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online bullying: are policies enough?
Filed Under guest bloggers, parenting, tech tuesday | November 2, 2011
I’ve recently had some stories of online bullying hit pretty close to home in my private life, and it’s caused me to spend a fair bit of time thinking about bullying in our schools and the role technology plays in it today. In light of the BC Liberal’s new education plan, which allows all students [...]
that was the summer we went to kellerman’s…
Filed Under faces & places, guest bloggers | July 19, 2011
We were recently invited to check out Harrison Hot Springs Resort & Spa, so we sent our intrepid Shoni Field with her family to do a little exploring: The line popped into my head as we walked through the lobby of the Harrison Hot Springs Resort. Not that Johnny Castle was there to teach me [...]
its bike month…time to get peddling
Filed Under guest bloggers | June 23, 2011
Did you know that June is Bike Month? Yippee! While June may be almost over, the time to get our bikes out of storage and on the trails is ripe. We asked Jared Walker from Opus Bikes what his top tips were for getting our kids ready for summer biking season. Top five safety [...]
for the love of the stage
Filed Under events, guest bloggers | June 21, 2011
Today’s post is guest blogged by Amy, a soprano in the Vancouver based singing group, Aliqua. We wanted to hear how a performer can do it all. As a somewhat new mom, and a performer by passion (I will use this acting degree for good someday), I have been afraid to head back and pursue [...]
feeding a picky kid: foodie friday
Filed Under foodie friday, guest bloggers | June 17, 2011
This week’s foodie Friday is guest blogged (and guest reciped)by Andrea E. Niosi, the clever mum behind My Picky Kid. I recently came upon My Picky Kid as I was tearing through the inter-web looking for solutions to get my own picky kid to eat something other than refried beans, strawberries and mac and cheese. [...]
raising m: yoyodaddy
Filed Under guest bloggers | June 14, 2011
We know that our readers aren’t all mamas. In fact, we have noticed a recent influx of daddies…many of them from Touch Football BC. This may be because I play football, but more likely its because of this guy, Dave Pottinger, a yoyodaddy blogger and football player extraordinaire! Dave will be blogging here frequently about [...]
time to sleep
Filed Under guest bloggers, parenting | May 9, 2011
Sleep. We love it and we just can’t get enough of it. Our kids on the other hand seem to want to be awake all the time…especially when they should be happily in dreamland catching their zzzzs. So we asked Jennifer Garden of SleepDreams Sleep Professionals Inc for some tips on getting your wee ones [...]
kiss (keep it simple silly): tip #12
Filed Under eco friendly, guest bloggers | April 29, 2011
The Environmental Working Group may have their dirty dozen shoppers guide to pesticides and now we have our “green dozen” – great tips from eco-savvy Canadian experts. So in the interests of keeping it simple here’s our last tip from Tanis Frame (aka MamaMaven): Parents are often overwhelmed trying to navigate through what is green [...]
the chicken and the egg: tip #11
Filed Under eco friendly, guest bloggers | April 28, 2011
Our next (and close to last) tip comes from Lindsay Coulter, aka David Suzuki’s Queen of Green, and it’s all about eggs. This struck a chord with me as my sister used to call free-range chickens “happy chickens” when we were young(er): Choose eggs from happy chickens Here’s a quick guide to navigating egg carton [...]
learn to read: tip #10
Filed Under eco friendly, guest bloggers | April 27, 2011
After yesterday’s tip from an enviro dad, today’s tip comes from a green mama. The Green Mama to be precise: Learn to read labels! You can save a bundle of money and lots of headaches (the figurative and literal kind) by learning to decipher the ingredients on the labels of your beauty care products. Luckily, [...]
