A new trend is causing tongues to wag as it increases in popularity. Coffee drinking parents are now seemingly spreading their addiction to the next generation, giving their adorable toddlers their very own Babyccinos. This of course is giving conniption fits in certain parenting circles. How dare hipster parents share their love of the...
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One of my favourite board games growing up was the “Game of Life.” It was a simple game where you would drive your plastic car across the board. The spinner was like a mini Wheel of Fortune wheel and each space was a different life event. You would start the game with a little...
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Late last year a case in Australia made international headlines. It was the situation where Doctors accidentally aborted the wrong twin. The twins were mere weeks away birth when a heart problem was detected in one baby. The baby faced years of surgery, if he even survived the birth process. So the painful decision...
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Every playground had one of those kids. The boy who insisted that it was possible to swing in a complete circle on the swing set. Many a child has tried to complete this mythical journey, but could never get enough momentum to go completely over the top. Most children grow out of the desire...
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On my travels through the interwebs I came upon this little experiment: what happens when you push a washing machine too far and it self-destructs. Unfortunately, my four boys were watching and loved the complete dis-assembly visited upon a machine strikingly like our brand-new model in the basement. After viewing the video, I gave...
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                        My baby is finally six! To celebrate, we invited over three friends for Secret Agent training and cake. Now that my boys are getting older, I am enjoying planning parties that they appreciate. For this party, my first stop was Pinterest. I...
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With so many kids, I have gone through my share of car seats. I have had three rear facing seats, two convertible seats, two front facing seats and one booster seat over the years. I never questioned the benefits of a properly fitting and secured car seat for infants: weak neck muscles and tiny...
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On Saturdays my guys get a treat: sugar cereal.  Sometimes it is Captain Crunch, other times it is Honeycomb cereal. Their true love, however, is Lucky Charms. It is the one with sickly sweet marshmallows mixed in with surgary, shimmery shapes. They love everything about Lucky Charms, the fun shapes, the sparkly box and of...
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A bright blue car is turning heads in the on a London street this week. It isn’t a suped-up roadster though: it is a 1.5 ton replica  Chevelot Orlando made out of Play-Doh modelling clay. Created to mark the launch of the Chevrolet Orlando, eight model makers spent two weeks crafting the seven seater...
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