By: Joya Williams SUMMER VACATION: No Baggage Please! This year our summer vacation is a week in Barbados. We’ve never been and we’re all pretty excited. I love the anticipation of going away, the knowledge that the hardest decision will soon be where to eat…
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By: Tamara Bailey In our modern life, visits to airports, stadium events, parades, and other large attractions are inevitable. Often noisy and bustling with activity, these are the types of places where I want to keep an iron-grip on my children. While my preschooler is…
Read More...Member of the Month April Announced! {May Prizing Revealed}
Are you a card-carrying Member of Modern Mama? You can live in Halifax or Vancouver, or anywhere in this great Country, or even in Cabo San Lucas Mexico (we have a new location there) but as long as you’ve got your perks card, you’re in!…
Read More...Healthy Frozen Treats for Summer
By: Shauna Robertson With the weather warming up, its time to find healthy ways to cool down! Here are five of my favourite healthy frozen treats. Frozen Grapes This is an easy one and so tasty! Skewer grapes on a wooden BBQ skewer (If you…
Read More...Healthy Frozen Treats for Summer
By: Shauna Robertson With the weather warming up, its time to find healthy ways to cool down! Here are five of my favourite healthy frozen treats. Frozen Grapes This is an easy one and so tasty! Skewer grapes on a wooden BBQ skewer (If you…
Read More...Healthy Frozen Treats for Summer
By: Shauna Robertson With the weather warming up, its time to find healthy ways to cool down! Here are five of my favourite healthy frozen treats. Frozen Grapes This is an easy one and so tasty! Skewer grapes on a wooden BBQ skewer (If you…
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By: Joleen Dalk Salyn Do you want your child to sleep better? The majority of sleep issues in children that I encounter as a certified pediatric sleep consultant fall into two categories; dependency on sleep associations and insufficient sleep amounts. Most people have heard the…
Read More...Summer Recipes for a Picnic in the Park: Part 2
By: Ayoe Lai This post is a follow up to Summer Recipes for a Picnic in the Park: Part 1. Now that you got the first two recipes for your own picnic in the park, you are almost ready to go. I will share with you…
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