This question will continue to be answered in 50 different ways; it all comes down to the parent working situation and the child’s readiness; in some cases the parent’s readiness. Not having the luxury to extend your home stay with your child and going back to work is the only option; this can make the…
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Kids Winter Clothes – A Nightmare
Winter brings increased anxiety and almost “Dread”-like symptoms to most parents. It’s one thing for those without children to deal with extra layers, gloomy darkness, and bulky boots – but to worry about an additional set of clothing layers or two depending on how many kids you have is panic inducing. The amount of dirty…
The Importance of Role-Playing
In a way we are constantly role playing, pretending to like something or hate someone just to fit in. Complaining about things (when really we should be grateful for everything we already have) just to make conversation. Life is all about role playing, and it all started when we were kids. But role playing isn’t…
Posting Your Kids Pix Online
So this is actually quite a controversial topic, and is not a recent phenomenon as surprising as that may sound. Certainly with the prevalence of social media and photo sharing sites this has become a bigger issue, but since the advent of picture taking parents feel it is their right to take whatever picture of…
Theme Park With Kids Tips
The life altering event of having kids really does follow the cliché and alters your life in ways you hear about but would never think they would apply to you – because you’re too cool to be a lame parent. Well newsflash, you’re not, you will be a lame parent, but you sort of get…
Give Kids A Sense Of Growing Up
There are plenty of reasons why you should make sure your kids enjoy their childhood and try to protect their playful innocence. That comes with making sure that they enjoy what kids want to enjoy from riding a bike to watching cartoons and snacking on junk food once in a while. But as they grow…
The Importance Of Travel Journals For Kids
My son is one of the few lucky children I know who has travelled to many places early on and I for one have seen it benefit him immensely. Leas of which I think travels have long term impact on kids and how they evolve as they grow including: Creative thinking in figuring out how…
Play Dates Are For Kids; Not Their Parents
Except for certain cases, most kids are the opposite of antisocial. Unlike their parent who, for many reasons, want and need to be in solitude, especially once their lives are taken over by the kids. Parents often underestimate the value of social interaction for kids, that’s where they learn body language interpretation, picking up on…
They Are Always Watching/Listening
No it’s not the CIA or FBI, the KGB or Mi5 – not that they aren’t already all watching you along with Google, Apple and Facebook. But it’s closer to home…..it’s your little kids. Their capacity to absorb and mimic everything you do is astonishing. It shows itself in the most random of time when…
Appreciation for family and traditions
One thing I’m always struggling to instill in my child is a sense of family and tradition. Whatever culture or tradition it might be, typically for those of us who are first generation immigrants this is very agonising as we want them to experience and maintain a sense of our former “home” and what makes…
