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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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Playgrounds of Berlin (Wordless Wednesday)

August 4, 2010




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Play Food

July 26, 2010




There are some really bad kids toys out there. Jaw droppingly bad. And when I saw this one on Finding Summer’s Anti-Consumerism Link Farm post, my jaw did drop. I could see this being useful for budding documentary film producers putting on a home re-make of Supersize Me, but otherwise I wouldn’t be welcoming my [...]

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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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Book Review: Play (by Stuart Brown, M.D.)

April 20, 2009




As many of you know, the contest for my Carnival of Play is the opportunity to win one of three copies of this book. On this final day of the Carnival, I have just finished reading it and am ready to post my review. Overview In his new book Play, Stuart Brown provides an overview [...]

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Playing with One, Playing with Two

April 19, 2009




Sarah from Good Enough Mum blog suggested that I write a post about playing with more than one child and also provided me with a great link on the importance of one-on-one play. I thought the two ideas fit together really well, so I decided to combine them in one post. The importance of one-on-one [...]

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Baby Play! Carnival Posts (Part 6)

April 18, 2009




I have a friend that once confided in me that she didn’t like the newborn stage. She found it a bit tough (lack of sleep and stuff) and also just not that exciting. She couldn’t wait until her baby was ready to play. That is when the whole parenting thing became real and fun for [...]

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