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Jul 20 2008
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 [...]
Jun 09 2008
As I have mentioned in earlier posts, my son and his dad are making a model together for a contest that is being put on by the local museum. The model that he chose to do was the Battle of Vimy Ridge and in particular Hill 145.
It has been an adventure and after 2 [...]
Apr 30 2008
Ok, after yesterday’s slightly heavy, all right heavy, post, I thought that I would do something a little lighter. Model making!
If you remember, my son and husband are working on a historical model about Vimy Ridge for a contest the local museum is having. This is a pretty big endeavor but they are enjoying it [...]
Apr 15 2008
You may not think that history is a very important subject to teach your young child but you are completely wrong. History is just another way to broaden your child’s horizons and to give to them world’s that seem completely unimaginable.
When my oldest became focused on Egypt, he couldn’t believe how different the world had [...]
If you can remember far enough back, I wrote both part one and two of this series on Theorists of Child Development. My first post was about Freud and my second was aboutErikson. Today, I am going to take us closer to the end of this series and discuss Piaget. If you are not sure [...]
Today it was official, we took down the pool so it has to be the last day of summer. Okay, maybe the last day of summer is officially on September 21st and the last day of summer vacation isn’t until Monday but you can definitely feel the days winding down into a new schedule.
Already my [...]
It’s probably a little early to be dreaming about snow but with the muggy weather I had today, I’m almost ready for winter. Well, almost ready…okay, not really, but the thought of winter made me think that it would be an excellent time to share my recipe for Whipped Snow.
This is a fun little recipe [...]
Welcome to part two of buying a layette for your baby. If you have been with me for a while, you will probably remember the first post about buying a layette. I know that usually this is just one article but since I am writing a few points about every item, I decided to break [...]
It has been a while since I wrote a cheat sheet for That Parent Place so I figured it was time to do so again. Right now, I am the proud snail-sitter of about 10 snails. They will be going back into a nice spot in my yard very soon, not the garden where they [...]