Should We Let Our Kids Watch Movies in the Car?

“This is a very nice van for you; it has a built in DVD player”.  This was the sales pitch we received when we were van shopping a few years back.  Lisa was pregnant with the twins and with Annika running around beside us it was obvious to the sales person that this was going to be …

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Tag-Team Irrational Kids

When Annika was two years old we learned that we would have better luck reasoning with a politician then her at that age.  Around the time she turned three she seemed to instantly gain some sort of conscience and we could usually come up with some sort of rational compromise.  That day cannot come soon enough with the twins. 

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Tolerating Silliness

Annika likes being silly.  She thinks that when she is called a ‘silly girl’ that she has just received the highest compliment possible.  Annika is also not shy at all.  She has no problem going up to people and talking to them.  Sometimes she makes us proud, other times she makes us laugh, and once in a …

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Art Festival Inspiration

When I was driving the moving truck towards Vancouver Island 13 months ago I knew that we had created a huge challenge for our family.  Lisa and I had chosen the place we wanted our family to live and we could picture how our future was supposed to be.  We wanted to work out of our …

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Using Competition to Motivate Kids

There is a reason why our website is called FamilyNavigation.com and not FamilyGotItAllFiguredOut.com.  We are sailing the wild seas of life with three young kids and we do not know which way to go but together we will figure it out.  We do not know what is best for our family all the time and we …

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Thoughts on Sailing as a Kid - Lisa's Story

As a young creative “Vancouver Islander” I learned many things going sailing with my family and this is by no means a complete story.  I could write an entire book on the subject.  In an effort not to bore you I’ll try to make it somewhat short.

I was two when my parents first started taking my brother and I …

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Growing Up a Sailor - Martin's Story

Lisa and I together are trying to create a slower paced world to raise our kids in.  We both place a lot of value in not cramming our day with a lot of activities and just let the day happen.  We have done a lot of travelling together and even then we would always go at …

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Our Top 10 Family Lifestyle Overhaul Songs

It is almost a year since we made this huge leap in our lives so to celebrate 1 year of change… time to make a mixed tape!!  Here are the top 10 songs from our song library that seem to fit to what we are trying to accomplish; at least in the way that we interpreted them.  I realized …

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