Escape Room for Kids

Escape Room for Kids

I was locked in a room with my kids and my parents for over an hour. And it was the best time ever. Escape rooms have become one of the newest playgrounds for adults in Toronto. There are dozens of games across the city that have friends (and strangers) working...
Solar Stage Children’s Theatre

Solar Stage Children’s Theatre

This cozy little theatre was the last thing I thought I’d find in the bottom of the Madison Centre office tower at Yonge and Sheppard. We made the trip to North York to introduce the kids to theatre. The Solar Stage Children’s Theatre in its 20th season presents...
Brain: The Inside Story

Brain: The Inside Story

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...
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair

Royal Agricultural Winter Fair

Farm kids and city slickers unite. The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, the annual ten-day festival celebrating all things country, takes over Exhibition Place from November 7 to 16, 2014. For our family, it’s our prairie roots that bring us to the event every year....