Editor’s Note: Flipping through the editions from the last 10 years – a veritable trip down memory lane! – it’s only fitting that our anniversary issue be a reflection on the best of Ottawa Parenting Times. We poured through the pages and […]
Kelly Roesler
Three and done – and coming to terms
For some reason, looking at a little boy at the beach recently brought about a stirring: my deep-seated longing to have one more child.
Workin’ it out – together
We’ve recently joined our first family fitness class – and now the highlight of my weekends is moving to “Watch me (Whip/ Nae Nae)” with my six-year-old. Is that lame?
Music, my life, and motherhood
Music has always been a huge part of my life. Ever since I was little, having music around, singing along, and attending concerts was always so important.
A new year, a leap of faith
One night in mid-December, I had a vivid, intriguing dream. I dreamed I’d had another child, a beautiful baby girl named Elle. The dream took me through the final stages of pregnancy, through giving birth, and then the appearance […]
The Lice Diaries
As a mom who has been through this umpteen times now, I find I’m almost consumed with paranoia that head lice will creep their way back into our home.
A poignant goodbye & the promise of a new home
As I write this column, fall is quickly setting in and the winds of change are blowing – at least in my world – like never before, and rocking my world.
The significance of the toothless grin
It’s just a tooth, I tell myself. A single missing tooth. But how is it she looks so much different, more mature, and almost nothing like my precious baby?
Q&A: Girls & Sex
Today’s girls are facing a new sexual landscape. Journalist Peggy Orenstein examines the issues and how parents can help in her new book, Girls & Sex.
On mothering, without having a mother
It’s an all-too-familiar scenario, one surely most of us have heard: the new mom, trying to adjust to her new role as mother and all that entails, feeling overwhelmed by so many things, including, in many cases, her well-meaning mother, […]