Family Fun

  • Building Memories

    Building Memories

    There's a new clutch of crafters in town and they're looking for a scrap. A scrap of paper that is — or a snippet of ribbon, an end piece of wallpaper; or anything else that can be used to embellish a page...

  • Making the Most of Dinnertime: Start When Children are Young

    Making the Most of Dinnertime: Start When Children are Young

    Picture Norman Rockwell, the classic American painter, alive today and commissioned to paint a scene of our generation’s family dinner...

  • Olympic Spirit Toronto

    Olympic Spirit Toronto

    Dundas Square is a totally re-vamped area of downtown Toronto that is centered at the corners of Dundas and Yonge streets. All four corners and their respective east/west/north and south outlets have undergone...

  • Cleaning with Kids Can be Fun!

    Cleaning with Kids Can be Fun!

    Housework, children, fun? Do these words belong in the same sentence? Sure but you need to add some creativity to the jobs! First we need to discuss how to assign the jobs. Job charts that rotate chores can be...

  • Make Movie Watching Enjoyable for All

    Make Movie Watching Enjoyable for All

    Looking for things to do with the family? What better way to enjoy a relaxing evening or a rainy afternoon than by watching a good movie together. However, choosing a movie that the whole family will enjoy is no...

  • Toronto Blue Jays Game

    Toronto Blue Jays Game

    We wrapped up our stop in Toronto by taking in the Blue Jays playing the Tampa Bay Devil Rays down at the Rogers Centre. Before the game even starts, there is a lot going on. Inside and outside the stadium...

  • Family Volunteering

    Family Volunteering

    With constant reminders of terrorism being talked about everywhere, attempts to return back to a normal routine has been a struggle for many Canadian families. But according to child experts, parents can give a...

  • family DISCOVERIES: Toronto

    family DISCOVERIES: Toronto

    Toronto is tops on the vacation hit list for most tourists from abroad and from within Canada. With so much to offer as Canada's biggest city, it is easy to see why this is the case. The Family and I made our...

  • Buying a Family Pet

    Buying a Family Pet

    Sooner or later, your child will probably ask for a pet. While owning a pet has many advantages such as teaching responsibility and fostering care and compassion in our children - pet owning is also an enormous...

  • family DISCOVERIES: The Muskokas

    family DISCOVERIES: The Muskokas

    Muskoka - the word alone conjures up images of beaches, relaxing in a deck chair and nights around a bonfire while the echoes of children's laughter pierces the air intermittently. For many who grew up in...

  • Re-connect with your child this summer

    Re-connect with your child this summer

    As another hectic school year comes to a close, summer holidays present the perfect opportunity to re-connect with your child. Doing activities together is an ideal way to spend quality time, rediscover what...

  • Family Meetings

    Family Meetings

    Kim and Josh meet every week without fail. It's a date they never break. It is their family meeting; the time that they set aside for each other to discuss the week's happenings and deal with the joys and...

  • Harvest Time

    Harvest Time

    Do you ever wonder if it's all worth it? We work so hard at being a good parent. How often do we get that feeling of total satisfaction, that we've done enough, the job's complete, it worked out perfectly, and...

  • Make Time for Teens, Young Adolescents

    Make Time for Teens, Young Adolescents

    Make Time -- Don't Mark Time with your young adolescent Is your family time-starved? Are you always trying to get things done when the reality is that one is never done? Over and over again, young...

  • The Road to Disney World: Part Four

    The Road to Disney World: Part Four

    Less than a week and the countdown is on for our trek to Disney World. To say we have been in a planning frenzy is putting it a little lightly! I thought planning our wedding 17 years ago took a lot of...




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