Category: ‘Children’
Since July 1st, fitness-loving Ontarians have had to swallow an 8% increase in their gym memberships, workout gear, protein shakes, swimming lessons, etc……thanks to the HST. Also since July 1st, industry groups like the Fitness Industry Council of Canada along with some municipal governments have been pressuring the Ontario government to introduce a “non-refundable provincial [...]
Dalton McGuinty & his Children’s Activity Tax Credit is a post from: Health and Fitness articles
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Years ago I read a poem by a young Mom. (I apologize I don’t remember where or who wrote it but it inspired me to write one that applied to my own children (and me). As they got older, I kept adding to it… I think it’s applicable to print today as this is my son’s last [...]
McDonald’s and the Ottawa District School Board teach kids that voluntary food industry regulation is useless.
2010
September 7
(Yup, that’s Ronald McDonald’s signature up there)So our fitness director Kelly’s littlest boy is starting junior kindergarten this year.As part of his orientation he had to attend a, “School Bus Safety Awareness Day”. Apparently school bus safety is …
Kids that is. We are now in day 5 of having 6 kids in the house. I must say, although not spotless, I have managed to keep some order in my house. The daily chores have been acco…
Every year, hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent in elementary, middle, and high schools, for specialists to try to teach children to be better humans. School is more than just learning your multiplication tables and parts of speech (and sometimes, unfortunately, it is much less than either of those). It’s a place where [...]
Caillou. Caillou. Ugh. Just saying his name makes me want to spit. Caillou is pretty much my number one kiddie-related entertainment nemesis and not just because he’s a whiny little turd whose voice makes me want to stab myself in the ears. OK, that’s not true. It is his whiny little voice that makes detest [...]
Okay, so I think the real problem here is that Yours Truly has been watching daytime television. This is a Bad Plan. Because you know what? I think I’m beginning to understand something. And that something is that most of the people in ‘popular culture’, if daytime television is to be believed, are, if you’ll [...]
Some artists spend their careers trying to recapture the sense of wonder and imagination they had as children. I was reminded of that this summer while I sketeched and watched my friends kids create artwork from flotsam and jetsam on the beach. The…
Things I know for sure: 1. If you have unprotected sex, you will get pregnant. All four times. 2. If you ask your husband to take the trash cans to the curb, he will do it, but not on your schedule — on his. And that’s usually after the trash men have already passed your [...]
My oldest daughter, Laurelle was in preschool when I was told I was expecting again. My husband and I had been trying for years to conceive after the birth of our daughter and finally we were referred to the infertility clinic who diagnosed us with secondary infertility meaning they didn’t understand why we weren’t getting pregnant and [...]
Christine, a blog reader and bariatric nurse from Alberta, sent me an email last week tipping me off to Alberta’s The Amazing Little Cookbook.The book, published by the “Healthy U” arm of Alberta’s Ministry of Health, is a cookbook meant for children t…
Last week Colby Vorland tweeted a link to a new study that looked at the impact of a lifestyle modification program geared at overweight fathers and their children.The study set out to randomly investigate something called the Healthy Dads, Healthy Kid…
When I practiced more traditional family medicine and saw my pregnant patients many rationalized rapid and extreme weight gains as a rite of pregnancy and not a worry because after all, they were “eating for two”.It’s probably time to rethink those att…
This year was a challenging year for our kids at school. More independence, less coddling by teachers, homework and school yard dynamics. Oy! Some of it we anticipated as part of attending a full day in the primary grades. There were issues with inclusion, speaking up, hurt feelings and even and a bullying incidence. [...]
Think back to the this past winter Olympics…a time when Canada experienced a swell of patriotism. Wasn’t it great? I love Canada. It is not perfect…but the more I travel and read, I appreciate this beautiful country. My brother and sister-in-law live in the United States. Our nieces and nephew have dual citizenship…but I [...]
My kids like to help in the kitchen. Tomorrow they are going to “cook” their traditional Father’s Day breakfast. (Co-incidentally, it happens to be the exact same menu as Mother’s Day breakfast.) We awake to lots of clanging and banging around in the kitchen mixed with loud “Shhhhh’s”. When we come downstairs, coffee is made [...]
The first official day of summer is days away. In the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice officially begins on June 21st at 7:28 am EDT. As the weather warms and we shed our clothes, many of us are starting to think about sunscreen. Before you reach for your favourite brand, the Environmental Working [...]
Warning: The following post will likely make you itchy. “Mommy, my head itches.” Not the words you want to hear just before bath time on a Monday night. I turned to look at my daughter and she had both hands on her head scratching furiously. Oh…please…please…not THAT. Luckily, my neighbour is a [...]
Since July 1st, fitness-loving Ontarians have had to swallow an 8% increase in their gym memberships, workout gear, protein shakes, swimming lessons, etc……thanks to the HST. Also since July 1st, industry groups like the Fitness Industry Council of Canada along with some municipal governments have been pressuring the Ontario government to introduce a “non-refundable provincial [...]
Dalton McGuinty & his Children’s Activity Tax Credit is a post from: Health and Fitness articles
Related posts:
Years ago I read a poem by a young Mom. (I apologize I don’t remember where or who wrote it but it inspired me to write one that applied to my own children (and me). As they got older, I kept adding to it… I think it’s applicable to print today as this is my son’s last [...]
McDonald’s and the Ottawa District School Board teach kids that voluntary food industry regulation is useless.
(Yup, that’s Ronald McDonald’s signature up there)So our fitness director Kelly’s littlest boy is starting junior kindergarten this year.As part of his orientation he had to attend a, “School Bus Safety Awareness Day”. Apparently school bus safety is …
Kids that is. We are now in day 5 of having 6 kids in the house. I must say, although not spotless, I have managed to keep some order in my house. The daily chores have been acco…
Every year, hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent in elementary, middle, and high schools, for specialists to try to teach children to be better humans. School is more than just learning your multiplication tables and parts of speech (and sometimes, unfortunately, it is much less than either of those). It’s a place where [...]
Caillou. Caillou. Ugh. Just saying his name makes me want to spit. Caillou is pretty much my number one kiddie-related entertainment nemesis and not just because he’s a whiny little turd whose voice makes me want to stab myself in the ears. OK, that’s not true. It is his whiny little voice that makes detest [...]
Okay, so I think the real problem here is that Yours Truly has been watching daytime television. This is a Bad Plan. Because you know what? I think I’m beginning to understand something. And that something is that most of the people in ‘popular culture’, if daytime television is to be believed, are, if you’ll [...]
Some artists spend their careers trying to recapture the sense of wonder and imagination they had as children. I was reminded of that this summer while I sketeched and watched my friends kids create artwork from flotsam and jetsam on the beach. The…
Things I know for sure: 1. If you have unprotected sex, you will get pregnant. All four times. 2. If you ask your husband to take the trash cans to the curb, he will do it, but not on your schedule — on his. And that’s usually after the trash men have already passed your [...]
My oldest daughter, Laurelle was in preschool when I was told I was expecting again. My husband and I had been trying for years to conceive after the birth of our daughter and finally we were referred to the infertility clinic who diagnosed us with secondary infertility meaning they didn’t understand why we weren’t getting pregnant and [...]
Christine, a blog reader and bariatric nurse from Alberta, sent me an email last week tipping me off to Alberta’s The Amazing Little Cookbook.The book, published by the “Healthy U” arm of Alberta’s Ministry of Health, is a cookbook meant for children t…
Last week Colby Vorland tweeted a link to a new study that looked at the impact of a lifestyle modification program geared at overweight fathers and their children.The study set out to randomly investigate something called the Healthy Dads, Healthy Kid…
When I practiced more traditional family medicine and saw my pregnant patients many rationalized rapid and extreme weight gains as a rite of pregnancy and not a worry because after all, they were “eating for two”.It’s probably time to rethink those att…
This year was a challenging year for our kids at school. More independence, less coddling by teachers, homework and school yard dynamics. Oy! Some of it we anticipated as part of attending a full day in the primary grades. There were issues with inclusion, speaking up, hurt feelings and even and a bullying incidence. [...]
Think back to the this past winter Olympics…a time when Canada experienced a swell of patriotism. Wasn’t it great? I love Canada. It is not perfect…but the more I travel and read, I appreciate this beautiful country. My brother and sister-in-law live in the United States. Our nieces and nephew have dual citizenship…but I [...]
My kids like to help in the kitchen. Tomorrow they are going to “cook” their traditional Father’s Day breakfast. (Co-incidentally, it happens to be the exact same menu as Mother’s Day breakfast.) We awake to lots of clanging and banging around in the kitchen mixed with loud “Shhhhh’s”. When we come downstairs, coffee is made [...]
The first official day of summer is days away. In the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice officially begins on June 21st at 7:28 am EDT. As the weather warms and we shed our clothes, many of us are starting to think about sunscreen. Before you reach for your favourite brand, the Environmental Working [...]
Warning: The following post will likely make you itchy. “Mommy, my head itches.” Not the words you want to hear just before bath time on a Monday night. I turned to look at my daughter and she had both hands on her head scratching furiously. Oh…please…please…not THAT. Luckily, my neighbour is a [...]