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Imaginary Well-Dressed Toddler Daughter

QUINOIA: My Imaginary Well-Dressed Toddler Daughter

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On a Pinterest page titled My Imaginary Well-Dressed Toddler Daughter, writer Tiffany Beveridge  discovered two things that go great together: sarcastic humour targeted at hipster kidswear — and Pinterest. We know! If you haven’t already, discover the world of Quinoa and her friends Chevron, Hawkeye, Booker and Ridley. You’ll get addicted to Beveridge’s flair for captions: Everything… Read More »

Reasons My Son Is Crying

Reasons My Son Is Crying (Matthew Broderick)

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This has been flying around the internets today. Hasn’t the obvious Reason His Son is Crying occurred to everyone yet?! Baby looks like Matthew Broderick. All 34 Ostensible Reasons the Ferris Bueller look-alike baby is crying can be found at THIS Tumblr.

Poison ivy is getting bigger, more poisonous

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20 percent of the human population has at least one thing in common with goats - they’re not allergic to poison ivy. (In fact, goats love to munch on the stuff so much, they’re a great way to get rid of the plant.) For the rest of us, contact with the leafy green plant can result… Read More »

Brooklyn bars impose a curfew on babies

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These days, hipsters in New York don’t need to stop heading out to bars for a pint or two just because they’ve had kids. Beer halls in the trendier Brooklyn neighbourhoods of Williamsburg and Park Slope go as far to welcome kids (as long as they’re there with their parents) to come in and relax… Read More »

Muppets ‘matriarch’ Jane Nebel Henson dies

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Jane Nebel Henson, lovingly referred to as the matriarch of the Muppets, and the former wife of Jim Henson, has died after a long bout with cancer, The Jim Henson Company said.  She was 78 years old. In what would be a fateful event, Jane Nebel Henson and Jim Henson met at a puppetry class… Read More »

Saturday is Purim: Here’s a Purim Story (Go Esther!)

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Hey, Saturday is Purim!  Purim is (possibly the funnest of all) Jewish holiday celebrating the story told in the Book of Esther, in which the Jews of ancient Persia were threatened with annihilation by the evil Haman. His plans are foiled by brave (and hitherto secretly Jewish) Queen Esther and her cousin Mordechai. If you’ve never heard… Read More »

The Best Thing On The Internet Today

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is this beautiful short film, spontaneously narrated by an imaginative and articulate six-year-old child, and directed by Bianca Giaever: Bianca Giaever is a Vermont-based radio and multimedia producer, originally from Seattle, who is in the habit of obsessively recording the conversations she has with people. Meandering about the internet on this snowbound, snowtastic day, I came across… Read More »

AGO Art Days tomorrow – re: teachers’ walkout

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Need alternate arrangements for tomorrow? Register NOW - you have until 5 p.m. Art Days at the AGO are wonderful, educational art day camps for grades JK-6, led by art gallery staff. The program runs 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and has an extended care option from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Kids need to bring their own lunch… Read More »

Birds: A Cautionary Tale

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There has been a lot of bird-talk round my house lately – more on that in a moment – and it got me thinking about my all-time favourite piece of writing on nature and family this year: THIS piece by the inimitable Rebecca Cuneo Keenan. She first ran it last July on her site Playground Confidential but it’s SO… Read More »

A Rockin’ New Years Eve for the Whole Family!

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New Years Eve with kids can be just as fun as the adult version. Bunch’s Rebecca Brown shares her tips for a Rockin’ New Years Eve with Today’s Parent.

11-year old at an Idle No More rally speaks the truth

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Ta’Kaiya Blaney of the Sliammon First Nation in B.C. will steal your heart. Ta’Kaiya was speaking at an Idle No More protest and march on December 29 at Simms Park in Courtenay, B.C.. For more inspiration, you can check out her video for the song Shallow Waters here:

We remember

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Charlotte Bacon, age 6 Daniel Barden, age 7 Olivia Engel, age 6 Josephine Gay, age 7 Ana Marquez-Greene, age 6 Dylan Hockley, age 6 Madeleine Hsu, age 6 Catherine Hubbard, age 6 Chase Kowalski, age 7 Jesse Lewis, age 6 James Mattioli, age 6 Grace McDonnell, age 7 Emilie Parker, age 6 Jack Pinto, age… Read More »

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