A Scout's Guide To The Ultimate Summer Camping Trip
27 ℃. That’s the perfect temperature for summer camping according to Scouts – Canada’s youngest outdoor experts. So, go check the thermometer. It’s time to answer the call of the wilderness! Scouts learn essential outdoor skills and how...
Summer Travels and Healthy Sleep for Your Baby
Summer is here and warm weather means cottage, camping, and road trip time. A common question I get asked this time of year is “We’re going away soon. How do I protect my baby’s sleep?” Here are tips on how to have a great summer vacation...
Parenting Sleep Tip: Ditch the Gadgets and Get the Help!
“Sleep while you can! You won’t sleep again once baby arrives!” How many times have you heard that? If you’re a parent, chances are you heard it at least a thousand times in the weeks and months before your child was born. And as soon as...
Cool Stuff
Una the Trunki Unicorn
Ride Una the Trunki Unicorn on mystical adventures! Designed for travelling tots, so attach your spiral horn and shake your rainbow tail and get ready to ride and explore! Little storytellers can gracefully ride, carry, or be towed through magical...Blogs
Everyday Essentials
When you first become a parent you go a little overboard with the ‘essentials.’ The bouncers, the bottles, the bumbos, the ‘stuff!’
As your kids grow, the stuff that you thought was so important dwindles … there’s still ‘stuff’... Read More
In the Blink of an Eye
How did this happen? Weren’t they just born yesterday? Don’t get me wrong, some stages and days seemed like they went on for a lifetime. But whether good or bad, the days, the months, the years have flown by.
You know when they say “don’t... Read More
Dial Down Screen Time and Crank Up The Fun with Springfree!
Getting little ones off the screens and outside can be a big challenge to parents these days. As much as you restrict them, the screens are there in the distance, beckoning to you with the lure of a little quiet time… whether it’s a television... Read More
Here’s how a little fruit changed our eating habits as a family
My kids are picky eaters at home. By all accounts, at daycare and after school club, they will shovel anything and everything placed in front of them in their mouths. This gives me great comfort because at home, they sing (almost to the tune of any... Read More
S’mores and Snowshoe Trek? Yes Please!
I don’t like S’mores. There I said it. I don’t know why… My family is Portuguese and I am first generation Canadian so graham crackers and marshmallows were not a staple in my house growing up.
It’s not like my family didn’t go... Read More
Why are we making parenting so complicated?
Parenting is hard.
I get it. I’m the mother of two.
I have had my share of worries and stresses.
I have had internal battles with myself because I let my baby watch Baby Einstein before the age of two. I have lost sleep over the fact that... Read More