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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 […]

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

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

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

Last week I was at the library to pick up some DVDs and books using the new curbside service. Long story short my order was mixed up and I ended up waiting and waiting and after one of the gracious servers had looked high and low for my DVDs and books I gave up and

Screens n Kids had the opportunity to interview the author Eleanor Chun behind the awesome kids book The Invisibles. The genius idea / theme behind the book is to speak to kids on the importance of spending some time away from their screens and back to the fundamentals of childhood play – the creativity, the

I was watching a video the other day of former Facebook vice president of user growth Chamath Palihapitya and a couple of lines that were profound were “I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. That is truly where we are.” My children are not allowed to use

Having a three year old means after an hour or two of watching Paw Patrol it is easy to switch off the Wifi and tell our toddler “the internet is gone.” It is low key deceitful actually the first days it was sad to see his innocence. He simply says “oh, no more internet” and