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Opinion

Upfront: What do we really need

By City Parent Staff
November 21, 2019
1.52k

We all have too much stuff. We have so much stuff in fact that there’s an industry built around organizing that stuff for us and another that provides plastic bins of all sizes in which to store it. In this issue

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Opinion

Room for everyone and so much more

By City Parent Staff
September 3, 2019
1.41k

By Christine Davis The hunt for the ideal family vehicle is different for each family and at each stage. Ours has been content with a sedan and a small SUV since becoming a family of four, but as the kids grow

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Opinion

Deciding the Future

By City Parent Staff
August 6, 2019
1.45k

In less than a month my eldest will start high school, and I’m having some trouble wrapping my head around that. It’s not that I’m terribly worried about him. He’s a level-headed kid, with good friends, and lots of family support.

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Opinion

Real reading

By City Parent Staff
July 12, 2019
1.71k

As a writer and a publisher, I’ll admit that I can be a bit picky about books, but when it comes to the kids books I’ve seen recently, I think I’m justified in being a little disappointed. It’s not all books

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Opinion

Something They’ll Never Forget

By City Parent Staff
July 10, 2019
1.38k

I took my two younger kids to see the Toronto Raptors’ championship parade and rally in Nathan Phillips Square. We had to get up at 5 a.m. to catch the train to Toronto, then walk from Union Station to the square,

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Opinion

Other people’s kids

By City Parent Staff
June 4, 2019
1.49k

It seems I’ve hit a new stage as a work-from-home parent, one where my kids are old enough not to be around the house during the day so other parents see me as an ideal target to hit up for

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Opinion

Learning to Succeed

By City Parent Staff
May 15, 2019
1.53k

My youngest son decided to grow a garden this year. He arrived at this decision while watching me turn soil for my garden, and then sow a bunch of kale, which is about the only thing hardy enough for me

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Opinion

Cringey Parenting

By City Parent Staff
May 9, 2019
1.55k

I’m lame, and I know it. ‘Cringey’, is the word my kids prefer, meaning that I’m embarrassing, uncool, and unhip. If you need proof, the very fact that I use words like ‘lame’ and ‘unhip’ is undeniable proof that I

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Opinion

A Child’s Perspective

By City Parent Staff
April 29, 2019
1.66k

Part of being a child is having a deeply limited perspective. That’s not to say that our adult perspectives aren’t limited in many ways as well, of course, but for a child, with so very little experience of the world,

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Opinion

Play Dating

By City Parent Staff
April 24, 2019
1.74k

By Cheryl Maguire When I married my husband, I thought that I was done dating. It turns out I was wrong. I went on several dates with people I met at the library or the Internet. They were playdates for the

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Opinion

Making New Traditions

By City Parent Staff
April 22, 2019
1.39k

Annual holidays have fallen into a fairly settled routine for my extended families. We haven’t really had any big adjustments since my wife and I and our siblings got married, moved out, and started having kids, so we’ve had about

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Opinion

Who Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

By City Parent Staff
April 19, 2019
1.46k

Adults are constantly asking kids what they want to be when they grow up. It’s the default conversation when an adult doesn’t know what else to say, just like talking about the weather with the person beside us at the

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Opinion

Dating Drama

By City Parent Staff
April 15, 2019
1.71k

I always knew that the day would come when I’d need to help my kids negotiate the emotions and drama of romantic relationships. I just didn’t think it would come so soon. Over the past few days, we’ve had one ex-girlfriend

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Opinion

A No-Pet Policy

By City Parent Staff
April 2, 2019
1.45k

I’ve always had a firm “no-pets” policy in our house. My feeling is that three children and various longterm housemates constitute a sufficient menagerie for any one household. I don’t need additional dependents that will never go to the bathroom

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Opinion

Get It All Off Your Chest

By City Parent Staff
March 28, 2019
1.38k

I met an old friend in the grocery store today. We don’t see each other that often, and when we do it’s mostly about getting our kids together, but we have lots in common as parents. We both have three

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Opinion

Getting creative

By City Parent Staff
March 20, 2019
1.61k

I think everyone needs to be creative. Now, I can almost hear a whole portion of readers collectively shaking their heads, eyebrows raised, muttering to themselves, “Well, he’s certainly never seen me with a paint brush,” but that isn’t really what

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Opinion

To be what they want to be

By City Parent Staff
March 14, 2019
1.49k

You know how often kids change their minds about what profession they might want to pursue as adults. In fact there are plenty of people who are still changing their minds as adults. So I don’t read anything too specific

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Being the best parent possible

By City Parent Staff
September 5, 2018
1.57k

By David Essel Wouldn’t it be great if we could all be the best parents possible by simply following a few words of advice? David Essel attempts to set us on the right path with his words of wisdom featured in this

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Opinion

Coping with the Village

By City Parent Staff
May 1, 2018
1.4k

I’m sure you’ve all heard the cliche that it takes an entire village to raise a child, and I agree with this. I really do. I appreciate so much that I live in a neighbourhood where I know, not only

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Opinion

Discipline vs. punishment

By City Parent Staff
April 26, 2018
2.32k

By Christine Davis Discipline is the art of teaching kids to behave properly. What it is not, says Katherine Firestone, founder of The Fireborn Institute, is punishment. “The purpose of discipline is to teach self-discipline so children can then learn to

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