How to Raise a Parent
Carly Stasko investigates the quandaries of new parents
FROM ROUTINES TO RITUALS:
Having a consistent and fun bedtime ritual for your baby keeps everyone happy. It gives your little one important cues to help them transition from a busy day to a restful night. It’s a chance to wind down, to reconnect, to imagine, and take comfort in a predictable routine.
Mere months ago, my husband and I both fancied ourselves to be wild spirits free from the restraints of what we saw as oppressive routines. Being predictable seemed like a fate to avoid at all cost, dare we risk being sentenced to a life of boredom.
Since we’ve become parents an interesting shift has occurred. With the birth of our son we’ve enjoyed the introduction of an additional wild spirit into our lives and our days are filled with chaos, hilarity, relentless learning, play, poop and crazy, crazy love. As we surrender to the improv-act-that-is-parenthood we have found that a bit of routine can be a very welcome sanctuary. Read more...
postcards from bunchland
Mom reading bedtime stories
Today’s Postcard from Bunchland comes from Martin Kelley in New Jersey.
5 Minute Fun
The easiest fun you and your kids ever had in 5 minutes
I went to the new Tequila bar on Ossington with a friend last Tuesday night and when I came home my husband had invented this very simple and surprisingly cool way to turn cookies after dinner into a Jackson Pollock influenced art making activity. I was super impressed and have vowed to go out for cocktails on weeknights more often since it clearly inspires my family to be creative! Anyone want to meet-up for a Tequila next week?
Materials:
Oreos or a similarly flat, sandwich type of cookie. A dark brown almost black cookie is best (aesthetically).
Cake icing tubes in an assortment of colours. We used the kind that are called “Scribblers”.
Steps: Read more...
- Give cookies to each kid and to yourself
- Place icing tubes on table where everyone can easily reach them
