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All Around The World
Two years ago, passport and frequent flier number tucked in her nappy bag, our four-month-old daughter, Eloise, wound through the cobbled streets of Fez, Morocco strapped to my husband's chest. Slabs of raw meat hung from butchers' stalls and the smell of freshly dyed leather and Moroccan spices filled the ancient walled city. Our little "worm,...
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Quiz: Are You the Work-at-Home Type?
As a parent, working successfully from home requires the ability to balance two competing priorities both which are staring you in the face simultaneously. You also need to be able to work well with little or no face time with colleagues and supervisors. Think you have the chops to walk the tightrope alone and not fall off?? Take our quiz to see ho...
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Jump Start Language Skills
A nine-month old child is typically developing if he can speak even one word. With the benefit of proper scaffolding, he'll know fifty to one hundred words within just a few months. By two, he will speak around 320 words; a couple months later - over 570. Then the floodgates open. By three, he'll most likely be speaking in full sentences. By the ti...
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Desperate For A Good Night’s Sleep
I'll never forget the night my husband and I gave up on co-sleeping, probably because it was the first night we brought our baby into our bed. Our son was about four months old. Up until that point he had been spending his nights in an Arms' Reach mini-co-sleeper, a type of three-sided crib designed to attach to the side of our mattress. For fo...
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The Knock At The Door
After a few weeks, I couldn't take it anymore. I had tried polite refusal, contrived excuses, even pretending we weren't home. I knew I had to confront the situation head-on, but how exactly do you confront a six-year-old? Neighbour Girl lives across the street, and she used to walk into my house every weekend sans invitation, helping herself to...
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Better Than Family
I'm sitting at the playground watching Ruby do the rings. She has always been great at the rings — something I was never able to do as a kid. In typical Ruby fashion, she is encouraging other kids who think they can't do it to try, saying, "I was scared at first too, but I kept trying, and then I could do it!" The woman sitting next to me sig...
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Am I A Bumpaholic?
This morning, I awoke at seven a.m. to feed my hungry five-month-old, Clara. Soon after my husband left for work, her brothers Owen, three, and William, five, joined her on my bed and promptly began bickering — their favourite pastime these days besides nurturing their ever-growing collection of Pokemon cards. A while later, my older two sons Jac...
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Homeschool Drop-Out
Next month, I will drop my firstborn child off at the door of a school classroom for the first time. After I wave goodbye and bike home alone, we'll each begin secret lives: I'll spend my mornings writing stuff for grown-ups, while she makes friends, solves puzzles and gets in trouble in ways I'll never know. This is not how I planned it. I inten...
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