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Oddly Specific Kids Book Reviews

In this post I will be sharing a few short reviews on children's books (board or picture books) that I've read with my kids lately. Both kids are under 4, so we're talking about books for the preschool, toddler, and infant audience specifically. My

French or English school for our kids? A case study in choosing community

This week my household attended an open house event for the French public elementary school we are considering enrolling our child in to start Junior Kindergarten next fall. Ottawa has four separate school boards covering the same geographic area, that are each managed entirely separately: French secular, English secular, French

Simple Needs, Hard to Satisfy

My current immigration status is: saw a really pretty cloudy, still bright sky over a cornfield while riding my bike here in Ottawa, and cried. For a while in the last year we've been in Canada, I kept having a dream that we had to return to Lincoln

Experiences Treating Cradle Cap in my Newborn

Fair warning, what follows is somewhat gross. Hopefully it is at least somewhat entertaining though, and will give you a little snapshot of the everyday trials of parenting a baby, and if you have a flaky-head baby of your own you're responsible for, maybe it will help you.

Big Sister as Gender

At a play group we attended recently for queer families with little kids, we were asked to fill out a new form for participant tracking by the host organization. Beyond some basic demographic questions you've probably been asked before, one question asked: how does your child describe their

Having a Two Year Old is Great

Today I would like to sing the praises of parenting a two year old. I am having so much fun, and my kid is such a joy to be around. Sometimes the narrative around parenting a toddler is all about the Terrible Twos or having a Threenager and how your