Having two pre-schoolers means half of the time, my parenting journey is won by ensuring my own emotions are in check. It has been said that “parenting is hard” etc etc. But really I feel parenting is hard when you are still trying to parent the young girl or boy within you who did not …
Aagh naptime, that sweet place where exhausted mamas can rest, rejuvenate and replenish their supply before the evening routine and dinnertime shenanigans begins. But wait…my child has stopped taking afternoon naps…now what?? My son is 5, my daughter is 3. I am FINALLY coming around to the realization that my son (and potentially my daughter) …
Naps, transitions & Screens: The gift of unstructured play Read More »
The other day as the kids were cleaning up after playing with their toys, they started getting distracted. I noticed the toys were clearly not going to go back in their bin (at least not within the next hour or so). I immediately defaulted to the, “if we do not finish up picking the toys …
Lets stop putting screens and devices on pedestals they are unworthy of Read More »
The other day my kids and I were home on a lazy afternoon in pajamas and from out of nowhere the clouds opened up and it rained!! I immediately jumped at the opportunity and shouted, “let’s make hot chocolate and have it with cookies as we watch the rain.” The kids were so excited and …
I just finished a great book by Priya Parker – The art of Gathering : How we meet and why it matters. In one of the chapters she mentioned “roses & thorns as a way to get conversation going around a dinner table. I was curious about this so I dug up a bit more …
Roses, Thorns & Buds : Preserving family dinner conversations without devices Read More »
I have been thinking a lot and forming ideas around this concept of “A crockpot childhood.” To be honest I have been telling myself – you know, the whole “putting things out in the universe” that this will be the title of my first published book. I do not know when, I do not know …
Crockpot Childhood – Savoring the sweet and slow of the early years Read More »
Gone are the days when we could recite our neighbors car plates or even their landline phone number verbatim. Because tech has made things so much easier, we really have no need to recall all those digits. Working memory is like a temporary sticky note in our brain. It acts us a place where we …
Yesterday (Feb 7th) marked the last day of Children’s Mental health week. My work as a mental health nurse practitioner has made me peel back the onion layers to find that a lot of the challenges we face in our adulthood with our wellbeing stem from childhood. Children come into the world in form of …
Unpack your baggage so your kids do not have to carry it for you Read More »
The days are long the years are short. Soak it all up they said. We hear that over and over again. It is hard in the thick of a Canadian winter to bundle up and head out in frigid temperatures. Yet once we are all out and pelting each other with snow balls, making snow …
The days are long (and cold)..the years are short Read More »
