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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...
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What is a Parent?
According to Websters, a parent is: "A father or a mother; he or she that produces young". What really is apparent, is that this definition leaves out some very important elements of being a parent in...
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Everything Worth Knowing I Learned from my Kids
Through my vast experiences as a parent, I have gained knowledge and wisdom well beyond my years. Okay, I’ve only had kids for three years...
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School Daze: Looking Back
I grew up in a secular household, but there is one line from the Bible that I will never forget "They who go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters..." It was my first day at school, grade one...
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Kids Benefit from Independence
I have just learned something new about my 78 year old French Canadian and, frankly, I am shocked. I learned -for the first time, just the other day, that she spent her early years, from six to sixteen...
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Remote Control
It's a rather humble piece of technology, the television remote control; a slim rectangular box with a few buttons on top and a few batteries within. Like many technological devices, it was designed to save time ...
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Fat Chance
Being a parent, these days, can make you feel like a fish. A splish-splashing salmon, to be specific, forced to gamely swim upstream against the currents of society to guarantee the safe propagation of the...
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Mums the Word - On Being Thankful
Sherwood and I asked the girls what they were thankful for. We gave them a blank piece of paper and sent them to the playroom to make a list. It didn't take them long. They emerged, hands over their...
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Mums the Word - On Hair Growth
With Christmas just around the corner, I am anticipating the wish list from my two young girls. Studying the chaos on Ash's bedroom floor, I wonder what they are hoping to add to their toy infested rooms. The...
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Salute to Site CPO
A night on the computer at site CPO Surrounded by friends that I once didn't know We chat and we listen, we laugh and we cry We even stare at each other when we can't say goodbye We look forward to Monday to see a...
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Mums the Word - On First Time Parents
The other day my brother and sister-in-law came for a visit. They are expecting their firstborn. I had been waiting for this moment for more than three years. My basement had boxes and crates of baby stuff...
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352 Tips for Mothers
Cut off the crusts. Make real cocoa. Hang their drawings on the fridge. Say the clay ashtray is what you always wanted. Sing silly songs. Make goofy faces. Let them take off the training wheels. Remind the Tooth...
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Toy Trouble
As the holiday season approaches, veteran parents clearly recognize what this time of year brings.They have parental perspective because they are aware of OPP. That's better known as Other Peoples Presents...
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Kid Juggling
Warning: The following feat of daring was done in an uncontrolled situation by unprofessionals. Please, try this at home. After hours of labour, you finally have that wiggling, jiggling bundle of joy in...
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Foster Parents Are Special
About two years ago, my husband Carl and I, along with our teenage son, decided to become foster parents. It was an easy decision because we love children. We were parents of a teenager, so how difficult...
