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Be Happier in the New Year

Is this going to be your year? As we leave another year behind and turn to a fresh new year, ...
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Bucking the Boxing Day Trend

Alternatives to the Boxing Day shopping trend Do you go shopping on Boxing Day? Battle the crowds for a deal? ...
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Mom & Dad’s Holiday Survival Guide – Top 7 Tips

1. Take physical safety precautions: Young children are at-risk of eating poisonous holiday plants (mistletoe, poinsettias, and holly berries). Keep ...
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5 Ways To Reduce Holiday Stress

Are those bells ringing in your ears a sign of holiday cheer or a sign of too much stress? Don't ...
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Hot Holiday Drink Recipes

After a night out caroling with friends and/or relatives, invite everyone back to your house to help trim your Christmas ...
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How to Keep Children Safe While Enjoying their Favorite Playground

Back in the early 1980's, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) published the first edition of what is now ...
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Beating the Holiday Stress, Stepmom Style

The holidays are fast approaching. I can hear the chaos and calamity right behind me now, can you? My instinct ...
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10 Tips for School Success

Success in school doesn’t happen without parental support. Whether your son happily skips off to kindergarten or your daughter trudges ...
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Back to School Anxiety – Tips to Help Kids With School Stress

Back to school can be an exciting and anxious time for our kids. After summer holidays, they are not always ...
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I Know Nothing! Parenting in the Teen Years

Have you ever said the wrong thing when dealing with your teenager or their friends. Do you say things that ...
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Help! My Seven Year Old Won’t Eat!

I can still remember when my son, now 7 years old, was about 1 1/2 years old. Every night at ...
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7 Easy Ideas for Organizing Kids Artwork

In school, kids are encouraged to create, draw, colour, paint and build. These activities can certainly stimulate children, and help ...
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Parenting in the Middle Years

Ages 5 -12 You won’t see many news reports on children between the ages of five to twelve. Hardly any ...
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Building Muscle During Pregnancy: the How and Why

Exercise during pregnancy is important. It not only helps you build the muscle strength and stamina needed for labour, but ...
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Grading Your Child’s Friends

Peer Grading is a parenting tool that parents use to grade their child's friends to protect them from negative influences ...
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Helping Your Child Deal With Grief

Recently, a close friend died very unexpectedly. Linda was in good health, a very vivacious woman: full of life. In ...
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Bath Time with Baby

Those first few days home with a newborn can be a scary time for any parent. You question everything and ...
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How Far Along Are You? Months, Lunar Months, Weeks, Days, Trimesters

Months? Lunar months? Weeks? Days? Trimesters? How far along am I anyway? If you are confused, you're not alone. While ...
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Is it Spying or Just Good Parenting?

Is it spying or just good parenting? Monitoring kids and their cell phone activity. We have all heard a lot ...
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Father’s Day Barbecue Ideas

Father’s day is coming up and many women and kids are wondering just how to make the day special for ...
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Secrets to Working and Pumping

When I had my first son I hadn't planned to go back to work. I suddenly had to return to ...
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A Single Mom’s Mother’s Day Survival Kit

By Catie Hayes In a perfect world, motherhood would be universally valued, the phrase 'just a mom' would not exist, ...
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Preventing Children’s Deaths in Hot Cars

A parent’s worst nightmare is something happening to their child. Compound that nightmare by knowing it was preventable and was ...
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St. Patrick’s Day Drinks for the Family

Green beer is a favorite of many on St. Patrick’s Day. There are also a lot of fun non-alcoholic beverages ...
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Tips for Helping Bullies

Standing up and letting it be known that you will not tolerate bullying and helping the victim is a great ...
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Bullies Need Help Too

Often the focus of anti-bullying campaigns is the victims of bullying (and that's a good thing!). But did you know ...
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Making Time for Romance

Connecting with your partner emotionally and physically is a soothing balm for our frazzled lives. A foot massage and a ...
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Cyber Bullying

Bullying occurs everywhere– in our schools, our workplaces and on the playgrounds. A new place for bullies to torment their ...
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Bullying – When the Teacher is the Bully

There is a lot of talk about bullying these days -- and thank goodness there is! I have been heading ...
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Tips for Helping Children with Bullying

Tips for a child who bullies others: 1. Take every incident or report of bullying behaviour seriously: don’t dismiss any ...
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Happy Holidays with Teens

There is no doubt that children "make" the holidays. There is nothing like the smile on a child's face, as ...
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Choosing Christmas Gifts For Your Child

The other day a friend and I were enjoying a cup of tea when she picked up a brochure from ...
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Top Tips For Potty Training Accidents

It is inevitable that your child will have accidents when he or she is being potty trained. Be supportive, even ...
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Diapers – Wet or Dry Pail Method

Cloth diapering has come a long way! However, unless you use a diaper service, you will need to launder the ...
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Beyond Morning Sickness – Hyperemesis Gravidarum

Typically, 3 out of 4 women will experience some degree of morning sickness with pregnancy. For a small percentage of ...
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Beet Recipes for Beet Lovers (or even the haters!)

Love beets, but don't know quick ways to cook them? Check out these quick beet recipe ideas. Beets are a ...
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