(Post by contributor, Dea Daniels) This fall, I had to face a few hard facts: 1. Babies grow up {everyone tells you but it’s still tough to experience!} 2. These days are full-to-overflowing {Fitting into a paper schedule doesn’t mean it works!} 3. My house has not learned … [Read more...] about On Toddler Boys and Toilet Bowls (Teaching Kids to Have Fun With Chores!)
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Homeschool and Community: 6 Ways to Bring Them Together
From the time that we started talking about having children, we planned to homeschool them for at least the early years. That was over eight years ago: our oldest is five and we just officially kicked off her career in formal education. Meanwhile there have been many changes, … [Read more...] about Homeschool and Community: 6 Ways to Bring Them Together
How to Make Campfire Bannock
Post by contributor, Dea Daniels While the afternoons are still bright and hot, the scent of autumn is on the wind. Hints of gold, evening chill, fields of harvest. While many are mourning the passing of summer, I am delighted to greet my favourite … [Read more...] about How to Make Campfire Bannock
How to Stop Being Overwhelmed by Laundry (7 Clever Tips That Work)
This is not one of those posts that promise you'll never get behind on laundry ever again, nor is it a magical fairy that will come into your house and do it all for you (Um, hello. I wish). This is simply a post outlining the steps I took to reduce the amount of overwhelm I was … [Read more...] about How to Stop Being Overwhelmed by Laundry (7 Clever Tips That Work)
9 Things I Learned About Parenting From Being a Doula
Post by contributor, Dea Daniels This week, I had the privilege of attending two births. While my role was quite different with each mom, both births were challenging and beneficial. They were beautifully unique with exceptional labouring women, supportive partners, and gorgeous … [Read more...] about 9 Things I Learned About Parenting From Being a Doula
I Am Supermom
I was great with child exactly five years ago, sweltering in my hugeness with heat radiating from concrete, counting down the weeks until. Then on a bright and sunny afternoon in September I birthed a child and took the title, "mother", just like that. Boom. For all of these … [Read more...] about I Am Supermom
7 Lessons I’m Learning About Gentle Parenting
Post by contributor, Marissa I’m a gentle parent but I haven’t always been that way; I’m not always that way now but I always want to be. I’m a gentle parent, but I’ll just be straight up and tell you that not everyone would consider me that. When I began my parenting journey I … [Read more...] about 7 Lessons I’m Learning About Gentle Parenting
Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
These were a total whim. It thunder-stormed this afternoon. The winds were so strong they bent our picnic table umbrella pole right in half. Yikes. Such blustery and un-summer-like conditions called for oatmeal peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, I thought. Isn't that what good … [Read more...] about Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Mama Cloth: Natural Care for Your Menstrual Cycle
We've talked nutrition and health. We've chatted up pregnancy and birth, and the various intimate details therein. I've shared about breastfeeding my toddler. We've even ventured into the subject of placentophagy (the act of consuming one's placenta after birth - and yup, I … [Read more...] about Mama Cloth: Natural Care for Your Menstrual Cycle