There’s this television commercial of a child in a school cafeteria with a soda, opening a bag of chips.
The chips go everywhere and she’s embarrassed.
The problem is solved with a plastic zippered ...
One morning my daughter ran into my home office saying: “Mom, get off the computer I have to Google how to save the world, right now!”
She loves researching things.
When she was four the passion was d...
I’m definitely not a health food junkie. One of our house rules is: any candy received must be shared with mom.
However, I do have the occasional qualm about cavities, weight gain and diabetes, so at ...
If you live in the East End you might have heard screams coming from my house. You might have heard: “Stop! You’re hurting me! Ahhh ... Leave me alone. You’re abusing me!”
It might surprise my neighbo...
I’m not sure what the purpose of daylight savings ... whoops dozed off there in the middle of a sentence.
Springing forward in time is never fun, but it’s worse when you have a child.
At 8pm there was...
She wanted a monkey so we did what any sane parents would do, we bought a goldfish.
I explained to my daughter that the two had a lot of similarities, and thankfully she didn’t ask for elaboration.
I ...
It was the sort of phone call you hope you never have to make during a play date.
“Hello, we’re just calling to say your daughter is blue, navy blue to be precise.”
Earlier I’d been congratulating mys...
I pointed to the word “no” on a sign at the Botanical Gardens. My four-year-old daughter frowned and said: “Cut it out mummy!”
I told myself she was too young.
A year later, she was even more resista...
When I was six, my uncle brought me a Paddington Bear from London. He wore a floppy hat, blue coat and yellow galoshes. Around day two of ownership, one of the yellow boots went missing. Several decad...
In the middle of my daughter’s dance recital I fell in love with the Pink’s song Funhouse I’m more interested in country music. I love listening to legends like Waylon Jennings. I couldn’t believe I w...
