FamilyNavigation.com » Home Life http://www.familynavigation.com chasing family dreams Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:50:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Summer Reading http://www.familynavigation.com/summer-reading/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.familynavigation.com/summer-reading/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:34:25 +0000 Lisa Pedersen http://www.familynavigation.com/?p=4007

We previously wrote the blog “Read to Your Kids Before Bed Everyday” and I thought this needed an update.

Annika "reading" to Jada, 2008

We still strongly believe in reading to you children everyday.  It takes some time to do but it is worth it, for the kids and youself.  We just signed Annika with the Vancouver Island ...

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I had an idea the other day to make homemade pasta.  I have never made pasta by myself before so I chose a simple recipe for whole wheat linguine with a tomato clam sauce.  My Mother-in-law gave us her old pasta press months ago and we still hadn’t used it which made me feel a bit guilty ...

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Recently we have been discussing the trend towards coddled kids and helicopter parenting and it is probably no surprise if you have read our blogs that we wish our kids to be independent and to appreciate experience over material goods.  I suggested in a previous blog that I felt that one of the reasons this trend towards ...

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I looked around the park nervously to see if anyone was watching us.  I was happily playing with the kids in the neighbouring park before I realized what game we were actually doing. All three kids had brought their favourite ball and we had started playing catch.  Before long I began throwing the balls down the field so ...

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A little while back we looked at the phenomena of helicopter parenting and coddled kids.  After writing that blog I started to think about our decision to leave a larger city and move to a smaller town.  We decided to make the move as a step towards living a slower paced life and to create a ...

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Lisa and I recently watched a documentary called ‘Hyper Parents & Coddled Kids’ which examines the phenomena of Helicopter Parenting.  Helicopter Parents is a term used to describe parents who constantly hover over their children to solve problems that may occur in their lives and make sure they stay safe.  The documentary describes these parents as ...

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Oh how I’m going to miss nap time.  No not my naps … the twins naps.  It is so nice with twins to have a small break in the day to have some time to relax and get some chores done.  Right now the twins nap from 1pm and get up between 3 – 4pm.  Don’t get me wrong, I ...

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]]> http://www.familynavigation.com/nap-time-is-ending-soon/feed/ 0 Pulling the Plug on Cable http://www.familynavigation.com/pulling-the-plug-on-cable/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.familynavigation.com/pulling-the-plug-on-cable/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 02:19:44 +0000 Martin Pedersen http://www.familynavigation.com/?p=3584

We finally did it.  We have talked about it for quite some time but for some reason we always had some reason why it justified the monthly expense.  With the lives we are leading now it simply is not worth the money for us to pay for cable TV.  We have been paying $36 each and every month to ...

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