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I am a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas jingles. There’s nothing like the golden oldies sung by Jim Reeves, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley in that deep baritone to bring some Christmas cheer and make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. If you don’t have access to your parents’ [...]

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The internet is is a mixed bag of blessings. One chat with the folks in the cyber crime department and you’ll probably ban your kids from getting online until they’re 25. There is so much to consider – phishing attacks, scamming, cyber prowling, identity theft, net bullying…. the list is endless and scary. Did you [...]

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I want my MTV Once the kids were born, the quality of the music we listened to sadly suffered. We put away Floyd and Nirvana to make way for Barney, Wiggles and headache. Couldn’t kids understand slightly more sophisticated music, we wondered. Isn’t there somebody out there listening to our pain? Apparently there was – [...]

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I adored crafts as a kid so I was devastated when I got a cutesy butterfly report card for my pre-schooler that stated how wonderful my daughter is “But she is reluctant to participate in crafts”. Blaming the hiccup on TV, I decided to get her charged with something ‘new’, something ‘different’. I searched online [...]

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What Goes Around… I remember growing up surrounded by a world of imagination, where carpets flew, children walked into fantasies through an old wardrobe, where the story of a girl as old as myself in Nazi Germany absorbed my full attention. Most moms I speak to today are concerned that their kids haven’t developed a [...]

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