If you have been reading the posts for a few months now, you may have read the post where I mentioned that my husband and I were trying for baby number 3.  I’m not in a huge rush to have the third baby and I have a laid back approach to it.  If it happens, [...]

I was swimming with my son yesterday when we began talking about history. He was asking me questions about Indians and how we came to be in Canada. I was answering his questions while I strained to recall all the social studies that I had taken over the years. At one point I mentioned Europeans [...]

I have mentioned in previous posts that I and my children are foster parents to a child in Kenya.  You can read the article here. 
We have been sponsors now since February of this year and although we haven’t really received anything from being foster parents, it has been a great experience for both myself and [...]

If you remember a few weeks ago, I started a post on the Theorists of Child Development and by the end of a pretty long post, I had only covered Freud and some of his theories. I did hint that I was going to move on to Erik Erikson in a few weeks and [...]

I mentioned a while back that I was going to do a cheat sheet on Volcanoes since I had a stage in my son’s development where all he wanted to talk about was Volcanoes and more specifically, Pompeii. Today, that’s right, I’m going to give you a quick cheat sheet on Volcanoes.
When it comes to [...]

If you breastfeed your baby, chances are there will come a time when you need to store breast milk. This can be when you return to work or even if you are only planning a few hours out.
Storing breastmilk can be one of the most confusing things for new mother’s and it is good to [...]

Well, it has finally been decided that my experiment with the Praying Mantis egg sac has failed. We didn’t get any Praying Mantids running around and I think the kids were a little disappointed. I mean, this has been an ongoing project for over 6 months.
Still, even with the failure of the experiment, [...]

I have found over the years that I have become a person that will leaf through travel brochures and gaze longingly at planes as they pass by overhead. I think to myself, “What wonders will I see if I travelled to faraway destinations? What would I experience?”
I think everyone has those thoughts, well, [...]

This is an excellent quote that I would like to share with everyone.
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children.
One of these is roots - the other wings.”
-Hodding Carter (1907-1972)

Today’s topic is one that is a lot more sombre than other posts that I have made previously and it is definitely more serious.  It deals with teaching your child about good touch vs bad touch and how they can protect themselves from predators.  This for me is one of the scariest parts of parenthood; [...]