One of my least favourite parenting responsibilities is settling one of the kids’ arguments by making the decision of who gets to do what first / last / whatever. I have enough decisions to make every day about things that actually matter and I JUST CAN’T EVEN with the “who gets to brush their teeth first or carry the book home from the ... Read More »
I saw a new show up on Netflix last week – One Day at a Time – and I thought I’d try it out. I watched one episode, then two, then three – which is, I think, the beginnings of a binge. I honestly have no idea what the target age for this show is, but I could imagine myself ... Read More »
Our four and five year olds don’t get a lot of screen time at this point in their lives. We have chosen to not yet implement a “Maximum Screen Time Per Day” rule yet, because then they would insist on using their screen time every day, and they often go days at a time without watching anything. I’m not saying ... Read More »
If there are children in the home, there’s a pretty good chance that there’s one thing that tops everything else on mom’s Mother’s Day wishlist: TIME. ALONE. Nope, not even with you, hubby. And not at home, where there’s laundry to do and lunches and suppers to make and endless To-Do lists that never get tackled when other people are at ... Read More »
I have a really hard time fitting everything into a day. There are so many things that I want to do, so many things that I need to do. There are the regular immediate household needs, like loading and unloading the dishwashers, clearing off the counter tops, tossing a load of laundry into the washer or dryer, and sweeping the crumbs ... Read More »
Once upon a time, we could avoid playing a certain tv show in the house by not allowing the tv to be on during its broadcast time. With the dawn of this ‘stream anything you want, any time you want’ age, however, came a particular and unforseen problem: our children now know that if Dora was on the tv the last ... Read More »
Two days ago as I was cleaning up the basement, I ran upstairs, puked in the bathroom, and then proceeded to spend the rest of the day half passed out on the couch, binge-watching The Paradise on Netflix as my children used my weakened body as a jungle gym. Right on the heels of that was the cold. It started ... Read More »
If you’ve ever watched The West Wing, you probably noticed that POTUS, Jed Bartlett, puts his coat on in a really strange manner. One second, it’s in front of him, the next second, it’s whipped over his head and the he’s wearing it. Last week, my daughter walked into the livingroom with her coat on. “Me DO IT!” she yelled. ... Read More »
I’m going to just come right out and say that I was an amazing babysitter. I’m not just saying that – I really was genuinely awesome. Families fought over me for New Years. They paid me to come to weddings & sit in hotel rooms to watch TV & monitor the napping baby. They bestowed upon me one of their ... Read More »
I’m 1st generation Canadian. My parents were both born in the Netherlands, and while Dutch was never a language spoken in our home (both my set so of grandparents wanted to learn English, so they only spoke English at home – meaning that my parents didn’t learn a lot of Dutch), we were no strangers to Dutch Traditions. Every year in ... Read More »
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