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How to Educate & Entertain Sick Kids Without Breaking Your Resolutions

How to Educate & Entertain Sick Kids Without Breaking Your Resolutions #NewYearNewView

GEAR, play, tech By January 21, 2016 Tags: , , , , 2 Comments

The New Year brings us more than an urge to make resolutions, clean out cupboards and start new regimes: it brings colds and flus. For parents with little ones, this is a most difficult time of year.  Just when we were ready to bustle them into their coats and mitts and head back to school, they come down with something just ghastly enough to keep them from attending… yet not so debilitating it knocks them out for the day. 

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Ordinary moments when it’s just you and them around the house or at the park that are most special, but rarely get captured. Here are a few tips that will help you to get the perfect self-taken shot.

7 Tips to Guarantee Beautiful Family Selfies

GEAR, tech By January 15, 2016 Tags: , , 2 Comments

Despite the fact that most of us have a pretty high quality digital camera with us every waking minute, most of the pictures you have of you and your children consist of posed snapshots taken on special occasions. It’s the ordinary moments when it’s just you and them around the house or at the park that are most special, but rarely get captured.

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Aislinn Hunter shares: What's In My Bag

Author Aislinn Hunter Answers: What’s in My Bag?

books, GEAR By January 6, 2016 Tags: , No Comments

The bag: a Roots satchel that I bought to take abroad because it has a special padded pocket for an iPad and looked like something I could imagine Kate Moss wearing with skinny jeans. Technically I think it’s a ‘murse’ (I found it on the mens’ side of the local Roots store) but I love the Italian-dyed leather and that it’s made in Canada. It’s super comfortable to carry too, even after hours of walking – and it does look wicked with skinny jeans.

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Elf on the Shelf and Ugly Holiday Sweater Cross Paths

GEAR, style By December 22, 2015 Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , No Comments

Ugly Holiday sweaters have been the rage for many years, though in 1980 many people thought they were beautiful. Like Elaine’s attire on Seinfeld, bell bottoms or disco wear, what was once accepted as normal becomes fodder for themed office holiday parties.

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The Force is with Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition

GEAR, kids, tech, toys By December 8, 2015 Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , 1 Comment

It seems like shopping for the holiday season is getting harder and harder. Finding a unique gift that can not only be enjoyed by all, but also has some staying power, can be difficult – but not impossible! Good news. Disney Infinity 3.0 is no flash-in-the-pan!

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Gifts that Fascinate and Enlighten

eat, family meals, fitness, GEAR, holidays, kids, self, Shopping Reviews, tech By November 30, 2015 Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 2 Comments

It’s shocking, but we are almost done! Day 11 of our 12 Days of Christmas Gift Guides focuses on gifts that fascinate and enlighten. In case you missed any, we’ve done a round-up of all of our guides, along with a chance to win $250 in Visa gift cards.

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Gifts that Groove

entertain, holidays, kids, self, Shopping Reviews, tech, toys By November 29, 2015 Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 6 Comments

It’s day 10 of the 12 Days of Christmas Gift Guides and we’re channelling Austin Powers and the Fonz. These are gifts that groove.

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Gifts that Tickle

beauty, GEAR, holidays, kids, Shopping Reviews, tech, toys By November 22, 2015 Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 5 Comments

On day three of our Twelve Days of Christmas Gift Guides we hone in on gifts that tickle our senses and make us mindful of the joys of a life well lived.

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Gifts that Comfort and Soothe

entertain, holidays, Shopping Reviews, toys By November 21, 2015 Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 10 Comments

In the second of our 12 days of Christmas Gift Guides we zero in on gifts that comfort and soothe. The world certainly needs to feel safe and cozy these days and we are convinced a few of these selections may help!

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