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My children have changed my life. There is never any doubt about this. Of course, it has happened in the most obvious ways – I get woken in the middle of the night, I require childcare arrangements before I can make my child-free activity plans, my home is cluttered with toys and items strewn about [...]  Beauty. Is in the eye of the beholder. This may very well be true. To me beauty is in the moment. It is not defined by a physical appearance, or even a personality, not an object, or an action. Beauty is in the culmination of the experience. In the moment. It is what I [...] I decided to try a new strategy with the 7-yr-old-who-turns-into-a-monster when the words “clean-up your room” are uttered. I’ve tried “pick up your things”, “start with the…”, etc. All result in a meltdown and me standing hovering over a crying child forcing her to attend to the task at hand while I do most of [...] I’m going to offer just a handful of my observations as a soon-to-be-divorced parent: children are far more insightful than we ever give them credit for; there are considerable differences in how siblings view their lives; as the primary parent with whom they reside for more than 85% of the time dad’s weekends when the [...] http://www.renc.igs.net/~tcollier/deployment%20haiti.htm As I was preparing lunch one day, just weeks after daddy’s homecoming, I heard my daughter from the other room. She had been watching Franklin on CBC Kids, and I hadn’t noticed it was over. The news was on when I heard her saying “My daddy was in Haiti!” I walked in the room [...] Considering sending this to our local paper(s) as a Letter to the Editor type piece. I would value feedback to help me polish it up: We must stop paying lip-service to caring and giving, like we all do. Sure we believe we live in a fantastic city, province, country and society where we all care [...] Article that I was one of the interviewees for. http://www.todaysparent.com/lifeasparent/article.jsp?content=20030903_135500_3888&page=1 |
 
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