Resources + Reviews

Over the last few months, reading and learning new things has helped me cope with the uncertainty and changes in our daily routine. Today I’d like to share a book I enjoyed called Intuition: How to Develop it and Use it in Everyday Life. The author, Dr. Cate Howell is a GP, therapist, and educator,… {read more}

Are you looking for a way to encourage your daughters to live life to the fullest, follow their dreams, and feel confident in themselves? This post is an interview with Lily Dyu, author of Fantastic Female Adventurers: Truly amazing tales of women exploring the world. Fantastic Female Adventurers is a collection of fourteen exciting and inspirational… {read more}

We all need a bit more mindfulness in our lives, right?! Imagine having a set of colourful, inspiring cards to pick from, read from, and focus on each day/week at home with your kids. The beautiful “Be Mindful Activity Cards” were created by Stefanie Tocco, founder of Internal Beings which offers programs, workshops, and resources focussed on… {read more}

Along with all the other resources we buy and opportunities we create for our kids to help educate them and equip them with life skills, in today’s hypersexualised society I believe it’s absolutely necessary to figure out how to help children know what to do about pornography. As a parent it’s a scary topic to… {read more}

Gifts are not only a way to show our affection but to inspire our loved ones with a message or a reminder about what we believe is important and worthy of our attention and time.  Here are five gifts for kids to inspire growth and kindness that my family enjoys; I hope that perhaps this… {read more}

Autism.  What is it?  How much do you understand it?  Do your kids know anything about it?  Your answer, of course, will depend on personal experience and/or how much you have researched the topic.  What if that wasn’t the case?  What if everyone had a basic understanding of autism and how they could support their… {read more}

As a homeschooling mother of three, I love and greatly appreciate educational resources that focus on helping our children not only develop academic skills but social skills and positive character traits.  One of my favourite places to search for educational resources is Teachers Pay Teachers which offers over 2.8 million free as well as paid resources…. {read more}

Who in your life would benefit from one of these motivational mousepads? It’s no secret that I’m a lover and collector of inspirational phrases so when I was renovating my office space, I took up the opportunity to search for a new mouse pad! Here were some of my favourite finds: Tell me and I… {read more}

Each day offers parents a series of teachable moments to share with their children life lessons and skills, as well as opportunities to learn from our own parenting experience. However amongst the hustle and bustle of daily living – not to mention the grocery lists, laundry, cleaning, and bills – how often do we have… {read more}

“Can we pleeeease have a movie night?” It’s a question I asked myself as a child, so why would I expect any less from my own kids? I have to admit, though, as an adult I love a family movie night (or, afternoon, I should probably more accurately call it) just as much as the… {read more}

I am so excited to share a new resource with you today!  Virtue Seeds activity books were created by Elaheh Bos, the co-author and illustrator of my storybook Mason’s Greatest Gems, whose mission is to create tools that guide, nurture and inspire change and growth.  These beautiful books are filled with age-appropriate activities to teach good character…. {read more}