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Ottawa Readers: Want to Attend a Book Reading and Pub Tweetup?

November 24, 2011




On December 12, author Beverly Akerman will be doing a reading of her book, The Meaning of Children, at the Ottawa Library. I thought this would be a good opportunity to get a group of Ottawa parents / social media addicts together for the reading and/or a pub tweet-up afterward — you can attend the [...]

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What are Community Values?

March 1, 2011




When I hear the term “community values”, I think of people coming together to support each other in health, happiness and success. I think of people reaching across barriers and getting to know people who are different from them. I think of people being considerate of their neighbours and polite to each other. I don’t [...]

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Outsourcing discipline?

February 15, 2011




If you and your kids are a fan of Robert Munsch stories, you’ve probably read Mortimer. Mortimer is a young boy who doesn’t want to go to sleep. He starts singing at the top of his lungs as soon as his mother says goodnight and closes the door. This is followed by his father, his [...]

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Ottawa Schools Survey Teens on Sexual Orientation and More

November 4, 2010




The Internet was abuzz today with information on the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board’s plans to survey its student body. According to the Ottawa Citizen’s article Board to ask students if they are gay by Matthew Pearson, the school board is going to ask a range of questions to students from Grades 7 to Grade 12, [...]

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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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Goodbye Berlin, Hello Canada

July 25, 2010




It seems like just yesterday, I was announcing our upcoming trip to Berlin with my post From Bacon to Bratwurst (and a vegan cafe). Now, 3 months after we arrived in Berlin, we are getting ready to go back home. Having lived in Germany previously, I thought I was well prepared for our visit and [...]

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Ottawa school bans balls at recess

January 22, 2010




This week an Ottawa school, D. Roy Kennedy Public School, has been in the news and featured on the Free Range Kids blog because a group of students started a petition to reverse a ban on playing with balls at recess in the winter. Students are allowed to run around and play, but they cannot [...]

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Bloganthropy: Help me support the Christmas Exchange

November 20, 2009




The Christmas season usually creeps up on me. Slowly, but surely, over the course of the month of November I see more decorations, hear more Christmas songs, see more advertising and get invited to more seasonal events…just as the kids start to get into a panicked frenzy over the magic of it all and we [...]

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