Tag archive for ‘life skills’
Empowering Your Kids to Become Housework Helpers
Editor’s Note: Good morning. Marcie Dumais is here this morning with some tips and insight on getting our kiddos to clean up after themselves and share in household chores. Here she is:
I get serious heebie-jeebies about clutter at this time of year. Who am I kidding? I can barely make it through Boxing Day before [...]
Family Eats – Kitchen Tools 4 Family Cooking Fun
My kiddos each have a preference for certain tasks in the kitchen. Wearing their aprons and standing on their designated stools, they have mastered many duties and discovered their kitchen karma.
My youngest, E, loves to peel, cut and stir literally everything.
My oldest, K, is a precise measurer and is the self-professed best recipe finder. She [...]
Kids In The Arts – Get Them Dancing
Dance in the Comox Valley is absolutely on fire. Given a population of less than 70,000 people, you would assume one or two choices for your tyke would be the maximum a community of this size could sustain.
When I was approached to take over leadership of Pantuso Dance I looked at the fact that there [...]
Family Eats – Getting Your Kids In The Kitchen
Editor’s Note: Good Morning and welcome to our first installment of Family Eats – a journey in getting kids back into the kitchen – with lovely local mama Sarah Stromquist and her family.
Sarah lets us peek inside the food-friendly evolution of her family and the family-friendly evolution of her kitchen, offering insight, tips, recipes and [...]
Teaching Kids Financial Literacy
After a few weeks on the island, my parents are heading back East today and we’re hitting the road to Victoria pretty quick this morning.
We’ve all had such a great time just hanging out and soaking up being a family, it’s a bit of a blue day around here.
So, I thought I’d pull out an [...]
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