All About Parenting

  • How to Have a Happy Marriage When You're Busy Being Parents

    How to Have a Happy Marriage When You're Busy Being Parents

    Is your marriage everything you ever hoped it could be? Or has it been pushed down your list of priorities since having children? Let's face...

  • To Marry or Not to Marry

    To Marry or Not to Marry

    Dear Mr. Dad: My girlfriend and I are about to become parents. She wants to get married before the baby is born, but I don’t really see the point. Can’t unmarried parents be just as committed as married...

  • Tips For First-time Parents Dealing with Holiday Stress

    Tips For First-time Parents Dealing with Holiday Stress

    As new parents, the constant feeding and changing that comes with having a baby takes priority over everything - including preparing and enjoying...

  • Open Adoption in Canada

    Open Adoption in Canada

    Open AdoptionYou hear it all the time: this couple or that one had an open adoption. But what exactly does that mean, and how does an open adoption differ from, say, a private adoption? In a nutshell, open...

  • Growing a Greener Family

    Growing a Greener Family

    Instilling a sense of environmental responsibility is good for your children - and their future. Your kids absorb all of the values that you live as a family. That means you'll exert an influence just by making...

  • The Power of Choice

    The Power of Choice

    Would you like to get your kids to willingly cooperate? Stop the daily battles? Teach your kids valuable life skills? If your answer is Yes! Yes! Yes! then read on... There are so many things we must...

  • Clipboard Magic

    Clipboard Magic

    Back to school means back to life for most families. After a break from homework and activities, we’re ready to dive in and get ourselves back on schedule. Staying organized can be a challenge as we try to...

  • How Not To Upstage Your Child Star

    How Not To Upstage Your Child Star

    Let’s face it. Stage moms and dads have, over the years, gotten a bad rap. Some deserve the mommy/daddy-dearest moniker and wear it proudly; others are simply trying to do their best to help Tammy or Timmy...

  • Online Community Safety Tips for Teens

    Online Community Safety Tips for Teens

    Unless your teens are total strangers to the Internet, they know about websites like Myspace.com, Facebook.com or Xanga.com.What's the allure of these and hundreds of other free online communities? Teens flock to...

  • Social Networking

    Social Networking

    Social networking websites are among the fastest growing phenomena on the Internet. And it is tweens and teens who are driving that growth. Among the most popular social networking sites are MySpace, Friendster...

  • Quiz: Am I a Normal Parent?

    Quiz: Am I a Normal Parent?

    Prior to writing AM I A NORMAL PARENT?, Sara Dimerman, our CPO Child and Family Therapist, conducted research with parents to figure out what was most typical, or normal. The majority of parents that responded to...

  • Depleted Mother Syndrome

    Depleted Mother Syndrome

    Parenting can wreck your life. One morning a few months after our second child, Laurel, was born -- we'd been up much of the night (again) and were blotto with fatigue -- my wife looked at me and said...

  • Talking to our Children About Sexuality

    Talking to our Children About Sexuality

    Easy!! How can talking about sex with your child possibly be easy? At first it may not be but with continued discussion and use of proper language it will get easier especially if your child is still young...

  • Special Moments

    Special Moments

    ‘Ring around the Rosy. Pocket full a posy!” my two-and-a-half year old daughter sings happily as she pours a cup of pretend tea for me. Today is going to be a more productive day, I think as I type...

  • Baby Talk

    Baby Talk

    According to Health Canada, good health depends on more than a good health care system; factors such as having support networks and camaraderie with other people can also affect your overall health and...




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