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When We Can’t Save Our Children
Posted April 11, 2013 by Jen
I remember when my children were babies looking down on them as they lay sleeping in my arms and feeling the most intense love. When they were small I worried about schedules and meals and sleep. Their basic needs were…
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Children of Blind Mothers Learn New Modes of Communication
Posted April 11, 2013 by Elizabeth Norton, ScienceNOW
What happens when mom is blind? A new study shows that the children of sightless mothers develop healthy communication skills and can even outstrip the children of parents with normal vision.
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© Angella Dykstra 2005-2013 All rights reserved. | Originally published for dutchblitz.net as The 1 Percent.
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The 1 Percent
Posted April 10, 2013 by angella
My kids are in that “sweet spot” so many people told us about when we were in the trenches of toddler and preschooler insanity. They all wipe their own bums (and plug toilets, but that’s not what I’m here to write about) and they set the table and they check off their chore charts. They [...]
© Angella Dykstra 2005-2013 All rights reserved. | Originally published for dutchblitz.net as The 1 Percent.
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Night Lights: Bright Light Pillows
Posted April 8, 2013 by Erica Berman
Good Monday morning? How are you feeling?I still have this darn cold, but thankfully I got a super sleep last night so I definitely feel better than I did.Speaking of sleeps, I have another find that has made bed times around here a little more b…
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Ottawa giveaway alert: $100 worth of spending money from terra20!
Posted April 5, 2013 by andrea tomkins
A great giveaway from terra20 in Ottawa! You can win $100 in cold hard cash! (Ok, a cold hard gift card. But you catch my drift right?)
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FotoFriday – Full Circle
Posted April 5, 2013 by Christine
I had a very clear full circle moment last night as I was helping my almost-12 year old "antique" paper for his social studies project. I remember doing the exact same activity for school with my Mum when I was his…
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Head first.
Posted April 4, 2013 by Emily
It seems that anything worth doing is worth doing head-first. Is this a boy thing? Is it a personality trait? Is this reckless abandon something I could stand to learn to incorporate into my own life? Am I fated to…
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Are There Gaps in Your Fertility Knowledge?
Posted April 4, 2013 by Marilyn
Although spring is traditionally the time for new life, people can suffer from infertility woes any time of the year. Recently a study was released from UBC saying that most people “have a startling lack of knowledge about their own fertility” and this is likely to get worse as the population on the whole waits longer [...]
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Pulling Back
Posted April 3, 2013 by Kath
So I haven’t been immune to all the talk on parenting sites and the media in general about screens, and the inordinate amount of time we spend on them. It’s just that I was never all that inclined to do…
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Magic Bumpers: An Alternative to Bed Rails for Toddlers
Posted April 3, 2013 by Erica Berman
If you have kids, then no doubt beds, night time and sleep are top-of-mind issues in your home. It starts when they’re born. Do you co-sleep? Do you start them in a bassinett? When do you move them to a crib? When do you m…
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Who is Will’s Daddy?
Posted April 2, 2013 by Sara
Have we all recovered from yesterday’s post yet? My siblings may still be attached to oxygen masks as we speak. How could I resist?What isn’t an April Fools joke? Will is almost five. People said to pay attention because it…
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Mom is sick, so it’s Lord of the Flies until the antibiotics kick in.
Posted April 1, 2013 by Emily
For over a week now, my throat has been constricted and achy, my mouth has been sticky, and my body has swung between too hot and too cold. For four nights I didn’t sleep. If in general I am…
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‘Rithmetic
Posted March 27, 2013 by Kath
As a teacher I often get asked questions from my layperson friends about their children’s school lives, and honestly, I’m happy to help out when I can. And perhaps it’s not that surprising, but the two most common themes I…
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Poppin’ good fun: an easy and inexpensive birthday invitation idea
Posted March 25, 2013 by andrea tomkins
We’ve booked our youngest daughter’s birthday party at Funhaven again this year and have been busy handing out the party invitations. They’re so neat (her idea, not mine!) and I wanted to share it with you:
It’s crazy easy to pull this together:
1) Write or print the details of the party on a small piece of [...]
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The stories that bind our families together
Posted March 20, 2013 by andrea
A couple days ago Toronto-based blogger/writer/traveller Heather Greenwood Davis posted a link to a thought-provoking New York Times article that immediately sunk into my brain and has been percolating there ever since. It brings to mind something I often think about… and that’s my job as a parent and the Big Question that comes along [...]
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I Yelled At Another Mom…and I Think I Was Right
Posted March 19, 2013 by Marilyn
*knock knock knock* Is this thing on? Soooooo, how’s it going? Good, I hope. For me, maybe not so much. I have been struggling mentally for a number of months now. It’s been a lot of going through the motions and feeling like I’m not really present. However, I hesitate (even now) to bring it up because [...]
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The Steubenville Rape: The Untouchable Teenage Boy
Posted March 18, 2013 by Jen
I started to write a post about something else but every time I put my fingers to the keyboard all I could think about was this post I read through a Facebook update:I am so fucking sick of teaching our…
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cmkl: Some moments in my life are truly awesome
Posted March 17, 2013 by cmkl
Mallory said this to me after we got back from her Oma and Opa’s place this afternoon. Don’t know what she was thinking of but I thought of her going over the jump Irene made for her on the hill in Opa and Oma’s back yard.
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Parenting survival tip: this one’s about laundry
Posted March 16, 2013 by andrea
Got kids? You must have laundry! Here’s a sneaky way of making the process a little less annoying for ya. And maybe you’ll even make some money doing it! 
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It Ain’t the Pox!!!
Posted March 15, 2013 by Sara
Remember this commercial???’Mommy, you’re so pretty but what is that gross, revolting flap of skin hanging off your neck?" The commercial came out when I first had Will and I remember finding it totally hilarious that a kid would:a. notice…
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