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 […]
Dopamine tickles, screens and activating the fight or flight response. Read More »
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
Electronic Screen Syndrome – why we may be overmedicating and misdiagnosing a generation Read More »
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
Batch Cooking, meal prep, screen time & all things in between Read More »
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
Difficult Conversations with kids – have them early, have them often. Read More »
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.
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I loved waking up on Saturday mornings when I was a child, making tea for the whole family then sitting down on the couch and watching cartoons from Road Runner to Care Bears and Captain Planet – yes I am a 90s baby. It just filled up my love tank. It was a beautiful part
When morning T.V becomes an atomic habit Read More »
Meal prep especially dinner is always a “hot spot” where I was constantly handing over devices and tablets so as to “get dinner done.” After all, we had made it to this part of the day right? After I read the book : Hunt, Gather Parent: What ancient cultures can teach us about the lost
Of dinner prep, devices, and harnessing the power of Toddlers Inc. Read More »
Growing up as a kid in the 90s, we played board games. My siblings and I were so competitive it was so all fun and games until it was not all fun and games. Not everyone got a trophy for showing up. Second place was as good as last and so on and so forth.
Board Games – start them early, play them often Read More »
My son today on the way out to pick his little sister from daycare, told me this words as he was shutting off the TV for us to head out – “But mum, I am not yet done.” It was at that instant I realized that try as we may we will never be “done”
I remember taking this picture one of those days at the height of the pandemic when I could tell cabin fever was at an alltime high. It was morning, hubby had just gone to work as he has been frontline since day one. Morning is a time I guard fiercely – I will write about morning
Imagination, creativity and time Read More »
