SavvyMom
SavvyMom brings moms across Canada solutions to their everyday dilemmas, from green living to home organization, finding the best baby and mom products, planning birthday parties and entertaining the kids.
Dinner’s on the Table
We were recently inspired (well, blown away really) by a book we read that claimed one simple trick can improve the quality of our family life, our children’s chance of success in the world and our values as a society. And amazingly, it’s really simple too.
According to Miriam Weinstein, author of The Surprising Power of Family Meals, eating an everyday dinner with your family is a way to connect with loved ones and improve many aspects of family life. Recognizing that the pressures of today’s 24/7 world, the complications of single-parent and dual-income family households, extracurricular activities and peer pressure have threatened what used to be a universal ritual, she offers inspirational examples and strategies on how to bring family dinners back to our lives.
Ride, Baby, Ride
Wanna live life in the fast lane? Try a bike path or trail instead. You can let the kids go…
Paint, Hang or Stick
Fingerprints, ketchup smudges, crayon scribbles and, later, first names and absent-minded doodles surreptitiously scrawled in pencil. All of them cute…
Farming Fashion
Old McDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-OAnd on his farm he had a goat (and a cow) E-I-E-I-O With some cashmere…
Think Outside the (Lunch) Box
It’s a fantasy we all have at this time of year—sending our little ones off to school with the perfect lunch tucked away in their bags. It will be homemade, but with little effort. Kid-approved, while meeting Canada’s Food Guide recommendations. Tough enough to last in a hot cloakroom all morning, but sensitive to the surrounding students’ food allergies. Sanitary, but low on disposable packaging.
Meeting all those requirements five days a week? No wonder it’s often only a fantasy.
A Juicy Story
To juice or not to juice, that is the question. And the good news is we have the answer. A…
A Juicy Story
To juice or not to juice, that is the question. And the good news is we have the answer. A…
Buy. Sell. Then Buy Some More.
It never fails. We always crave new stuff this time of year. The sight of new binders and pencil cases,…
Detail Oriented
What is that awful smell? That’s how it starts. Then you scour your vehicle for the source. You find raisins,…
Details, Details
We like to think of that smelly, dirty vehicle which transports our children from place to place as not our…