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This is the price that I gladly pay for raising literate children.

Apr 8, 2019 0 Comments

We all know that reading to children increasing their vocabulary, encourages speech and language development and promotes healthy brain development. But did you know that it also creates unbreakable bonds…

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As it turns out that like my mother before me, elephants make me cry.

Jan 16, 2019 2 Comments

Long ago: When I was young, on Sunday nights at 6 p.m. on CBC (channel 5, cable 6 in Toronto), The Wonderful World of Disney would sometimes play a full-length…

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Parenting: I’ve learned that there are only degrees of failure. And that’s okay.

Jan 16, 2016 0 Comments

When I first became a mother, I was young. Not Loretta Lynn young, but young enough to still have a head full of delusions of grandeur and invincibility that only…

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You never realize how ignorant you are until you have kids

Apr 6, 2015 0 Comments

Sometimes I really wish I would have listened to and believed my parents when they told me (often) that no, I really did not yet have all of the answers.…

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