My daughter loves crafting! I love crafting with her … sometimes. The best craft kits for kids are the ones that their parents do not hate. She has received many crafting kits that drive me insane: too much glitter, too many teeny tiny beads, not enough glue that doesn’t stick anyway, and a finished product […]
The Best Logic Games for Kids
My son is an intellectual. Forget team sports or laser tag, Cub likes books, animals, video games, superheroes and puzzles. For his 10th birthday, we took his friends to an escape room. Being the oldest of 4, he doesn’t get a ton of one-on-one time with us to play board games, so when he needs […]
My Life as a Marvel Mom
I was a fangirl long before the term existed. The Babysitter’s Club and Sweet Valley High? Read them all and knew the characters as if they were my real-life besties. But The X-Files is where I really got into fandom. Taping and rewatching episodes, pouring over magazines and official and unofficial guides, cos-playing (or, “dressing […]
Maman Loup Gets a Tattoo
First up: if the title of this blog post doesn’t rhyme in your head, either you’ve been pronouncing the name of my blog wrong or there’s a P on the end of tattoo that I don’t know about. Segue time! The name of my blog both rhymes with tattoo and is deeply related to my […]
3 Pokémon Educational Activities
My son has been into Pokémon since he was 5. For almost as long, I’ve been searching for Pokémon educational activities! Now age 9, he’s still a big fan. (Pokémon has outlasted Ninjago and Bey Blades!) He plays Pokémon games on the Nintendo Switch, collects the cards (but doesn’t play the card game), dressed as […]
Thrift It Up at the TTMAC Sale!
Used Clothing, Toys and Gear for Kids Back in the early days of motherhood, when I had just one little wolf cub to care for and we lived in Montreal, my neighbour introduced me to the wonderful world of second-hand twins and triplets sales. Contrary to what I’m sure none of you are thinking, this […]
7 Low-Prep, Low-Cost Toddler Activities
As hard as it is, I really do like being a stay-at-home mom to my twins. However, I liked being a stay-at-home mom to my older two a lot better because … it wasn’t during a pandemic! Good toddler activities are a must! I kept my sanity parenting my first two as toddlers by doing […]
Gamer Math = Math Tutorials for Gamers
A note from Maman Loup: Back when I lived in Montréal, I would often be working with my own students a few desks over from where my friend Julian would be working with his. Secondary math is hard … and it is often not struggling students’ favourite subject. Because I’m an eavesdropper, I always heard […]
The Top 3 Reasons Your Brand Needs an Editor
Guest Post by Laura Bontje You’re a communicator—even if that’s not your job. Whenever you write a product description, a social media post, or a story for your website, you’re using the power of your words to inspire your readers to act. And whenever you write, you should edit. Not all companies have dedicated editors […]
Book Recommendations from My 8-Year-Old
Alright, he’s not quite 8 yet, but by the time I get around to publishing this list, he will be very close. (Spoiler alert: He has, in fact, turned 8 since I wrote that intro.) My son reads two to four books a (non-school) day on average, so since the libraries opened up here, I’ve been […]
6 Activities for Minecraft Lovers
It’s hard to remember a time in my parenting life without Minecraft. It would’ve been around age 5 that my son requested we download it for him on the iPad because he’d seen older kids at his daycare playing it. Admittedly, I knew very little about the game, but moms with older kids had raved […]
How Writing a YA Novel Helped Me Come Out at 39
Guest post by Dani Jansen Is it weird that I’m sometimes jealous of the main character in my own book? Don’t get me wrong! I do NOT want to go back to high school. Okay. You might argue I never left—I’m a high school teacher—but there is a big difference between watching the show and […]
7 Educational & Fun Podcasts for Kids
When I rustled up an “old school” iPod touch for my son last summer, I started finding him podcasts to listen to and for us to listen to in the van together. Given current circumstances, we aren’t driving around much anymore, but when we do, we’ve been laughing and learning along the way. (Our primary […]
5 Summer Sanity-Saving Activities for Kids and Parents
If you’re expecting me to propose this list of sanity-saving activities as a remedy to the excessive and toxic screen time you are irresponsibly allowing your children to consume … you don’t know me very well. Normally, the two months of summer break are the longest stretch of time when I have all four of […]
From Foster Cat to Fur-ever Friend
If you’ve been following me since the beginning, back when I had more cats than children (it was a 2:1 ratio), you’ll know I’ve always had a soft spot for felines. The truth is, although I guilted my parents into not one but two dogs as an adolescent, once I moved out and left them […]
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