When I was growing up, I was always immersed in a book. As a primary schooler, I devoured Ann M. Martin’s The Baby-Sitters Club series and looked forward to the years when I’d be old enough to babysit (I […]
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From the editor
No matter how many times we send our children off for the first day of school, it’s never easy. As parents, we will worry: will my child fit in and make friends? Will she miss me? Will he get an […]
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As a former daily news journalist, Ottawa resident since 2007 and mother of two active kids who like to see and do all the things, there are very few festivals, events, or attractions that I haven’t been to at least […]
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A few years ago, I developed a mysterious rash. What started off as a few hot spots on the insides of my wrists and the sides of my neck spread up both arms and behind my ears and down my […]
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When we are children, money can be something of an abstract concept. Adults tap a piece of plastic or their phones or hand over pieces of coloured paper (that somehow has been assigned more value than ordinary paper) and receive […]
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I enjoyed winters in Ottawa long before I became a resident. My dad and my uncle Andy spent their early adult years here, attending the University of Ottawa and Carleton University respectively. My parents were married here in 1977. After […]
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Every issue of Parenting Times Magazine is the result of hundreds of hours of work—finding and assigning stories, interviewing, writing, then fact checking, more fact checking, editing, copy editing, rinse and repeat—a joyful undertaking fuelled by a love for what […]
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As much as we’ve been enjoying summer, heading back to school has been a major topic of discussion in our house for weeks now, and for very good reason. Not only are the kids back in class—older daughter Millie is […]
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My brother and I enjoyed wonderful summer holidays while growing up in southern Ontario. Toronto’s museums and galleries were our backyard. We attended art camps. Dad often took long weekends, and we’d rent cottages with friends and take our boat […]
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I’d been sleeping poorly for years. I would wake up gasping for breath, or snore so loudly others in the house could hear me through the walls. Finally, I gave in and spent a night in a sleep clinic. The […]