How to tell whether you should keep your kids home from school
Once kids start school, it’s encouraged that they learn to share, but they also learn how to share GERMS!
Take a nutrition break
There's no point in letting the arguments about good carbs versus bad carbs or about vegetable proteins versus animal proteins prevent us from doing the obvious things to help our kids eat better.
Cauliflower’s year
A hardy, locally grown vegetable, cauliflower was named one of the trendiest ingredients of 2015. Check out these recipes that shine the spotlight on cauliflower.
Why mom friends are an important part of motherhood
Whether you’re a new mama, a career mom or a stay at home mommy, mom friends are one of the most important parts of surviving motherhood.
Use instant rice for quick and creative meals
Fast food is healthy when it means food that is prepared quickly at home from natural ingredients.
Pondering the eradication of a sunflower forest
Something has been eating our sunflowers. Just as they start developing more leaves, they are snipped off at the ground.
How to give your child a green thumb
Fran Sorin considers instilling a love of nature in children at an early age critical.
Just say yes
There is a parenting principle that I've found quite useful but that I sometimes have a hard time practising. It goes like this – say “yes” when you can.
Growing up is hard to do
Fostering your child's inner adult when the stakes are low but the return can be high.
Kid and parent approved carrot cake
This kid and parent approved carrot cake is packed full of carrots and spices.
How to cover a cake with fondant
It may look complicated and impossible to do, but covering a cake with fondant is quite simple.
Big passions
One of the things that worries me about many of the teens and young adults I know is a real lack of passion about much of anything
Public Displays of affection
One of the things that I want to provide for my sons is the model of a healthy marriage.
Encouraging the laundry monster
Keeping kids’ rooms tidy can be challenging enough, but nothing irks me more than discarded clothes left lying on the floor or hidden in corners.
The ABCs and the birds and the bees
If only teaching our kids about their bodies were as simple as helping them learn the alphabet.
Older and wiser
Two of my kids have birthdays in March, which is a reminder that birthdays are another of those things that I find difficult as a parent.
Best dad ever
Keep a long memory for the good moments and keep a short memory for the bad ones.