Last week HaltonParents got to be part of an official kids book launch at Milton Public Library, on Clean Air Day, June 5. Very exciting stuff!
Early Literacy Specialist Sharon Campbell-Springstead and Public Health Nurse Julia Brdarevic read Ka-Pow to Powerjams to local students.
“Ground control to Major Tom”…I mean, Hadfield – you’ve really made the grade! Space has never really interested me too much. In fact, the use of astronauts as the unofficial benchmark for smarts and achievement (along with brain surgeons and quantum physicists) has always actually annoyed me a little. That was until recently. That was until International Space Station Commander, Chris Hadfield – the pride and joy of Milton Ontario – knocked my socks off! Continue reading
Okay – I don’t know about you but I have definitely heard enough warnings to make me rightly cautious when exposing my kids to the sun. Be it from my doctor, pharmacist, the media or my colleagues here at the Halton Region Health Department, I have heard the messages loud and clear.
I come from a generation that had no knowledge of the health risks of unprotected sun exposure – so I’m reeeeeally hoping a touch more ozone protected the earth back then! “Yo, 16-year-old me: How ‘bout you don’t slather baby oil (or even cooking oil) all over your skin hoping to bake in the sun?!” Wow, did I really do that? Continue reading
Have you seen this video from UserExperienceWorks? “A magazine is an iPad that does not work.”
So, what do think? Do you have a touch screen tablet computer or smartphone in your house? Do you let your kids use them, specifically your toddlers?
We recently got a tablet computer and yes, we let our 17 month-old daughter play with it from time to time. Continue reading
A nice, brisk, spring stroll along the lakeshore at Burlington’s Spencer Smith Park was just what the doctor ordered after a long winter of kids constantly sick with tonsillitis. My mood was as grey as the endless weeks of dreary weather we endured that snowless year with no tobogganing or fort-building to make it all worthwhile.
It was a few years ago when my daughter was 4 and my son just 2 – her happily walking alongside me like a little soldier, ready to obey my every command and him constantly seeking that tiny window of opportunity to make a mad dash and do a cannonball into Lake Ontario. She had never been the type to bolt and was exceptionally compliant from day one. He… ummm…not so much. That hasn’t changed to this day. She needs very little supervision – he needs LOTS. That’s just the way they are. Continue reading
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