How To Prepare Your Child For Kindergarten
Kindergarten is such a fun time for your child, and even as a parent. They will leave home for a good amount of the day, and begin their learning experience, develop independence, self-reliance and more. Below are some ways you can help get your child get ready for Kindergarten, by teaching them! These are skills that can help them transition easier to school. Your child may already know these skills, and if so that is…
Rainy Day Activities for Kids
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. It’s that time of year. The time of year that the weather can be unpredictable. One minute it can be sunny and beautiful, and the next it can be raining. If your children are getting a little stir crazy cooped up indoors, and you are feeling the same, there are a few things you can do to make rainy days more bearable and even fun. Visit the…
How to Help Kids Deal with School Stress
School has many obvious benefits for children, from developing social skills, to learning and achieving new academic goals that will help them secure a future career. However, like most things in life, it does have some disadvantages, one major example being school associated stress. We can all relate to the stresses of school, whether that be the pressure associated with exam revision or the peer pressure received from friends. In today’s high-stakes testing and competitive…
5 Ways to Avoid Heat Stroke this Summer
This summer has been a hot one. We have a fan built into our furnace but we don’t have air conditioning. Our house has reached room temperatures of 85 degrees +, and that’s not just hot it’s disgustingly hot. Obviously, this mama has had to find ways to make sure her family stay hydrated and avoid heat stroke. Keep your doors and blinds closed Unless there is a cool breeze, there’s really no point to…
How to Throw a Summer BBQ Party
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. Summer is on its way and it’s time to soak up some sun and fire up that grill. Naturally, as soon as the warm weather comes, people start thinking about their first BBQ party of the summer season. Planning and hosting a summer BBQ party doesn’t have to be complicated. Just make sure to shake it up, stay hydrated and keep it simple. Shake up the Classics If…
How to Safely Remove Ticks
DISCLOSURE: THIS POST CONTAINS AFFILIATE LINKS. Ticks feed on many mammals and are widespread in the countryside. Paths and tracks used by wild animals often expose humans and their pets to ticks. How Ticks Find Their Host Ticks are very sensitive to carbon dioxide. They are able to follow gradients to reach the source – an animal breathing out! They are also able to detect body heat, so they can easily locate warm-blooded animals. Many…
FREE Canada Day Themed Preschool Printables Learning Activity Pages
It’s hard to believe that the end of the school year is near and the summer fun is about to begin including celebrations all over this wonderful country we call home, for Canada’s birthday; full of great company, delicious food and of course red & white everything! THIS POST DOES INCLUDE AFFILIATE LINKS If you’re staying home or entertaining any preschool or kindergarten aged children you’re going to want to have lots of boredom busters…
Create Summer Memories with FUJIFILM INSTAX #Giveaway
Whether you’re day tripping or just spending some much-needed relaxation with the family in your backyard creating memories is always on the agenda. Selfies or full body photo shots with the landscape in the background, whichever you choose, having an image to look back on is a great way to reminisce about all the fun you had this summer. With FUJIFILM you can take photos and print them from anywhere, giving you an instant keepsake…
Golf Rice Krispies Cereal Treats
Father’s Day is this weekend and I have the PERFECT treat for any of your dads, step-dads, grandfathers, uncles, brothers and anyone else who is a father figure in your life that loves to golf. These Golf Rice Krispies Cereal Treats are super delicious and so easy to make their sure to be as successful as a hole in one! Disclosure: This post does include Amazon affiliate links. Thank you for your support! Ingredients 6…
Boozy Bloody Mary Ice Pops
Let me tell you, alcohol on a stick has got to be my new favourite summer treat! Not that I overly indulge in them, of course, but when I’m trying to keep cool in the heat a nice refreshing ice pop will do just what I need. Sweet & savory like a BOOZY PINK FLAMINGO ICE POP is usually my go-to choice for a cocktail popsicle but every now and then a fiery Bloody Mary…
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