My kids don’t play hockey – so we aren’t exposed to “obnoxious-sport-parent-mentality” – that what I call parents who like to be unofficial coaches from the stands – who like to yell at 15 year old referees because they disagree with a call – that sort of parent (I’ve “heard” that “obnoxious-sport-parent-mentality” is often at…
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Parent Club Review: PC Home Grown (+ Recipe)
Buying ‘home grown’ (i.e. foods grown locally) is an important thing. Imported foods have food miles on them (food miles = the number of miles that item has travelled from farm to your table — if an apple is picked in New Zealand and is flown to Canada — it travels about 7,300 air miles…
Parent Club Review: WeMuv™
The What: “With a specially designed WeMuv™ pedometer and virtual travel passport, members accumulate MuvPoints to navigate and explore 2D animated ‘real’ world destinations. Members gain bonus points playing mini-games and trivia throughout their virtual journey. Trivia games provide fun facts on topics of health and nutrition, world geography, culture, earth and social sciences and…
Parent Club tips for BACK TO SCHOOL
Don’t freak your kids out. Don’t over talk school. Don’t cry in front of them. Don’t spill your worries to other parents in earshot of your children. You need to be their rock. Be a rock! Short and sweet. Don’t hang around the classroom. Don’t try to talk to the teacher. Make drop off short…
School Nerves
“Will they like me?” “Am I dressed cool enough?” “Will I have a friend?” School nerves are twittering…um…no…it’s not the kids…it’s me…about the other parents in the school yard. I swear it feels like gr. 9 all over again…the little fish in the big pond – the odd duck out – strange. I don’t “do”…
Looking Forward
Sorry to have not updated since Mourning a Baby (which I happen to write on my/our wedding anniversary). And no, I haven’t been wallowing in that mourning (that post looked very wallowing when I looked at it this morning). I’ve been looking forward (which I think is healing – at least for me). I/we have…
Mourning a Baby
I wasn’t going to write this. I thought it too raw, too personal, too painful to put out into the blogosphere…but it was actually my prince who said I should blog about it. We have both received so much support from friends (twitter & non-twits alike), family and co-workers. They volunteered personal stories about 1st…
Smarties Winners…
Random Integer GeneratorHere are your random numbers: 6 11 Timestamp: 2009-08-21 13:59:54 UTC(http://www.random.org/integers) Congrats to #6:Amy Bronee said… Tweeted! August 14, 2009 4:03 PM Congrats to # 11Anonymous said… Smarties are great because…they’re super yummy, peanut-free, colourful yet are made with no artificial colours and I love the tiny snack boxes for a little treat…
Readers share fly trap
Thanks to the Parent Club reader who e-mailed in this tip: I had a friend over for tea the other evening and I was complaining about the mass amounts of fruit flies I have been noticing this year…last year did not seem so bad! I know you can get fruit fly traps from Lee Valley…
Parent Club on the mend
On the mend from Time Out for Parent Club… Mom being out of commission health-wise is like a mini-tsunami – it creates waves of shock, devastation and a re-building effort. (i.e. the shock of the kids “but who is going to take care of us?”, devastation of the schedule “um…what’s for dinner”, re-building effort “how…
Time Out for Parent Club
Despite looking for Super Mom Inspiration which led to Re-Calculating Parenting…despite it all…I’m headed into some unexpected surgery today (yep – the hospital kind). While I’m away (just for a bit – I’m far too addicted to the blogosphere to be gone very long) feel free to leave reading suggestions, virtual gifts of chocolate layer…
Parent Club Review: Bagel Os
The Parent Club Test Panel has been at it again… The What: Brand new, bite-size bagels filled with gourmet cream cheese. The delicious bites come in four flavours (herb and garlic, plain, blueberry and smoked salmon)and are kosher and completely nut-free. They’re available across Canada in Shoppers Drug Mart, Wal-Mart and Giant Tiger. The Review:…