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our valentines collection
Filed Under eco friendly, parenting | February 3, 2012
We’ve been searching our archives of late looking for items to populate our brand new Pinterest boards and we came across some great Valentine’s printables we created just for you in past years and some other crafty Vday ideas that we wanted to compile and share as this weekend is the perfect time to get [...]
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 [...]
Tyze wrap up
Filed Under parenting | October 31, 2011
I’m wrapping up my free month with Tyze, and I have to say I’m seriously considering purchasing a membership. I thought I’d share with you my reasons: Privacy: Yes, this one is first on my list. The more I reflect on it, the more I realize how much I had held back online because of [...]
private-Tyze
Filed Under parenting | October 26, 2011
A recent article on Mashable confirmed what I’ve heard anecdotally so many times: what you do online can have very real impacts in the offline world. It’s been shown that more than 90 percent of recruiters have made hiring decisions based on how the applicant presents themselves through social media. This got me thinking: how [...]
getting on top of my schedule
Filed Under parenting | October 18, 2011
If you’ll forgive the pop reference, this week was a classic ‘Oops, I did it again.’ I arranged for my older son to go to his grandmothers after school on Friday, so I could book a therapy appointment for my younger son, followed by 3 hours of respite for me. We were all looking forward [...]
Tyze it all together
Filed Under parenting | October 15, 2011
When my boys were about 3 and 4 years old, my mom made a comment that I wasn’t just a parent, I was also a full-time administrative assistant to my family. And she was right. With two special needs children, there are times when we’ve had 5 appointments in any given week. And if that [...]
ann douglas: the mother of all
Filed Under parenting | September 29, 2011
Last Wednesday I was lucky enough to get to sit down with Ann Douglas, parenting author extradordinaire and ask her your questions! Meeting Ann was a big moment for me. Not only was her Mother of All Pregnancy Books the first book I purchased when I was pregnant but she was also gracious enough to [...]
And then we played…
Filed Under parenting, things | September 26, 2011
We talked introduction to strategy games for ages 5+ on yoyomama today. Here’s a few more recommendations that are technically for ages 8-10+, but we’ve found children as young as age six enjoying the first three once they’ve been introduced to basic strategy games, and have the concentration to play for an hour or more. [...]
lunch box deconstructed: chocolate hummus
Filed Under parenting | September 12, 2011
Now, having said we don’t usually attempt novelty we did introduce something new this school year. We’d seen an abundance of chocolate hummous recipes in the blogosphere this summer, and we just had to try them out. We found the standard recipes a little too gritty to be popular with our more conventional eaters, so [...]
on the road again
Filed Under parenting | July 4, 2011
We’ve talked about traveling with younger kids quite often, but as we well know the five and up crowd still needs a lot of entertainment on long trips. We’ve been lucky that nobody in our family is plagued by car sickness, so a pile of books can occupy our eight-year-old for many hours. But long [...]
