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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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	Much Ado About Nothing In our household we look forward to the weekend because it is a time when my husband is at home and we get to spend time together as a family. I recall one sunny weekend last summer when I woke up and exclaimed, “Let’s d... posted: Feb 29, 2012 \| views: 399 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	Take Back the Tap This year my family will toast World Water Day on March 22 with tall glasses of tap water. It may sound unexciting, but having clean drinking water accessible at the turn of a faucet is something worth celebrating. Choos... posted: Feb 29, 2012 \| views: 307 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	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: 1212 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	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: 381 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	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: 329 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	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: 340 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	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: 683 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	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: 482 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	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: 1063 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	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: 340 \| comments: 0 View this article »

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	Much Ado About Nothing In our household we look forward to the weekend because it is a time when my husband is at home and we get to spend time together as a family. I recall one sunny weekend last summer when I woke up and exclaimed, “Let’s d... posted: Feb 29, 2012 \| views: 399 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	Take Back the Tap This year my family will toast World Water Day on March 22 with tall glasses of tap water. It may sound unexciting, but having clean drinking water accessible at the turn of a faucet is something worth celebrating. Choos... posted: Feb 29, 2012 \| views: 307 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	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: 1212 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	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: 381 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	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: 329 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	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: 340 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	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: 683 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	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: 482 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	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: 1063 \| comments: 0 View this article »
	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: 340 \| comments: 0 View this article »

June 2013