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.
Summer Smorgasbord
You’ve heard the eco-slogans: slow food, eat local, reduce your carbon footprint. We say choose to be healthy, wealthy and…
The Other Island
You know it’s time to find something new for your family to do when the kids are getting bored of…
Get Fresh
Okay, maybe we aren’t quite as committed to local eating as the now-infamous founders of the 100-Mile-Diet. Tell our kids…
Playing with Coffee
What everyone knows: kids need a place to play and moms need a place to drink coffee. What everyone doesn’t…
Playing Footsie
Summer feet. It’s a curse. Just when we want our tip-toes to look tip-top, our dry, cracked heels are more…
No Place Like Home
Been there. Done that. Check, check, check…yawn. Yes, it’s easy to develop a bad attitude about your home town. All…
Good Golly
Top three activities to avoid doing with your children in tow: Shopping Shopping Shopping Ok, so we know that it’s…
Equipment Renaissance
There’s definitely been the dawning of a new age when it comes to baby and toddler gear. Innovative designers have introduced better versions of the old primary-coloured plastic equipment parents need, and for that we’re ever thankful. With all this new gear, we’re thinking you might even want to change it up when Baby #2 or #3 comes along.
The Better High Chair
The gang at Boon have done it again with the Flair Chair, a revolutionary new highchair with some great new features. It’s got all the important safety features such as a five-point harness and a restraining post, but what we really love is the stylish pedestal stand and the effortless height adjustment (think barber chair—the pneumatic life mechanism makes it easy to adjust to any height, including under the table). The best part? The seamless seat—no cracks or crevices—makes clean-up easy. Because crevices are definitely menaces when it comes to drips, drops, and crumbs. Available from L’il Niblets and Baby Sprouts and Modern Baby Barn and other retailers across Canada ($319)
Hand It to You
Scrub a dub dubThree men in a tub
And who do you think they be?
We’ll tell you who they be—they be germs! And they are not just in the bathroom (where most people think they live). They are actually much more abundant than that, and particularly are all over the human hand. Adults and kids alike, we pick them up from other people we interact with, surfaces we touch, and animals we come in contact with. Yup, pretty much everywhere we go and everything we do, we are coming into contact with the nasty germs that need to be scrub a dub dubbed. As usual, we have a simple solution. Wash your hands with soap and water…and often. Here’s the 411.
Join the Circus
Want to put some fresh fun into your day? Take time off from visiting the park or the neighbourhood pool…