in the field. One of the vexations of editing for UX Magazine is trying to keep up with what the latest trends are, and feeling like we've only fractionally set the knowledge base on a subject before a new one captures the spotlight.
For example, what about persuasive design? Is that a real concept, or was it just a passing fancy on our way to lean UX or whatever the most current thing is? Have we, as a field, entirely grokked the concepts of information architecture or of usability, let alone newcomers such as decision architecture and content strategy? It's hard to find anything except research methodologies that have been fully and thoroughly established, let alone methodized and universalized.
This failure to firm things up seems to be wreaking havoc in the UX employment market. What job titles and functions have we, as a field, fully established, methodized, and universalized so that everyone understands them? I assert the answer is none.
Lost in Translation
One of the primary ways Didus provides value to clients and to jobseekers is in providing translation services, ensuring everyone's talking about the same things in the same ways. In our field, no conversation ever seems start with both parties speaking the same language, and everyone wastes valuable time groping awkwardly for a shared understanding.
"There's really no consistency in how people look for these positions," says Minoru Uchida, Associate Interaction Design Director at IA Collaborative in Chicago. Uchida's design career started with print design for magazines, which is just the sort of experience that has relevance to UX work but is hard to capture in a title or properly represent on a resume, especially for someone whose main billing is as an interaction designer.
"It gave me training in terms of paying attention to minute details. I had to pore over every pixel of the magazine from corner to corner and make sure everything was visually tight," he explains. "I see things as objects with meaning."
Companies often struggle to find, for example, a "lead interaction designer" because the right people for that job seldom describe themselves using the same terms. It's also unlikely that they've had similar titles in previous jobs. I've seen senior interaction designers called everything from "UI Designer" to "Creative Director" to "Information Architect" to "Usability Specialist" to "User Advocate" to "Chief Experience Officer."
Uchida's job has shades of variation to match. "A lot of times I've played a role that is similar to an art director," he says. "In the middle of the design process I'll ask why certain text is so tight or why there's not more white space."
There are authentic differences in the ways people describe what they do. Two parties are often talking about exactly the same thing using entirely different terms. On both sides of the hiring equation, this makes it difficult to communicate who you are and what you're looking for.
"I don't think we'll ever get an umbrella big enough for everyone to fit in comfortably," Uchida adds. "At the same time, I do recognize some patterns emerging for how UX is being leveraged within an organization, depending on various factors, like the size of company, whether they're in-house or agency, marketing versus product development, etc."
Easier for the Initiated
Is a self-described information architect at Amazon in Seattle the same person as an information architect at a marketing and interactive agency in Omaha? Certainly not. Is either lying, exaggerating, or being untruthful in portraying himself or herself as an IA? No. But if you're an executive or HR person who's unfamiliar with UX, how can you know the difference?
"The most important thing for me isn't a title or an argument about a title," says Scott Stroud, a consultant for NPR and the former Director of User Experience at LivingSocial. "It's all about the collaboration and understanding, which requires a lot of humility and brilliance."
Erik von Stackelberg, Creative Director at MyPlanet, echos that notion: "The only thing that is trite in my mind is a hasty generalization or something sweeping. I would rather see someone who is very specific or breaks down their title and lets me know what they like to do."
The trouble here is that experience with UX is required to acquire experience with UX. HR departments find it nearly impossible to do a good job of servicing the staffing needs of their UX teams. Companies like Living Social and MyPlanet are already sophisticated with UX and have an easier time with hiring, but navigating the translation issue is a huge problem for companies that are trying to adopt, or improve, UX competencies.
Who Are You?
So far, I've mostly focused on job titles, but it should be noted that the problem with inconsistent terminology extends far deeper and befuddles job seekers, not just employers. In my time at Didus, I've looked through countless resumes where people, lacking a vocabulary for describing their actual skills, describe themselves in terms of the deliverables they produce.
Knowing that someone created "annotated wireframes, user flows, personas, interaction designs, and graphic comps" in his capacity as a "UX Architect" tells me very little about what specific UX role he'd be a good fit for—what tier of seniority, what specialty/subset of UX, what type of business setting, what sort of product or project, etc.
For companies, the problem also goes deeper than translation: they have no clear means of figuring out what sort of person they're looking for, let alone what that person might call himself or herself. You can't know you're looking for an IA if you can't know what information architecture is.
Let's Do Something
The problems I've pointed out in this article may not trouble people who have deep experience in UX—which is to say, nearly everyone reading this article. I expect to get some scathing comments, especially from people who hate discussions that seem to be about "naming the thing." But we, the UX-savvy, need to remember that the next frontier for UX isn't in digital agencies or technology companies, it's in companies that are newly adopting UX as a competency.
It's also in universities that are trying to understand how to adopt user-centered practices into their design and technical curricula. We're making all of that even more difficult to attain when we keep the subsets and specialties of our field obscure.
Of course, naming the thing (or rather naming the hundreds of things) won't be easy. I'm reminded of something Uchida told us—a tactic he has for describing what he does to someone unfamiliar with user experience, who might be expressing frustration over user interface with a mobile device:
"Don't you wish this was easier?" he likes to ask. "Well, that's what I do."
That's what we want to do, too: make this easier. Next week we're going to launch a campaign that we hope will do just that.
So stay tuned, and be ready to tell us who you are.
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Am I the only one who thinks greater specialization might destroy us?
My UX career proper began only a few years ago and I still struggle with the "cocktail party definition" of what it is I do. It usually involves a lot of hand-talking. I have a hard time using my official title, "Experience Architect" without "scare-quotes," knowing that saying Information Architect and UX Designer will probably not get quite as many blank stares. Maybe...
All of this is to say that I understand the value of greater definition. Definition leads to understanding, understanding leads to advocacy, and advocacy, eventually, leads to greater respect and power. A hundred other fields have been and are currently going through a similar process of delineating their offering in the workplace, and they are doing it for a good reason.
The feeling I encounter in most places (this article included) tends to prefer greater specialization between UX design and the communities of related professions. A Senior EA at a major agency once told me that UX Design Unicorns tend to be great IAs and UXDs but terrible FEDs and Art Directors. I tend to agree with him, for the most part. Even amongst UXDs, there tends to be a split between he people who specialize in user research and the ones who focus on the design. Google, for example, makes this distinction in their hiring policies.
My hunch, though, is that this will not always be the case. I think that greater specialization and definition will make us calcify, become moribund, and eventually become extinct. I think this feeling comes from a few lines of reasoning:
1. Most UX designers I know (myself included) got into UX because they didn't fit into traditional design roles, or were dissatisfied with them. UXD is multidisciplinary to its core and greater definition might shut some of those people out. Or they will migrate to whatever the newest, slightly vague field might be. This would impoverish our field.
2. As I understand it, UXD functions as a link between development, traditional (e.g. print) design, and (increasingly) product strategy. As the barriers to technical proficiency decrease and new generations of kids come up breathing technology from infancy, the connections between development and, say, strategy might not be necessary much longer. There might be a day when people simply "get" tech. Most new design grads will probably resemble what we might think of as a "Design Unicorn" today.
3. What gets me really excited about UXD is a future where, because of their need to understand every specialty within the product lifecycle, UX people end up in a role similar to the directors of films. They know the ins and outs of all the specialists, but they're goal is to keep them all in concert in order to ensure a good experience. We would become stewards of the vision. The more reductive we become in the definition of our field, the less likely that situation will be.
4. This may sound like a cliche, but the future of the web isn't the web. It's the world. In my practice I'm constantly forced to think holistically across both meat space and digital worlds. I consider this a core capability of our field. So why would we want to tie ourselves to a paradigm based on viewing things on screens?
What I'm trying to say is that definition comes with trade-offs that no one seems to be talking about.
Happy to know your thoughts.
The definitions as described by Anonymous make a lot of sense, but as mentioned my Wayne UX researcher is a separate role.
However, before we can define roles we need to a have a clear definition of what User Experience Design is and does. We need to have a consensus of where User Experience ends and where Service, Customer Experience and industrial design begin.
To understand how we can answer these questions we could start by looking at other more mature professions to see how they have meet these challenge. Industrial design would be a good starting point as it shares many similarities with the profession UX has become. Architecture might be an even better model with Riba sitting in the middle as single source of truth and also heavily influencing the education of future Architects.
Hey Jonathon –
Great article. I think you know where I stand on these themes.
I'm all for defining skills, both hard and soft, across the diverse spectrum that encompasses UX and I favor a very broad view from Brief all the way to Deployment. I think the industry associations (UXPA, IxDA, IA Institute, etc.) should take this on as I've been saying for a few years now, and they should only do it for their little corners of the spectrum.
In other cases where professionals congregate I would assume it's the associations who tend to police things, find consensus, and guide their members (e.g. AMA? IEEE? AICHE?). Isn't it? :) I'm assuming a lot there. In the end though I think there will be some turf wars since in my opinion only one over all association is needed and the others should become SIGs. The internal skills like IxD and Usability are specialties and when those associations pretend to speak around, develop training, and hold conferences on topics 6 steps away from their core competencies I feel very strongly that is dilutes their authority, confuses business, and leads academia(don't even get me started) in the wrong direction.
I'm not in favor of articulating roles. I think those boundaries will never be universally adopted. I'm hoping for a defining of UX domain scope, elemental skills, and general deliverables that are typical in in a Natural UX process and around which rational discussions can be had. Roles will always be fluid and can incorporate the basics. By waterfall I mean a simple digital design approach--one an individual practitioner may employ-- that is agnostic when it comes to an Agile, Lean of other advanced interpretation. Unencumbered. Let's get the basics down, really down, and get them ingrained in everybody's minds and only then begin to let these "fads" (I know, I know :) overlay and extend the elemental and structural concepts. Sort of the way Software Engineering has grown over the last 60 years. We all know what Configuration Management is in general, it's not really a debate what Algorithm Analysis is, and we all generally know what a Functional Spec document might look like. If I come across one more case(!) where a team is still undecided or losses a few weeks of momentum because of a misunderstanding what a "user story" ( can you name 10 interpretations? I think I can ) is I'm going to scream. All it would take is for one of the associations with some clout and guts to take a stand. Refining it over time is fine. The status quo is not.
Well, at least that's my 2c :)
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Richard A. Price
Experience Architect // Richard Price Design
To Anonymous, I totally agree with your comments. We are only doing a disservice to ourselves, our companies and our clients by not only defining our titles, but also what we do and how we deliver value. I really like your definitions, although I may change usability tester to usability professional, engineer or researcher. UX Researcher conducts research on users using such methods as ethnography, interviews and yes, usability testing. They would also develop personas, design insights from the data and, in many cases, develop design ideas and concepts (sketches, wireframes).
For VP of UX, see my article published here, Why you should hire a VP of UX. http://uxmag.com/articles/why-you-should-hire-a-vp-of-user-experience-design
I would argue that many companies of a reasonable size should hire a VP of UX to develop a UX strategy, evangelize and organizationally define how designers will execute within the context of their companies.
Here are my hard and fast thoughts on this. In short, we need to DISTINGUISH the roles in our field, so that all of the people, in every company around the world, can learn about how we work and how each of our various pieces and parts interact to deliver great products to their customers. We need to intentionally delineate responsibility/skill/talent by title. This needs to be a strategic messaging goal for our profession. Our industry needs to lock down titles and responsibilities, then spread the word.
1a. User Experience (UX) / Interaction Designer (IXD)
You are an individual contributor responsible for sitemaps, flows, scenarios/use cases, persona's sitemaps and wireframes. The skills & talents needed to do this well don't vary. You are a thought leader, you absorb zillions of data points, remember them and boil them down to their essence (a wireframe), you dissect and counteract poor logic with ease, you split hairs where most people don't even know there are hairs to be split...but you bring those people along on your thought journey, so they become UX robots to be unleashed upon your company as they regurgitate most of what you shared with them. These people don't focus on visual design, branding, colors, fonts etc in anyway (even though they may also be pretty good at those aspects).
1b. Information Architect
This is someone who focuses on structures, such as site hierarchies etc. Many companies are not large or specialized enough to hire this person and/or have enough work for them, so these responsibilities are realistically rolling back up into 1a above.
2. UX Director
Although many companies hand out this title for people who are still doing the work, I slightly disagree, the title should be reserved for someone who is engaged with the team and helping them solve their problems and enforcing amazing design...but this role will have its largest impact by spending more of time evangelizing UX and "furthering the cause" in every IT/HR/Mktg/Exec meeting they can get themselves invited to. Without a UX presence, those meetings will fly by with the most brash (non-customer/user focused) decisions being made. People don't know they need UX, until they experience the process and see the results.
3. VP of UX
This is a role which should exist if you have a large enough company to justify so many UX staff that you have directors and managers above all of those people - reporting upward.
4. CXO: Chief Experience Officer: This is a future role and will appear as more seasoned UX people bubble up (and more contemporary business approaches) convince/enable us to have a seat at the table in every major executive meeting in every major corporation in the world. Without UX, companies of the future will under serve their customers and prolong the lives of their competition.
5. Visual Designer : This is someone who should be riding along with UX and collaborating with UX. Their skill is creating masterful visual design comps (in full color, on-brand, with the right fonts etc) and properly capturing all of the prioritization, labeling and logic behind the wireframes which have been created + they contribute their thoughts to make it even better. Some people call these roles UI Designers, but I do not think this is an intelligent move on our part, because of the next title I use below (#6). I think we need to intentionally label it without any similar naming components.
6. UI Developer / Front-End Developer : This is someone who knows CSS, HTML, HTML5, Jquery, Javaascript, Bootstrap etc inside and out. They take a pixel perfect .PSD (Photoshop Document) and replicate it to perfection...then add in the latest and greatest functionality...then work with a back-end dev (or many) to connect to databases and display the data as intended.
7. Usability Tester : You are focused on taking concepts, baked designs, visual designs & developed pages to the right users and asking the right questions...so this data can then inform the rest of the team and enable them to make better design decisions with well informed design rationale behind them. The title I am also seeing here is UX Researcher. I am not a student of this niche, so I would need some input here, but part of me wonders if these titles are the same or are there some hairs to be split related to whether the person is testing a product or researching concepts for future products.?. Insights appreciated.
My rant: There is no such thing as a UX Developer and this name confuses everything above for people who are not in our profession...unless you are a one man shop on an island somewhere whereby you are working off of "elance" types of websites and therefore architecting, ux designing, visual designing and ui developing...in which case, you might as well be UX-CEO as well.
Thanks/Please advise,
The discussion that takes place around this always reminds me of what the field of web design went through a few years ago. The field went through a period where it was 'hot' to be a web designer, and everybody with a copy of Dreamweaver started calling him or herself a designer. After a while (and with the help of the dot com crash), the people who had no training or aptitude got weeded out. I don't think it is a bad thing entirely for the field to be so wide open to all kinds of talent. If it weren't for that opening, I certainly would not be doing what I'm doing today.
I think a similar 'weeding out' will happen with User Experience. I'm not sure that this is something that we, as UX professionals, have much control over. When you have a hot job market, both recruiters and potential employees are motivated to tag people with a UX title, warranted or not. The UX developer job title is my favorite in this department, and going back to my earlier analogy, always reminds me of back when job descriptions asked for visual designers who could also code Java.
I think what needs to happen long-term is for the user experience design function to become more clearly differentiated from the visual design and dev functions. Not to say that these competencies can't overlap in any given person, but I think there has to be an understanding that when somebody is creating a prototype for usability testing, they are engaged in a UX function, but when they are coding the front end of a web app, they are not.


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The Advanced Style Ladies are taking the fashion world by storm. First it was Iris Apfel on the cover of Dazed and Confused. Now, Beatrix Ost is featured in an incredible spread in November's Harper's Bazaar, shot by Terry Richardson. I can't wait to see who will be next...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Beatrix Ost in Harper's Bazaar
The Advanced Style Ladies are taking the fashion world by storm. First it was Iris Apfel on the cover of Dazed and Confused. Now, Beatrix Ost is featured in an incredible spread in November's Harper's Bazaar, shot by Terry Richardson. I can't wait to see who will be next...
23 comments:
- Sacramento Amate said...
Fabulous news, Ari. She is fantastic, but it is all thanks to you.
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- Lauren@Styleseer said...
So fabulous to see these stylish ladies getting the attention they deserve!
- October 23, 2012 at 10:14 AM
- Bella Q said...
This is so awesome. Not just for the gorgeous vivacious Advanced Style ladies, but for women in general. Love the new variety of ages in the fashion world. You really did start something.
- October 23, 2012 at 10:33 AM
- Audrey said...
I love her philosophy and style. I try to live like that every day.
- October 23, 2012 at 10:33 AM
- Karena said...
Stunning! Fabulous women; must pic up the issue!
2012 Artists Series - October 23, 2012 at 10:42 AM
- Lois said...
So elegant and beautiful.
- October 23, 2012 at 11:47 AM
- Carey said...
This is amazing! Truly fab.
- October 23, 2012 at 11:47 AM
- Still Blonde after all these YEARS said...
What a beauty, those cheekbones! Thank you for the video as well. I love the "SEE" the glass half full. Let the negative thought go by--wonderful philosophy.
Focus on the beautiful! Ahh. What a great sound bite! - October 23, 2012 at 2:42 PM
- Kathleen Richardson said...
Gorgeous. Hope I look that good in 20 years.
- October 23, 2012 at 3:18 PM
- Sarah said...
Thank you for this lovely post! Not only do the photos look incredible, but I really needed to hear those positive words from Beatrix. Things seems less daunting now.
x - October 23, 2012 at 4:27 PM
- Jualferx said...
woooow, woooow, wooooow, estoy saltando en un pie, es sensacional su look. Saludos desde www.jualferx.blogspot.com
- October 23, 2012 at 4:50 PM
- Christian//fashiongentrix.com said...
They are amazing !!!!
Have you seen my street style from Paris?
See one here :)
x - October 23, 2012 at 5:53 PM
- Forest City Fashionista said...
These are such wonderful photos of Beatrix. She is most definitely one of my hair inspirations!
- October 23, 2012 at 7:22 PM
- Melanie said...
Fantastic fashion spread. I looove those trousers on Ms. Ost. She really WEARS them.
- October 23, 2012 at 7:26 PM
- Leif Sodergren said...
Ari, you deserve the credit for pursing and sticking to this project. You saw the beauty, talent, originality and fantastic spirit in women of a generation that had been neglected . And you made others see them too. So well done. If you measure success on how you have made other people happy -- then you have done very well!
And thanks awesome ladies, you are simply wonderful, and an inspiration for everyone. And a joy to behold! - October 23, 2012 at 7:47 PM
- Carol Markel said...
Beatrix is a natural model. Dramatic, beautiful and vivacious.
- October 23, 2012 at 8:15 PM
- Style Higher™ said...
Gorgeous lady with valuable wisdom to share. :-)
- October 24, 2012 at 3:21 PM
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- vain319 said...
love this idea,they just need to come out with a magazine on advance styles.I would totally buy it! This lady has swag!
- October 25, 2012 at 6:02 PM
- Palomasea said...
I so agree with you, beautiful Beatrix! Love her....
Brava...and Bravo to you Ari!!!
xoxo - October 27, 2012 at 11:22 PM
- Amber of Butane Anvil said...
Thank you for featuring Beatrix Ost - I am such an admirer of her wisdom and grace, which even amplify her beauty and style. Fantastic!
- October 28, 2012 at 4:15 PM
- Jassy World said...
So beautiful fab. I love this lady ..These are such wonderful picture
- October 29, 2012 at 2:53 AM
- Rebecca Cares said...
A whole new spin on blue-haired old lady!
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As budget cuts loom, is government shutdown next?
Thursday - 2/28/2013, 2:56am EST
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- With big, automatic budget cuts about to kick in, House Republicans are turning to mapping strategy for the next showdown just a month away, when a government shutdown instead of just a slowdown will be at stake.
Both topics are sure to come up at the White House meeting Friday between President Barack Obama and top congressional leaders, including Republican House Speaker John Boehner. A breakthrough on replacing or easing the imminent across-the-board spending cuts still seems unlikely at the first face-to-face discussion between Obama and Republican leaders this year.
To no one's surprise, even as a dysfunctional Washington appears incapable of averting a crisis over economy-rattling spending cuts, it may be lurching toward another over a possible shutdown.
Republicans are planning for a vote next week on a bill to fund the day-to-day operations of the government through the Sept. 30 end of the 2013 fiscal year -- while keeping in place the new $85 billion in cuts of 5 percent to domestic agencies and 8 percent to the military.
The need to keep the government's doors open and lights on -- or else suffer the first government shutdown since 1996 -- requires the GOP-dominated House and the Democratic-controlled Senate to agree. Right now they hardly see eye to eye.
The House GOP plan, unveiled to the rank and file on Wednesday, would award the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs with their line-by-line budgets, for a more-targeted rather than indiscriminate batch of military cuts, but would deny domestic agencies the same treatment. And that has whipped up opposition from veteran Democratic senators on the Appropriations Committee. Domestic agencies would see their budgets frozen almost exactly as they are, which would mean no money for new initiatives such as cybersecurity or for routine increases for programs such as low-income housing.
"We're not going to do that," said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. "Of course not."
Any agreement needs to pass through a gantlet of House tea party conservatives intent on preserving the across-the-board cuts and Senate Democrats pressing for action on domestic initiatives, even at the risk of creating a foot-tall catchall spending bill.
There's also this: GOP leaders have calculated that the automatic cuts arriving on Friday need to be in place in order for them to be able to muster support from conservatives for the catchall spending bill to keep the government running. That's because many staunch conservatives want to preserve the cuts even as defense hawks and others fret about the harm that might do to the military and the economy. If the automatic cuts are dealt with before the government-wide funding bill gets a vote, there could be a conservative revolt.
"The overall sequester levels must hold," said Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif.
Little to no progress has been made so far between House and Senate leaders and the White House, and given the hard feelings engulfing Washington, there's no guarantee that this problem can be solved, even though the stakes -- a shutdown of non-essential government programs after March 27 -- carry more risk than the across-the-board cuts looming on Friday.
The funding plan for the rest of the fiscal year will be a main topic at the White House meeting on Friday, the March 1 deadline day for averting the across-the-board cuts.
Obama, speaking to a group of business executives Wednesday night, said the cuts would be a "tumble downward" for the economy, though he acknowledged it could takes weeks before many Americans feel the full impact of the budget shrinking.
The warring sides in Washington have spent this week assigning blame rather than seeking a bipartisan way out. In a glimpse of the state of debate on Wednesday, Republicans and the White House bickered over whether the cuts would be under way by the time Friday's meeting started. A spokesman for Boehner said they would be in place; the White House countered that Obama would in fact have until midnight Friday to set them in motion.
The cumbersome annual ritual of passing annual agency spending bills collapsed entirely last year -- not a single one of the 12 annual appropriations bills for the budget year that began back in October has passed Congress -- and Congress has to act by March 27 to prevent a partial shutdown of the government.
By freezing budgets for domestic agencies, the Republican plan would deny an increase for a big cybersecurity initiative, additional money to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal and money to build new Coast Guard cutters. GOP initiatives such as more money for the Small Business Administration or fossil fuels research would be hurt as well, but there's little appetite for the alternative, which is to stack more than $1 trillion worth of spending bills together for a single up-or-down vote.


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Keeps the extra coffee warm til the next cup. I like this beautiful pot:
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What I need to know about My Child's Bedwetting
On this page:
- Why does my child wet the bed?
- How can I help my child stay dry?
- Should I take my child to see a doctor?
- What treatments can help my child stay dry?
- Eating, Diet, and Nutrition
- Points to Remember
- Hope through Research
- Pronunciation Guide
- For More Information
- Acknowledgments
Why does my child wet the bed?
In most cases, the exact cause of bedwetting is not known. But many possible causes exist. Your child's bladder* might be too small. Or the amount of urine produced overnight is too much for your child's bladder to hold. As a result, your child's bladder fills up before the night is over. Some children sleep so deeply that they don't wake up when they need to urinate. Others simply take longer to learn bladder control. Many children wet the bed until they are 5 years old or even older.
Bedwetting often runs in families. If both parents wet the bed as children, their child is likely to have the same problem. If only one parent has a history of bedwetting, the child has about a 30 percent chance of having the problem. Some children wet the bed even if neither parent ever did.
A child who has been dry for several months or even years may start wetting the bed. The cause might be emotional stress, such as the loss of a loved one, problems at school, a new sibling, or even toilet training too early.
Bedwetting is not your child's fault. Children rarely wet the bed on purpose. You can help your child by learning about the different causes and treatments for bedwetting.
*See the Pronunciation Guide for tips on how to say the underlined words.
How can I help my child stay dry?
You can take several steps to help your child stay dry. Make sure your child drinks enough fluids throughout the day. A child who doesn't drink enough during the day may drink a lot before bedtime, causing wetness at night. Talk with your child's doctor about how much your child should drink each day. Have your child avoid drinks with caffeine, such as colas or tea. Drinks with caffeine speed up urine production. Give your child one drink with dinner and explain that it will be the last drink before going to bed. Make sure your child uses the bathroom just before bed. Many children will still wet the bed, but these steps may be helpful.
Children may feel bad about wetting the bed, so letting them know they are not to blame is important. Bedwetting is not a behavior problem. Scolding and punishment will not help your child stay dry. Be supportive. Praise your child for dry nights.
Most children grow out of bedwetting. Some children just take more time than others.
Should I take my child to see a doctor?
Children younger than 5 do not need to see a doctor for bedwetting. Many children do not stay dry at night until age 7. A single episode of bedwetting should not cause alarm, even in an older child.
If your child is 7 years old or older and wets the bed more than two or three times in a week, a doctor may be able to help. If both day and night wetting occur after age 5, your child should see a doctor before age 7.
The doctor will ask questions about your child's health and the wetting problem, conduct a physical exam, and ask your child for a urine sample. The doctor will look for signs of health problems that can cause bedwetting, including the following:
- fever and bacteria in the urine—signs of infection
- weight loss—a sign of diabetes, a condition where blood glucose, also called blood sugar, is too high
- high blood pressure—a sign of a kidney problem
- poor reflexes in the legs or feet—a sign of a nerve problem
- a hard mass that can be felt in the stomach area—a sign of constipation, a condition in which a child has fewer than two bowel movements a week and stools can be hard, dry, small, and difficult to pass
- swollen tonsils, mouth breathing, or poor growth—a sign of sleep apnea, a condition in which breathing stops during sleep
The doctor may also ask your child about changes at home or school that may be causing emotional stress. In most cases, the doctor doesn't find any specific cause for bedwetting. If a health problem is found, the doctor will talk to you about treatment options. If your child is stressed, the doctor may be able to give your child strategies for dealing with the stress.
What treatments can help my child stay dry?
Treatments for bedwetting include bladder training, moisture alarms, and medicines. Talk with the doctor and your child about which ones to try.
Bladder Training
Bladder training can help your child hold urine longer. Write down what times your child urinates during the day. Then figure out the amount of time between trips to the bathroom. After a day or two, have your child try to wait an extra 15 minutes before using the bathroom. For example, if a trip to the bathroom usually occurs at 3:30 p.m., have your child wait until 3:45 p.m. Slowly make the wait time longer and longer. This method helps stretch your child's bladder to hold more urine. Be patient. Bladder training can take several weeks or even months.
Moisture Alarm
A small moisture alarm can be put in your child's bed or underwear. With the first drops of urine, the alarm triggers a bell or buzzer that wakes your child. Your child can then stop the flow of urine, get up, and use the bathroom. Waking also teaches your child how a full bladder feels.
Medicine is available to treat bedwetting. The medicine used most often slows down how fast the body makes urine. Though medicine for bedwetting works well, wetting often returns when the child stops taking the medicine. If this occurs, keeping the child on medicine for a longer time may help.
Eating, Diet, and Nutrition
Eating, diet, and nutrition have not been shown to play a role in causing or preventing bedwetting in children, though making sure your child drinks enough throughout the day and avoiding caffeine intake may be helpful.
Points to Remember
- In most cases, the exact cause of bedwetting is not known. But many possible causes exist.
- Many children wet the bed until they are 5 years old or even older.
- Scolding and punishment will not help your child stay dry.
- Children younger than 5 do not need to see a doctor for bedwetting. If your child is 7 years old or older and wets the bed more than two or three times in a week, a doctor may be able to help. If both day and night wetting occur after age 5, your child should see a doctor before age 7.
- Treatments for bedwetting include bladder training, moisture alarms, and medicine. Talk with the doctor and your child about which ones to try.
- Most children grow out of bedwetting naturally.
Hope through Research
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) conducts and supports research to help people with urologic diseases, including children. The NIDDK's Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases maintains the Pediatric Urology Program, which supports research into the early development of the urinary tract.
Participants in clinical trials can play a more active role in their own health care, gain access to new research treatments before they are widely available, and help others by contributing to medical research. For information about current studies, visit www.ClinicalTrials.gov.
Pronunciation Guide
bladder (BLAD-ur)
caffeine (KAF-een)
constipation (KON-stih-PAY-shuhn)
diabetes (DY-uh-BEE-teez)
sleep apnea (sleep) (AP-nee-uh))
urinate (YOOR-ih-nayt)
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Fax: 843–377–0905
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Phone: 1–800–622–9010 or 212–889–2210
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Publications produced by the Clearinghouse are carefully reviewed by both NIDDK scientists and outside experts. The National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse would like to thank the following individuals for assisting with the scientific and editorial review of the original version of this publication:
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San Francisco Photo diary Pt. 2
I hope you guys have liked these travel pictures, I hope they can bring you a little insight into how beautiful San Francisco is - I never knew before and I would recommend it to anybody!
I'd love to go back =]
Hope you're all well!
Sammi x
81 comments:
- The Dark Side of the Loom said...
I really want to go to San Fran now !! :)
http://darksideoftheloom.blogspot.com - 13 February 2013 at 12:47
- Heather said...
San Fran looks so beautiful and you look like you had so much fun - loved all of your vlogs!
highsocietyfashion.blogspot.co.uk - 13 February 2013 at 12:51
- aynur A said...
Lovely photos, so jealous really want to go to San Fran!
http://filthyfashi0n.blogspot.co.uk/ - 13 February 2013 at 12:52
- Aisha Hussain said...
San Fran looks amazing!
ashneexo.blogspot.co.uk - 13 February 2013 at 13:01
- Léa said...
your pictures are just amazing like san franciso! xx
- 13 February 2013 at 13:01
- ladyvagia said...
i love the food photos much more than the view, haha
<33 - 13 February 2013 at 13:01
- Tara said...
looks absolutely incredible, i hope you get a chance to visit again
eye---candii.blogspot.co.uk - 13 February 2013 at 13:09
- Zoe said...
Looks lovely!
I love your photo's :)
http://redlipsanddenimjackets.blogspot.co.uk - 13 February 2013 at 13:12
- prowsed Sarah said...
Looks insanely stunning, So glad you got to go on a trip there, hope you get to visit again, I really need to go to america! You always look so amazing in your beanies and sunglasses as well as the food and drink looking very nice indeed!
http://prowsed.blogspot.co.uk/ - 13 February 2013 at 13:17
- Smellie said...
views looked stunning, so jealous, glad you had fun :) x
just starting my own blog, http://elliemckee.blogspot.co.uk/
can everyone have a cheeky gander? :) - 13 February 2013 at 13:23
- ThriftThick said...
You made SF look like so much fun in all of your blogs!! If I ever go to the opposite side of the states (I live on the East coast) I'll definitely have to check it out :)
- 13 February 2013 at 13:24
- Hola Bambi said...
more beautiful photos, it looks amazing out there x
- 13 February 2013 at 13:25
- Laura said...
beautiful photos! looks like you had an amazing time, I really enjoyed the vlogs too!
I've just posted a review of Topshops 'Big Smoke' on Black & Gold
Laura xx Black & Gold - 13 February 2013 at 13:35
- Laura said...
These photo's are absolutely lovely Sammi! :) I really want to visit San Francisco now! x Laura
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- bethany jane said...
I can't believe you were in SF! I'm English but I live here now. Looks like you had an amazing time! It's a beautiful city :)
- 13 February 2013 at 13:41
- An said...
oh my god. you went to in and out burgers? id love that! :D your pictures look great. cant wait til i have the money one day to go there :)
www.sortsofcuriosities.blogspot.com - 13 February 2013 at 13:41
- Maria said...
Lovely pictures sam! Looks like you had a wonderful trip.
thesuckerforfashion.blogspot.com x - 13 February 2013 at 13:49
- Kim said...
Aw your photo's have brought back so many memories of San Fran for me :) I'd love to go back one day x
- 13 February 2013 at 13:53
- Leanne Rachel said...
Love these photos so much! Glad you and Ricky had a great trip. :) xxx
seeking--serendipity.blogspot.com - 13 February 2013 at 13:58
- Elle Dako said...
It looks amazing. I have always overlooked San Francisco. I don't know why, though. It looks beautiful! :) Those burgers from in an out burger, must've been delish! I loved your outfits, as well, especially the leather jacket!
Elle :)
www.ellexbelle.blogspot.com - 13 February 2013 at 13:58
- Miriam said...
Amazing photos! :)
- 13 February 2013 at 14:03
- Valérie said...
I love these pictures - they are really amazing! The food YUM looks so great haha!
Great post!
scribblesofvalerie.blogspot.com - 13 February 2013 at 14:12
- MonkeySocks90 said...
Me and my sister want to travel amareica, she wasnt fussed about san fran so ive been showing her your blog to convince her to change her mind... might be working yay!!
x - 13 February 2013 at 14:12
- Pug Crush said...
I just wanted you to know that I really enjoy your blog posts and youtube videos :) you are a great inspiration to me
greeting from Luxembourg (you have fans here as well!) - 13 February 2013 at 14:25
- rosaliejayne said...
Great Photos, It looks like such a lovely place, I'd love to visit there :) Hope you had a great holiday
Rosalie x
rosaliejayne.blogspot.co.uk - 13 February 2013 at 14:43
- Sandra A said...
I HAVE to go to Frisco!! It just looks too frickin cool! Xx
- 13 February 2013 at 14:47
- Alexandra Miehe said...
Love the pictures :)
http://the-astyle.blogspot.ca - 13 February 2013 at 14:55
- J4mieJohnston said...
I really want to go to San Fran! You guys look like you had a really fun time :) I'm jealous!
- 13 February 2013 at 15:16
- Mare said...
GORGEOUS! Makes me miss San Fran--you look like you are having a fabulous time! If you have the ability to drive a bit, you should really check out the trees in Muir Woods outside of the city. They are unlike anything you've ever seen before!
- 13 February 2013 at 17:29
- Amy W. Hemmingway said...
Great photos, it looks like you and Ricky had such a good time :)
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- jae said...
gorgeous pictures.
- 13 February 2013 at 20:17
- Aimee said...
Lovely photos! Now I really want to visit SF!
- 14 February 2013 at 00:56
- CherryJPriano said...
Lovely pics! :)
- 14 February 2013 at 01:08
- Beauty Fashion Skin Care Blog - Girlie Blog Seattle said...
One of my favorite cities. Gorgeous pics - and cute outfit too.
Girlie Blog Seattle | Casual Chic Fashion - 14 February 2013 at 01:13
- Heather said...
Great photographs :)
www.ofbeautyandnothingness.blogspot.co.uk - 14 February 2013 at 01:29
- Elena said...
i could use some america right now.
- 14 February 2013 at 02:31
- Katya R. said...
Beautiful pictures! You guys are so lucky to travel that often together!
- 14 February 2013 at 02:40
- GrandyXO said...
Looks like you had a ridiculously cool time in San Fransisco All your snaps are just Gorgee, Love what your wearing too amazing post hun xox
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- Charmaine Cowland said...
i had bubble tea yesterday after watching your vlog last week!
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- Nicola said...
Those photo's are gorgeous, that sunset is breathtaking!
http://thefashiondistrictnlc.blogspot.co.uk/ - 14 February 2013 at 03:26
- Chi-Chi said...
great pictures - wishing i was on an international break right about now!!!
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- kirstyb said...
i absolutely love san grab - jelaus x
- 14 February 2013 at 03:55
- Roxii said...
Those burger and fries, omg made me so hungry now!!
www.studdedkisses.com - 14 February 2013 at 04:25
- Arsema Haile said...
Your photos are amazinggg <3
- 14 February 2013 at 04:42
- Lisa Stirling said...
Oh lorddd, taco fries! AMAZING. Looks so much fun, really wanna go to SF now!
lisatakespictures xo - 14 February 2013 at 04:56
- Maddy said...
Loved these photos and I enjoyed watching your blogs as well! xxx
http://unstitchedd.blogspot.co.uk - 14 February 2013 at 06:05
- bianca said...
Wow San Fran looks like fun. One of the many places I'd love to visit on the West Coast.
- 14 February 2013 at 06:22
- FASHNBASS said...
So jealous, lovely photos! They've inspired me to travel more!
http://FASHNBASS.blogspot.co.uk - 14 February 2013 at 07:38
- alicebea said...
looks like you had an amazing time, i'm so jealous!
http://whatalicedidtoday.blogspot.co.uk/ - 14 February 2013 at 08:31
- ABeautyRomance said...
I love San Francisco! Your pictures are great! :) ♥
http://abeautyromancee.blogspot.co.uk/ - 14 February 2013 at 09:10
- Shawnee said...
just discovered your blog.. sooo good! san francisco is beautiful! love your outfits. xoxo
shawneedreaming.blogspot.com - 14 February 2013 at 11:08
- Charlotte Ann Owst said...
aww I really want to go now, it looks amazing!
http://charlotteannowst.blogspot.co.uk/ - 14 February 2013 at 12:00
- HeartsAndCrosses said...
Awwww it all looks so amazing!! Lucky girl I'm so jealous
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- 14 February 2013 at 12:20
- abbie webber said...
Food looks amazing!
http://shinebrightx18.blogspot.co.uk/ - personal blogs. - 14 February 2013 at 13:13
- Samantha said...
@Katya. R Oh thank you! We actually haven't been away for nearly a year before this though so dont travel crazy-often! x
- 14 February 2013 at 15:12
- Rachel Ladipo said...
Wow looks absolutely amazing!
http://seen-onscreen.blogspot.co.uk/ - 14 February 2013 at 15:23
- byandie said...
such high quality pictures! And they're so gorgeous!
http://byandie.blogspot.ca/ - 14 February 2013 at 17:25
- Nina Francesca said...
Amazing photos! San Fran looks like a gorgeous city x
www.nina-francesca.com - 15 February 2013 at 03:09
- Caroline said...
Wow your camera quality is amazing! I hope you had an amazing time travelling!!! xxx
http://carolineamme.blogspot.co.uk/ - 15 February 2013 at 03:50
- Leisha said...
looks amazing! I really love to visit there! lovely pics!
http://beauty-bunnies.blogspot.com/ - 15 February 2013 at 05:20
- Shirley said...
This makes me really miss San Francisco... And your pictures are so lovely (at also reminds me of your Vlogs)
You're a great girl sammi <3
Bisous xx
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- 15 February 2013 at 07:31
- Annie ikr said...
Beautiful pictures Sammi! Looks like you two had a ton of fun! I miss your vlogs tho! I wish you would make it more often!
x Annie / www.rlannie.blogspot.com - 15 February 2013 at 07:32
- Holly Gardiner said...
I adore the picture of you in front of the Golden Gate Bridge and the final pic!
Looks like you had an amazing time :)
hollyamberrio.blogspot.co.uk - 15 February 2013 at 11:27
- Rhee said...
It looks like you had an amazing time! I want to travel America so bad, I went to NYC this Xmas and fell in love. Your photography is fab too! xxx
http://herfashlife.blogspot.co.uk - 15 February 2013 at 11:38
- Emily Bearman said...
San Francisco looks so beautiful, I think you've persuaded me to travel there in the future!
Emily xx - 15 February 2013 at 12:06
- Chloe Richards said...
wish i could visit anywhere in america, love all things american x
unratedbeauty.blogspot.com - 15 February 2013 at 14:12
- KSMITH said...
Great pictures! I especially like the one with you in front of the Golden Gate Bridge. Makes me miss northern Cali.
- 17 February 2013 at 10:10
- annagarcia92 said...
Awww SF is so beautiful! I really want to go there some day!
http://annagarcia92.blogspot.co.uk/ - 17 February 2013 at 14:36
- Kate Lees said...
The bridge is amazing, love your photos x
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- Jemma x said...
Great photos :) xxx
http://jeminixlife.blogspot.com - 19 February 2013 at 01:54
- kristinec said...
Next time visit Berkeley!
- 21 February 2013 at 10:49
- EasyKoreanFood said...
It's so sad that I've lived in California my whole life and yet I've never visited San Francisco! Such a shame, especially after seeing your photos! You look amazing, as always! This is a bit random, but I noticed that you and Ricky cook a lot in your vlogs (which is awesome) so I was just wondering if you'd like to visit my cooking channel called EasyKoreanFood because I think you guys would really enjoy eating Korean food! It would be so cool if you visited it if you have the chance :) Anyway, love the pictures as always!
- 22 February 2013 at 01:06
- Jess said...
BEAUTIFUL photos of San Fran, I would absolutely LOVE to go there!!
Love your blog :)
your newest follower x
www.iamjessw.blogspot.co.uk - 22 February 2013 at 13:50
- Mandy said...
Sammie, San Francisco looks amazing by your photos and vlogs; I have always wanted to visit America.
I have to compare, their thrift stores looks more appealing, the clothes there looks more in our range and the food, where do I begin? It all looks mouth watering.
- 23 February 2013 at 05:36
- Jen JbBoutique said...
Wow very jealous san fran is now on my to do list ♥
Jenjbboutique.Blogspot.com x - 24 February 2013 at 12:33
- Karolin said...
these pictures look nice :) i want to go to san francisco, too. hopefully one day i am able to do that. and your big zara bag ? looking forward for a big haul now :D you look beautiful on every single pictures, xoxo
karo :) - 25 February 2013 at 12:12
- Ashley, Lions Lace Lattes said...
Love looking through these photos. I love San Fran and have been twice. These photso make me want to go back!
xo Ashley - 28 February 2013 at 23:50
- A. said...
You always lokk so pretty!! <3 I miss SF!!
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The general in charge of all the Army's training and doctrine, Gen. Martin Dempsey, says that the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center "is a great educational treasure for the Army."
Dempsey, who spent the day touring DLIFLC Sept. 24, shared his thoughts of the value of language and culture training for servicemembers.
"Culture and foreign language are one of those tools that allow us to build the kind of leaders that are adaptive and can win in (a competitive) environment," said Dempsey, explaining that the ever changing military operating environment has been affected by globalization and the rapid advancement of technology. "As a result, the leaders who encounter that competitive environment have to win in that learning environment. They have to learn faster than their potential adversaries."
During his visit to DLIFLC classrooms, Dempsey had an opportunity to interact with servicemembers and find out what type of methodology and technology is used to aid students in their acquisition of language and culture.
"Pashto is a hard language to learn because the word meanings vary so much from dialect to dialect. What may be an expression for children in one village, may be an expression for animals in another. You can easily insult an entire village if you make that mistake," said Pashto student Staff Sgt. Matt Russell.
In response to a question about ARFORGEN, a tiered readiness and sequential deployment rotational model based on progressive readiness requirements, Dempsey said "Providing the culturally aware language skilled Soldiers and leaders, in accordance with ARFORGEN, is not only possible, but an imperative for us."
Stating that ARFORGEN is a mechanism that provides the ability to "see ourselves," Dempsey added, "One of the things that we have to do is match the tactical adaptations we have made in the fight in Iraq and Afghanistan with the institutional adaptations. We have to adapt our policies and processes to ensure that we provide the Soldiers with the right skills."
Dempsey also visited DLIFLC's Student Learning Center, which provides the first week of instruction for all students, in English grammar, area studies and student learning techniques according to learner types.
"Some of the techniques used here to deliver education have applicability in different areas (of TRADOC)," said Dempsey, referring to the possibility of applying DLIFLC student learning strategies to other TRADOC schools.
"DLI is a test-bed for emerging technologies and how to not only deliver skills in the near term education, but also for life long learning," said Dempsey.
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"It (DLIFLC) has an incredibly talented faculty, a large population of dedicated students, who are more than willing to tell you what is working and what not," he said, having visited both Persian Farsi and Afghan Pashto classes.
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I let my silly friend by it and inform me about Black Ops 2. After he purchased it and told me it was no better than MW3, I wiped my brow in relief. Saved my self $60 .
I picked it up, am actually going to play right now, and I like it. It has maps to please just about everybody, and the campaign and zombies are great. I still find problems with long range definition, but everything else, including the details to images and sound effects are the best so far in the franchise. What a staggering amount of money being made here. I myself loved the first Black Ops, but disliked MW3. This one I felt was better than both of them by taking the best attributes of both and combining them, while tinkering enough with the flaws of both and effectively eliminating them. It didn't have the wow factor with the graphics that the first one did, but only because this is a mash of the first and MW3.
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"She gets out of the car, (the officer) grabs her, throws her against the car, spreads her legs -- kicks -- spreads her legs and grabs her arms and forcefully pulls them out and yanks them very hard behind her back," her attorney, Susan Hutchison told Dallas TV station KXAS.
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Tostones with Roasted Garlic Mayo
As I walk by the bananas in the grocery store, the often overlooked plantains cry out "use us, use us" and I put my head down and quickly move along regretting that I never do anything with them. With the Cuban burgers on the menu I was thinking about Caribbean sides and I remembered something about unripe plantains being similar in texture to potatoes and I seemed to recall something about frying them. A quick search on the internet and I came up with tostones which sounded like a great side for my Cuban burgers. Tostones are essentially slices of unripe plantain that are fried in oil, flattened into discs and then fried a second time until golden brown and crispy. As I often do with fries, I was thinking of serving the tostones with some mayo for dipping, but I read that they are commonly served with a garlic sauce and then the idea of a roasted garlic mayo dipping sauce popped into my head.
The tostones were pretty easy to make and I found them much less temperamental that french fries are to cook. They came out a beautifully golden brown and they were nice and crispy and good! The texture of the tostones was very similar to that of potatoes and they made a perfect substitute for fries with the Cuban burgers. As good as the tostones were the roasted garlic mayo made them even better and it certainly was 'lick the bowl clean' good! I am definitely going to be making tostones again!
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2 green plantains (peeled and sliced into 1/2-1 inch pieces)
oil for frying
salt to taste
1 head roasted garlic (squeezed)
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1. Heat the oil to 350F.
2. Add the plantains and fry until semi soft and golden brown, about 1-2 minutes per side.
3. Remove from oil and drain on paper towels.
4. Press the plantains into thin 'chips'.
5. Fry the plantains a second time until crisp and brown, about 3 minutes.
6. Remove from oil, drain on paper towels and sprinkle with salt.
7. Mix the roasted garlic into the mayonnaise and serve as a dipping sauce with the tostones.
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