As your children gets ready to return to school, Elementary or High School age, likely things are ready to go. School supplies, special clothes or gym equipment are ready for that first day. But what can you do as a parent to make this year a roaring success? Here is my list of 5 must dos for you when it comes to teachers or schools: Visit with the classroom teacher as soon as possible. Just 5 minutes to introduce yourself and indicate how you support what he/she is doing

As things continually change around us, from what is happening in the U.S. to our own province of Ontario, many of you may be looking for some stability, some sense of tradition and predictability. The answer may be flying around you. This past weekend, we attended a seminar on the harvesting of honey from bees. It was a great 2 hours of stories and a demonstration with a hands on chance to uncap a frame and then taste the honey. It was offered by Bria Lee’s Bees, a start

You likely have a cell phone. The brand doesn’t matter much for our discussion today, but let’s say it takes 1.5 hours to fully charge your phone if it is without power. You likely do that many times a day. Recharging a phone is the lifeblood of the service. If you don’t do that, the phone is useless. As humans, we also have a “recharge” need. Part of that is done when we sleep. Our brain shuffles our day in nice neat boxes for storage, processes good and bad experience

A couple of weeks ago while fishing a stream, I came in contact with some type of weed or toxic plant that gave me poison ivy like symptoms on my arm. It itches. It’s a pain and gets worse as the heat picks up. Wearing long sleeves and seeking out the assistance of a pharmacist has helped greatly, but it’s still a bother. Like my poison ivy or poison oak, this time of the year many households are experiencing the “itch.” Children are moody, parents grumpy and the clock is