Spring Cleaning: Mom’s Closet Cleanse

Spring Cleaning: Mom’s Closet Cleanse

With Your Shop Girl Suzanne Colmer Those expensive jeans that haven’t fit quite right since having kids. The blazers and dress pants from my office days before my first mat leave. Seven in- and out-of-style pairs of pants, five skirts, a few shorts and work-out gear,...
Sibling Fighting is Driving Me Crazy

Sibling Fighting is Driving Me Crazy

Navigating Sibling Fighting with Toronto Mom Sarah Rosensweet I never really got siblings – in the literal and not-so-literal sense. I’m an only child and have only great memories of our little family of three. (Here’s why). Siblings, from the outside...
French Summer Camps in Toronto and the GTA

French Summer Camps in Toronto and the GTA

I’ve got summer camp on the brain. And like many GTA parents, I’ve also got French on the brain – rather, how to keep French in their brains over the summer holidays when the majority of camps for kids are in English. Whether your kids are in a full French program,...
Tips for Little Skaters in TOw

Tips for Little Skaters in TOw

Growing up, the rink was my second home. The cold, small-town arena was a meeting place for the community and where lifetime friendships were made. (If those dressing room walls could talk…) I spent almost every day skating or coaching – starting at 6 a.m. for my own...
Mommy Hours and CBC’s Workin’ Moms

Mommy Hours and CBC’s Workin’ Moms

It was my first week back after mat leave and as I was fast-walking out the door at 5 p.m. on my race to daycare pick up, a colleague, whom I hadn’t seen in a year, greeted me with “oh right, you’re on mommy hours now.” Mommy hours?! You mean the schedule where...