Can we have a dog? I get this question from time to time. While the answer continues to be no (reasons I’ll save for another post), I want my kids to have a chance to nuture their love for animals, even if we don’t have a live-in pet. I turned to Pawsitively...
There are very few places that I’ve felt pure Canadian-ness. This is one of them. In less than an hour’s drive from downtown Toronto, my family arrived at The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, a picturesque gallery nestled in 100 acres of wilderness in the...
Science + Art. This may be the best combo to describe our family. So when Action Potential Lab – Toronto’s first lab dedicated to merging science concepts with crafty creativeness – we couldn’t wait to stop by. Our first experiment came when we were invited to a...
Your child turns five and <gasp> you have yet to choose the instrument that they’ll spend the next 12-plus years mastering. Like many parents, we’ve arrived at that music lesson moment. Yes, my kids have strummed along with dad and pounded the keys around TOwn...
Fact 1: The human brain contains 100 billion neurons with at least 100 trillion connections in all. (I question the number – or lack – of neurons firing in my brain since I became a parent.) Fact 2: brain function peaks in your 20s, then the number of...
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