Old School Still Cool
Cynthia Kinnunen blogs about sharing stuff from your childhood with your kids
We were all snuggled up in front of the TV last Sunday morning for an hour and what should come on but The Littlest Hobo. Without cable, this and Coronation Street is about as edgy as Sunday morning television gets around our place.
But the kids were enchanted by this wandering dog that would latch on to people for a time and well, save their lives multiple times during the half hour. In this episode, a family was taking off on a six-month sailing adventure and had to leave their old dog behind. Hobo, of course, was watching and then stowed away (knowing they needed a dog on board for numerous rescues). He ended up saving the day after a wild, shipwrecked adventure and the kids couldn’t stop talking about him for the rest of the day. Read more...
Being Precious
Precious Chong blogs about co-parenting alongside her ex and his new fiancee
I just came back from recording a story for CBC’s DNTO with Wes. The theme of the show was border crossings so we told the story about how Wes missed the birth of our son because they wouldn’t let him through the border.
What happened was, I was eight months pregnant and we were living in Toronto. I wanted to have the baby in Los Angeles for several reasons:
a. I still had my s.a.g. insurance
b. my son would get dual citizenship
c. Wes was doing a play in California and rehearsals started the week of my due date.
d. I only had a green card at the time and my interview for my own U.S. citizenship was scheduled to happen around my due date (I had forgotten this detail, Wes reminded me). Read more...
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Here’s what we’re reading today:
Want to give to the Salvation Army’s iconic Red Kettle but you had no cash on hand? There’s an app for that. Mashable, your source for all things social media, has rounded up five creative social good campaigns. The Choose Haiti bracelets look pretty neat.
The Hipster Mom feels the most at home in the action figure and model car department when she makes a trip to the Toys R Us. Yesterday she wrote about her first venture into the aisles of the baby dolls.
Jonathan Liu over at Geek Dad has shared some kid-friendly comics by artist James Kochalka. Kid-friendly or not, a comic wherein the artist’s cat stars as the hero Dragon Puncher and the artist himself the aforementioned dragon? Awesome.
Good bacteria: it’s not just for yogurt-lovers anymore. The CBC reports that probiotics may help with illnesses in children. An otherwise healthy child with a viral infection could see the duration of his symptoms shorten.
