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| | Impact | | | Tanya Geisler | | | ← The Ikea Effect MORBID BLOG POST ALERT!!! Really and truly. If you want entertaining go to Copyranter’s blog (check out his the list of everything he hates…you may well be on it), or Zelda Lily for a fun feminist blog (yup…you read that right…thanks Sharon!) Still here? Ok…don’t say I didn’t warn you. Walking my daughter [...] | |
| | | Jumping the shark | | | Tanya Geisler | | | It really didn’t take that long. Five short years in fact. Well, maybe more like two. When our daughter turned three, she started to get the notion of “cool”. And we were IT. Yesterday morning we (well, ok, my husband first) officially “jumped the shark”. In suggesting that our daughter put on a hat because it [...] | |
| | | can Teenagers Find Their Life Purpose in School? [parenting] | | | noreply@blogger.com (Pearl Mattenson, CPCC, ACC) | | | My husband and I have two sons and it is striking how different they are from each other in some very fundamental ways. The younger one is driven by his own internal curiosity and passions. He loves learning and he loves school. He has never met a boring topic and his main stress in life is that there are not enough hours in the day to learn more about all that he is interested in. He is both exhilarating and exhausting to be around. His challenge in life will be to figure out how he wants to channel his energy to make a mark on the world. | |
| | | 4 Questions to Ask Yourself About Parenting [parenting] | | | Pearl Mattenson, CPCC, ACC | | | Your child tells you he is going to play at a neighbor’s house. The neighbors are close friends and you don’t give it a second thought. An hour later your friend calls to tell you she thinks the boys went off to the woods behind your house - a place you know they shouldn’t be. Your daughter has stopped letting you check her knapsack when she comes home from school. One day as you are cleaning her room you discover a pile of small things (a pencil case, a key ring, a notepad) that clearly don’t belong to her. | |
| | | Getting to Know Your Children Without Snooping [parenting] | | | Pearl Mattenson, CPCC, ACC | | | When our kids were young, there were so many windows to perch from to marvel at who they were becoming. There were play dates and park benches. The tables around which we painted and made play-dough. The floors we sat on to read stories and engage in make-believe. Car rides in which anything and everything could (and did) happen. Today car rides are more likely to include other kids in the car pool and surreptitious texting. Most weeknight dinners are too rushed for relaxed and unobtrusive parental perching. | |
| | | The _______ Fairy | | | Tanya Geisler | | | We’re out four bucks this week. Our daughter lost her two front bottom teeth and apparently a toonie per tooth is the going rate. I suppose baby teeth are a commodity. We’re conflicted about her passing another milestone. On the one hand, we’re sad to see the end of the baby toothed-era, but we (including our [...] | |
| | | Winter sports? - I am NOT Canadian! | | | Paul Copcutt | | | When I came to Canada over 12 years ago amongst the many pieces of advice I received was "If you are going to live in Canada then you need to get in to winter sports" The closest I ever got to Canada and winter sports in the UK was watching Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards compete on the ski hill at the Calgary Olympics. Amazingly for an Englishman who had hardly ever skied he did not come last - a Frenchman broke his leg on the first day and was placed last - Eddie came in 2nd last. | |
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