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A Birthday is such a Special Day
A birthday is such a special day. It’s the one day of the year where we get to truly celebrate the little person that our child is growing into. That’s why planning a birthday party takes some thought. I find that if you pick a theme, it helps to keep the plans from getting scattered [...]
Give your Kids the Gift of Giving
Put a child in a room full of poor, less fortunate children and you know what they’ll see? Kids. Over the last eight months My husband and I have watched it happen with our sons Ethan and Cameron, over and over again. We left home last July on a yearlong around-the-world trip. We wanted to [...]
Developing a Sense of Adventure
With spring seemingly around the corner, parents can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that they can soon start to pack away winter coats and accessories for yet another year. It is a time for renewed interest in escaping to the outdoors and planning excursions that will help beat the winter blues. For preschoolers, trips [...]
Spice it up with David Rocco
If you’re a parent you know how exhausting raising kids is, sometimes you don’t know where the time goes or when you’ll get time for yourselves as a couple. My wife and I just had a baby. There’s nothing like an infant to make the idea of ‘date night’ seem like a distant memory… but [...]
A few tips from chef David Rocco
Bresaola Pork has its prosciutto, and beef has bresaola. This is an Italian cured beef, sliced paper thin so that the pieces are almost transparent. First, the beef is seasoned with a dry rub of spices and coarse salt, and hung to dry for a few days. That’s followed by a curing process of one [...]
My Wee View
With the hustle and bustle of Christmas behind us, we have now entered January and can look forward to frozen fingers and drippy noses! So what to do with cooped up kids with candy cane energy to burn? Here are a few options to keep your little ones entertained during the doom and gloom of the long [...]
Say Cheese!
With the holidays coming up, this is the time of year when a lot of us start thinking about family pictures. While some people honestly love it, many see it a laborious task to be endured. But having your picture taken doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth without anaesthesia. We are talking, after all, [...]
Practice your math skills while cooking
By Theresa Albert, nutritionist and founder of www.myfriendinfood.com Whether you hope to bring out your childrens’ inner Picasso or deepest Einstein, the way to help them along is to cook with them. The multiple skills acquired while just having fun go well beyond making cookies. The pleasure of measuring, mixing, squishing and fixing do come [...]
Squeezing Out The Last Of Summer
By Kathy Buckworth As the days get shorter, and the temperature starts to dip, many families find themselves looking over their full fall calendars, packed with school and after school activities…and begin reminiscing about the summer they see coming to an end. But you don’t have to let the summer feelings go quite yet. Here [...]
Three “S’s” for the Road
Tips to making sure your next Road trip with a Preschooler isn’t your last. By Heather Greenwood Davis An open winding road, the warm wind in your hair, and then it hits you …via a flying juice box from the backseat…this is not your usual road trip. Things change when you’re traveling with a [...]
