The Moose Fever that befell what seems to be half the NorthernVoice attendees (although to be fair, lots of other people I know in Vancouver are down with the flu as well, it seems particularly virulent this year) is slowly loosening its grip. It’s more than a little disconcerting when you go through the list [...]
A few thoughts on baby monitors; how you parent will affect how (or whether) you need a baby monitor. I’ve got a couple of “how to buy” tips if you do want one which I wish someone had told me!
First, do you need one? If you think you’ll be spending quite a lot of time [...]
The next part of an occasional series on what we found to be useful with a baby. I’ve noticed a few people coming to this site with searches on baby stuff, so here’s some more!
Standard lists for what you need for a baby always seem a little too prescriptive to me; “thou shalt have 6 [...]
Halloween is a big deal here in Vancouver, at least if you have children. In New Zealand (at least while I was growing up) we didn’t celebrate Halloween at all so it wasn’t until I got to Canada and had children that it became part of the yearly cycle.
Halloween here has three parts: decorations, costumes, [...]
It’s awfully cute when you watch a kitten playing with the phone cord
but not so cute when you see the consequences of the same kitten, now a cat, playing with the handset cord. I’m sure there’s some sort of parenting lesson in there.
We’re planning on travelling to Australia for a vacation, and since the baby will shortly need a new car seat anyway, I was hoping to get one that matches Canadian and Australian standards. Britax makes car seats in each country but when I called them they said the Canadian car seats did not meet Australian [...]
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