This is my 1,001 post on Parent Club (it deserves a cookie in celebration n’est pas?). So here are some Parent Club fun facts (pay attention – this might be on a trivial pursuit card one day!) The original Parent Club logo (2007) had a lighthouse on it. A beacon to families everywhere perhaps? No, the theme…
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Joyful Moments
I confess…I make the HUGE mistake of not living in the moment (my bad). When I’m at the swings with the kids, I’m mentally making a grocery list. When we are having dinner together, I quiz them down about where I’m supposed to be chauffeuring them over the weekend. When it’s just me and the…
5 Must Own Items For Moms
1) Comfortable jeans – With so many jean brands in the marketplace finding your “perfect” fit is simpler. Choose a higher rise and avoid the low rise jeans. Think comfort and ease. You need to be able to move around with your little one in hand. My favourite style jean is a boot cut dark denim jean. …
Breast Vs Formula Feeding
The great debate: Breast Vs Bottle feeding. A heated topic. In my personal opinion, our role as parents is to feed our children and how one goes about doing that should be their own choice…without judgement. I’ll be transparent here. I breastfed. And I bottle fed. The best breastfeeding advice I received: Keep at it (from a fellow Mom). The best formula feeding…
How To Make Cake Pops
How to make cake pops…Step 1 – Get a cake Step 2 – frosting Step 3 – using your hands or a food processor blend the cake into a sand-like consistency. Add 1/2 tub of frosting and blend together. Step 4 – roll the cake and frosting mixture into balls (about the size of a…
Parent Club Profiles: Raffi
Raffi Name please: Raffi Cavoukian Your Website? I have two: www.childhonouring.org www.raffinews.com What’s your specialty? Music. Kids. Communication. What’s your shameless plug? My legacy work, Centre For Child Honouring. Join our global movement to respect Earth & Child. Best thing about your work: It’s a work of service in a diversity of themes I’m passionate about. Parent…
Universal Studios Review
THE WHAT: Universal Studios (Hollywood, California) THE STUDIO TOURS: The Studio Tour with King Kong 360 3-D is the main must-see at Universal Studios Hollywood. Long, extended, golf-cart-like tour buses take you, open air, along a tour like none other. Comedian Jimmy Fallon is the new video host. TIP: sit in the middle section of the…
How to host a playdate
The best way, in my opinion, to host a playdate for babies is to keep it unstructured. Why unstructured? Because the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry (to quote Robert Burns – the writer). What Robert means (and so do I) is that plans never go as planned…especially when children are…
Cineplex Movies $2.50
THE WHAT: Each week beginning February 18, 2012 (on going to April 29th) a different family movie will be offered exclusively at participating Cineplex theatres on Saturday mornings at 11 a.m. (local time) at a discounted admission price of$2.50 for all ages. A portion of all ticket sales will be donated to the Starlight Children’s Foundation. THE…
Parent Club Tip
Have the kids compile lunch and dinner menu suggestions for a week. Then when you go shopping you have an idea of what their taste buds are hankering for. As long as it is good for them and they will eat it what is the problem? (Do insist on at least one veggie and one…
Parent Club Tip
Have a bunch of kids with runny noses? Having trouble keeping track of whose kleenx is whose? Wipe a child’s nose and put the kleenx in their hoodie. Kids forget the kleenx is there (out of sight out of mind). And it helps you keep track of whose kleenx is whose. I saw a caregiver,…
Indoor Boredom Busters for the Cold Winter Months
But baby it’s cold outside! That classic song rings true in these cold winter months…however baby is less than understanding that he can’t go out. How do you bust the winter boredom?! Indoor activities – fun, engaging, activities – whether you need to kill some time between naps or play away the afternoon – I’ve got…