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  • Deals and Steals for Canadian Families

    Deals and Steals for Canadian Families

    Free OnlineFamily.Norton trial OnlineFamily.Norton is a new service that gives parents the tools to protect kids online and connect with their online lives, available for free until January 1...

  • Top 7 Tips for the Aspiring Homeowner

    Top 7 Tips for the Aspiring Homeowner

    Home ownership is certainly a blessing. Unfortunately, it also contains the seeds of what can be financial misfortune, perhaps never more graphically depicted than in a 1986 Steven Spielberg movie, The Money Pit...

  • Simple Living

    Simple Living

    Simple living can mean different things to different people. For many it means simplifying your life so that you have time to enjoy it. Some people live more frugally so that they can afford to work less...

  • Your Family: Coping with Cutbacks During Fragile Financial Times

    Your Family: Coping with Cutbacks During Fragile Financial Times

    Normal parents want to make sure that their children don’t go without the necessities of life. However, many normal parents also feel guilty...

  • Comeback kids: When mothers re-enter the work force

    Comeback kids: When mothers re-enter the work force

    NEW YORK (AP) For some mothers who took time off after childbirth, deciding to go back to work is the easy part. The real challenge is...

  • The Nanny Chase

    The Nanny Chase

    Julia returned to work a couple of weeks ago, after being on maternity leave. Benjamin is now in daycare and Julia is finding it very difficult to juggle her schedule, and Benjamin's schedule to accommodate the...

  • Parenting in the Home Office

    Parenting in the Home Office

    When my husband and I launched our home-based business a few years back, the local newspaper sent a reporter over to take a picture of my partner and I spending "quality time" in our home office with...

  • Born to Shop

    Born to Shop

    Spending money is one of the easiest things to do. Spending wisely is not quite as easy. We've all bought things that we've looked at later and thought, now why in heaven did I buy that? The cookies smelled...

  • How To Get Your Children Brand Free

    How To Get Your Children Brand Free

    Those of you that have children know what an excursion to the local mall or supermarket can be like. If you're not careful, this simple trip can easily become a wallet draining experience. How often have...

  • Summertime Challenges for Work At Home Moms

    Summertime Challenges for Work At Home Moms

    Summertime presents a challenge each year for home-based working moms around the country. Continuing to run one's business while keeping the...

  • The Three-Ring Circus: 5 Tips for Single Moms Who Work

    The Three-Ring Circus: 5 Tips for Single Moms Who Work

    If you're a single mom who works, you probably don't have a lot of time to read, so let's get right to the point. In addition to your salaried...

  • How to Tell Your Boss You're Pregnant

    How to Tell Your Boss You're Pregnant

    You kicked your coffee habit weeks ago, but your boss still hasn't clued into the fact that you're pregnant. You're wondering how-and when-you should share your big news at work. While there's no "right...

  • Searching for Canada's Top Mompreneur

    Searching for Canada's Top Mompreneur

    A PR consultant, a successful retailer, a web designer, a kids clothing designer… what do all these successful Canadian business women have in common? They’re all Mompreneurs™, united by...

  • Saving Money

    Saving Money

    Are you planning on a "New Year's Resolution" to start saving more money in 2008? Like any resolution, unless some action is taken on your part, nothing will ever change. For example, if your...

  • When should I start saving for my baby's future post-secondary education?

    When should I start saving for my baby's future post-secondary education?

    There is no time like the present! As a parent or a concerned adult you are going to have to consider your families educational financial...




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