October 29, 2014 2 Are you making or buying your Halloween costume? If your kids are anything like my kids, their adrenaline levels have already gone up in anticipation of [...]
June 28, 2013 6 3 Reasons Why I Really Love Canada You might laugh at me when you hear this (my children think it’s hilarious), but I sometimes get choked up [...]
June 11, 2013 1 How to buy clothes for a 3-year-old without losing your mind Do you have a calm, compliant child who’s always in the mood for whatever needs to be done? [...]
November 3, 2012 2 A Big Day Nine years ago today, I met my daughter Samantha. Meeting your daughter in an office building in China is a [...]
June 8, 2011 2 Stereotyping our children from birth? Toronto couple Kathy Witterick and David Stocker became international news a few weeks ago when they made [...]
March 22, 2011 3 Child Labour, redefined When I was a child, my mother had a thriving small business designing hand-painted silk scarves. When she was [...]
November 8, 2009 0 On sewing and kids During 2009, I tried something new – teaching classes in sewing and quilting for kids (and a few very [...]