Penny

Ever since I was young I have been those people who pursued people in the fringes and margins of the food chain. The ones who society easily overlooks in the hum drum of life. Maybe its because growing up I was always that shy, introverted girl who barely wanted to take up space and always […]

The other day I had an impromptu mummy daughter date with my little one. So we went to the thrift store as I needed to pick some items. While there of course she made her way to the toy isle and as she was looking through the toys I was fortunate the aisle I needed

So the last couple of Friday Movie nights my daughter (3) has loved and requested we watch Finding Dory like twice. She loved the idea of “looking for her parents,” etc. So today we borrowed Finding Nemo – considered the “O.G” of the finding series. I figured well it should have the same theme and

So we have a new thing we started recently in our home. “Library Fridays” We head to the library the kids pick up DVDs – yep they enter the library and make a beeline for the DVD section. In a whole library. The reader in me used to get appalled to instead of getting exasperated

Yesterday our son watched 5 hours of TV. yep. 5 hours. He was not sick nor was there a special occasion. You see this whole week I have been in back to back trainings for work, so yesterday was the only day I had to actually do the actual client work. I had back to

Every week for the past two months, as part of my work I have been attending a weekly learning hub hosted by the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. The focus has been on an array of various mental health conditions that pediatricians and other care providers are seeing in practice. One consistent theme that I

I just completed batch cooking for the week. I tend to call myself a batch cooker and not really a “meal prepper” as I am not the meticulous pinterest-asparagus-arranged in a row type mama. I batch cook. That looks like a medium tupperware of cabbage stew, one with veggie rice, another pasta sauce and so

Today as we were driving with my son who is 5 we passed an “Adult store” selling adult merch. He is learning how to read so I heard him pronounce slowly “D..V..D.”. and immediately he said, “mom they keep DVDs there!” I almost choked up a bit when I thought about his innocence and the

One of the big rules in our Screens n Kids playbook is “Do not negotiate your non-negotiables.” If there are places in your home or workspace or times in your day that you do not want screens and devices to infiltrate then draw that line in the sand. Boundaries are there to keep us safe.