The health card. The social insurance number. The birth certificate. The passport. Whether you are on your first or your…

The sandwich generation: it’s not really a great name especially in light of the low carb trend these days. But…

Signing Time is a series of videos designed for baby to school aged audiences (mom and dad need to pay attention too) that teaches the principals of American Sign Language (ASL).

The funny way they say their new words (tinger for finger, goggie for doggie in our case); the pride you felt when she learned to do the monkey bars (backwards no less!); the emotions you were feeling on the way to the hospital to deliver him that hot July night, the favourite ice cream flavour of Summer of ‘07….
As we near the end of another summer of fun and discovery with the kids, no matter their age, you might think you’ll remember these adorable, funny and special things forever but somehow along comes another day and another memory and they get tucked back into the nether regions of the mom brain.

We may not be living in caves anymore but sometimes it feels like we are back in the days of…

No one ever talks about it like this.
It’s not that they don’t want to, and they might even start to, it’s just that they don’t really have time to get into it, between the diaper changes, the soccer practices and all the other interruptions that come along with the business of motherhood.

The brilliantly titled and hot-off-the press (just yesterday) Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth About Motherhood (Key Porter Books, $32.95) is the first anthology of Canadian writing about motherhood and it dares to start the conversation about the huge transformation women experience when they become mothers

You know it’s time to find something new for your family to do when the kids are getting bored of…

Okay, maybe we aren’t quite as committed to local eating as the now-infamous founders of the 100-Mile-Diet. Tell our kids…