Fifth-grade me is standing at the front of our portable classroom, beet-red and ready to burst. Twenty-five pairs of eyes are staring at me. They are my peers and in no way unkind as I’m about to deliver a presentation, […]
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From the Editor
I’m usually a very happy person. If you know me in real life, you’ll know that my outlook tends towards the annoyingly sunny side up. But as a working writer, editor and teacher and wife and mother of […]
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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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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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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 […]
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Before the snow began to fall last year, our daughters Millie and Ellie asked to have a teeter-totter for our backyard. To this day, we’re not sure where they got the inspiration for the ask, but their father quickly agreed. […]
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March 2021 As the first lockdown was about to happen exactly one year ago, I was at a certain warehouse-style store, stocking up on super-sized everything that our family of four would need: boxes of frozen food, flats of non-perishables […]