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Brands and Plants: Which Can You Name? Which Can Your Kids Name?

October 29, 2011




This image from Occupy London has been floating around on facebook. I thought it was interesting, so I decided to print it off and bring it home and test it out with my family. We happened to have friends over, a dad and his two kids, so we were able to include them in the [...]

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Who wins? Playing games with kids

January 13, 2011




My American expat in Germany friend Yelli (I miss everyone in Berlin!) from 50% of my DNA had a question that she hoped I would answer. She wrote: I wanted to know if you let your children win games? This is coming up more and more often in our household and to be honest, I [...]

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Bored in Ottawa? Check out Kids in the Capital

October 9, 2010




When people have lived in the same place for a long time, they often settle into a routine. They go to the same places with the same friends, filling their calendars with repeat performances. There is a lot of comfort in the familiar, but it can get boring after a while. I know that we [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: This is Canada

February 10, 2010




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Wordless Wednesday: Funny Faces

November 11, 2009




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Raising bilingual kids: benefits and techniques

September 22, 2009




Children who have the opportunity to learn a second language are given a world of opportunity. It opens up new opportunities in terms of who they can communicate with, what they can read, and where they can travel with ease. It is a partial cure for closed-mindedness. Those are the obvious benefits. But learning a [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Chutes Coulonge Kids Aerial Park

September 8, 2009




A few weeks ago my husband took the kids to the waterfalls and aerial park at Chutes Coulonge in Fort Coulonge, Quebec (easy day trip from Ottawa). Here are some pics from the little kids obstacle park and the waterfalls. Want more fun in and around Ottawa? Check out: Mud Lake @ DaniGirl.ca Upper Canada [...]

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Explaining the Recession and Teaching Financial Literacy to Kids

May 22, 2009




The recession is hard. It is hard on parents and it is even harder on kids. Parents may be struggling, may feel out of control, but at least they have some knowledge of their financial situation, some understanding of why all of this is happening. The kids are often left in the dark, with no [...]

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Quelling crazed consumerism

November 28, 2008




I want that I need that I like that I want it I want that I want this That is what the chorus was starting to sound like at our house a few weeks ago. Our kids used to only watch Treehouse (advertising free educational kids television) and PBS Kids (in particular for Sesame Street). [...]

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Money money money money…

November 23, 2008




For today’s reader question, I’m going to partially pass the buck by linking to some great resources and then add my own 2 cents to it (pun intended). Michelle asks: Today I revisited a question that’s come to mind a few times, in slightly different forms, but with the same concept. I also read, and [...]

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