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Take a look at this month's articles provided by Island Parent Magazine. Each month you'll find new articles with topics on parenting your children of any age. Written largely by local authors, these articles provide some great perspectives related to parenting, both on and off the island.
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Helping Your Child Deal with Peer Conflict
When children are experiencing problems with peer conflict, it’s natural for parents to want to come to their rescue, swooping in to solve the problem and protect their children. One of the best things parents can do, ho...
posted: Feb 1, 2012 | views: 99 | comments: 0
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A Homeschool Primer
It’s Tuesday afternoon, around two o’clock, and the sales clerk in the toy store has noticed my two children diligently comparing prices on Lego and Playmobil. Her interest is piqued. She wants to know why they’re not in...
posted: Feb 1, 2012 | views: 25 | comments: 0
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Where Teaching Begins
What is love?
I’m sitting with a group of four-year-olds and am curious to know what they think.
Love means you fall in love and you are going to marry.
It means you want to be nice and help your little brother....
posted: Feb 1, 2012 | views: 18 | comments: 0
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The Art of Unconsumption
There are times I’m tempted to take a snowplow through my house. I can spend hours tackling the clutter—cleaning, tidying, shoving things into cupboards—but when I turn around five minutes later, the living room floor ha...
posted: Feb 1, 2012 | views: 22 | comments: 0
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Where the Heck Were Your Parents
My twin brother Brian and I had a great childhood: our parents loved us, supported us and somehow found the strength to not beat the living mess out of us as we ran feral across rural Georgia (that’s the gravy-n-biscuit ...
posted: Jan 4, 2012 | views: 307 | comments: 0
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Make the Ordinary Extraordinary
There’s nothing that thrills me more than to see my children get excited—the squeals of delight, the little eyes that light up and sparkle, innocent and unadulterated exclamations of “Wow!” Their delight in the simplest ...
posted: Jan 4, 2012 | views: 38 | comments: 0
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How to Encourage Your Child to Speak French
To say that trying to get my children to speak French is très difficile would be an understatement. Despite the bilingual and increasingly multi-cultural nature of Canada, chances are that in most of the country you will...
posted: Jan 4, 2012 | views: 60 | comments: 0
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Waste Not, Want Not
I had a privileged childhood. Not because my family was wealthy—we weren’t—but because my mother was immensely resourceful. I was two years old when my parents crossed the border into Canada from the United States. Every...
posted: Jan 4, 2012 | views: 35 | comments: 0
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An Heirloom of Tears
I’ve known this story all my life. My father was one lucky—tragic, but lucky—guy. Through the kindness and courage of others, my father survived the Holocaust. His mother and father were not so lucky, and they died, youn...
posted: Nov 30, 2011 | views: 265 | comments: 1
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The Real Life Play House
I use to think that I was a good judge of character. I thought I knew my family and close friends well. I thought I knew myself. That was before I had children. Now, I am suddenly discovering sides of people and aspects ...
posted: Nov 30, 2011 | views: 104 | comments: 0
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