Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
My favourite slacker mom activity
Lately, my two older boys have been getting up earlier and earlier, despite the fact dawn breaks later and later these days. And my husband has a new job that takes him out of the house really early to commute to a nearby city. So I’m on my own from an early hour with two [...]
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
Weekly Tip: Stop and enjoy the moment
I get all kinds of newsletters from various parenting and eco sites and blogs to try to stay up to date on new products, and to keep learning while I’m home with my kids. Some days I feel like they are just cluttering up my inbox, but other times I come across something that really [...]
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Great green reads for little minds
To celebrate Earth Day today, I thought I’d share some excellent children’s books our family has read lately so you can try to make every day Earth Day in your household (we all know how little ones like to hear a story over and over again…).
One day earlier this spring I escaped for a bit [...]
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Guest blogging this week on CanadianFamily.ca
It’s only Tuesday, but it’s already been a busy week for Kai Kids. First we were featured in the Toronto Star’s Sunday edition, which brought us lots of online traffic and kept us busy shipping parcels off to new customers, yippee!
Plus, I was invited to be the guest blogger over at Canadian Family’s blog for [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Business, Green Living, Parenting, Press by Nancy
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Back to Nature, Back to B.C.
Hello from sunny Naramata, British Columbia! I’m home in the Okanagan Valley where i grew up for a few weeks chez Mum overlooking beautiful Okanagan Lake! For my two little city boys, it is a thrill to be in a small town in the mountains! The air is fresh, there is always [...]
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
My little green star
So, my brother was visiting from Vancouver earlier this week, and Kai, our three-year-old, was over the moon, following him around, demonstrating his dancing skills, showing off his assortment of trucks and toys and generally monopolizing his Uncle John. My brother has a one-year-old, but three-year-olds are currently beyond his scope of experience, and I [...]
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Phthalates in baby lotions and shampoo
As if parents don’t have enough to worry about already what with toxic baby bottles and lead in toys, this week it was reported that many common brands of baby shampoo, powder, creams and lotions contain high levels of dangerous pthalates, a chemical used to stabilize fragrance and soften plastic.It’s the same chemical found in [...]
