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What the Cheese
Posted January 18, 2013 by Marilyn
My daughter ate a piece of cheese today. It was approximately the same size as a quarter. And it was a monumental moment This piece of cheese is the first cheese that has ever crossed the lips of my daughter in all of her four years and three months on this earth. The first piece [...]
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Meal planning to save money
Posted January 17, 2013 by Gail Vaz-Oxlade
Enjoy the flavours and savings of a home-cooked meal every night with the help of these meal planning websites.
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Changing Perspective on Parenting
Posted January 11, 2013 by Erica Berman
I had an epiphany recently: I am an imperfect parent, I do many things wrong…but that doesn’t make me a ‘bad’ parent, and just possibly I’m a good parent.If you read all my parenting posts, then you know I spend a lot of time berating myself be…
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Protecting Your Kids Online: Setting Rules to Keep Them Safe
Posted January 9, 2013 by Jodi Shaw
It’s been a sudden and unusual routine in our house since the Christmas break that our teenager has been asking for more computer time, which is not something he’s done before. Of course his first stop into the social networking hive is Fac…
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Inspiring Good Values in Kids
Posted January 9, 2013 by Marilyn
It’s not easy to be a parent, but I still do my best to really make an effort to focus on my children and parent consciously. Beyond the very critical act of living my life with the very values that I hope to pass onto my kids, I also try to make learning life lessons [...]
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Awkward Question: Family values
Posted January 9, 2013 by MoneySense staff
How to teach youngsters the value of a dollar.
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New XC ski trail discovery (well, for us anyway)
Posted January 8, 2013 by andrea
A bit about the trails at Green’s Creek in Orleans (Ottawa). There is some great cross-country skiing to be found here for sure.
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Get a Fit Fix (For Your Kids)
Posted January 7, 2013 by Erica Berman
Recently I wrote a review of Fit Fix for the Huffington Post. Fit Fix is a personal training studio in the Yonge & Eglinton neighbourhood of Toronto owned by husband and wife team, Jonathan and Tania Skelcher. Their clientele range in a…
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Back to school!
Posted January 6, 2013 by Chantel
Thatcher and Tanner are happy the others are going back to school!Usually once a holiday has ended and the children get back to school I am estatic, jumping for joy and way to happy to see them off to school!…
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Parenting struggles: letting your kids grow up
Posted January 3, 2013 by Jodi Shaw
“I can’t handle this!” I wailed into hubs arms the other day, crying hard. Â Like full out ugly crying, and all because JJ (my teen) age thirteen was missing. Â He was at a friends house and went to Chilliwack with his parents and tri…
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JK Musical?
Posted January 3, 2013 by Sara
I’ve been pretty relaxed on scheduling Will for things. We’ve done some swimming lessons (repeating Level 1 for the fourth time this spring) and a few soccer classes. Last summer we did nothing. I really don’t want to be the…
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cmkl: Seven
Posted January 3, 2013 by cmkl
Around this time in 2006 Irene and I were settling in to a room at the Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital, tired, bewildered, but crazy, heart-bursting in love with our newborn child, Mallory.
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Silence is NOT Golden {+Links of Interest}
Posted October 21, 2012 by Devan McGuinness
I have had a long, long week my friends! The kids have been home from school basically the whole week as we battle out a cold, flu and of course, pink eye. I still have this cough that won’t quit, but thankfully the kids seem well enough to go back to school at the start [...]
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Go. Stop.
Posted December 23, 2010 by Capital Mom
Go. Stop. Go. Stop. I have come to see my life as a series of moments. Some over in the blink of an eye. Some stretched out like salt water taffy, pulled apart piece by piece until all the little bits are shoved quickly into a mouth and …
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4:32pm
Posted December 22, 2010 by Capital Mom
This is when I start to watch the clock. I will glance over every few minutes, hoping that a time warp has occurred and it is now 5pm. That any minute the husband will be walking through the door.My bag of tricks is empty. We have painted. Cut wit…
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Two sided
Posted December 13, 2010 by Capital Mom
There are two sides to everything. I have to remind myself of that sometimes. When she is whiny and clingy. When he is crying and pushing. Then I forget the other side.She is sweet and loving. He is caring and kind. They play together so nicely. They a…
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Poetry
Posted December 11, 2010 by Capital Mom
She was sitting at the table eating her peas. I made up a poem, struggling to rhyme as I went along. She liked it and stopped calling everything bad, bad mom bad grocery list bad writing, long enough to listen.She asked for more when I stopped but I sa…
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Compliance
Posted December 3, 2010 by Capital Mom
Neither of my children are particularly compliant.The girl likes to verify that I really mean what I say before she complies. Repeatedly.Can I watch another video?No.Just one more video!No. How about I watch one more video? No.Only one more?No.I h…
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Parenting Truths Revealed…
Posted June 24, 2010 by The Mayor!
Things “They” Never Tell You…
As I make my way through the minefield of parenting, I have come to realize that there are far too many things no one ever bothers to tell you…BEFORE you have kids. It’s highly possible that these secrets are so closely guarded as to ensure the survival of the species. Whether [...]
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