Runners and Booties Fitness Contest
Do you use a stroller to help you work out? Tell us which one is your favourite (comment below) and you could win a $150 gift certificate to Lululemon!
Kick Start Your Weekly Workout! Shop n’ Stroll Comes to Vancouver
Join us every Thursday morning starting March 18th, 2010 at 9:30 for Shop n’ Stroll Fitness Class at Oakridge Centre. Shop n’ Stroll is a fitness Class that turns your stroller into a portable fitness machine and takes baby along for the ride. The classes consist of a power walking combined with body sculpting exercises using exercise tubing, the stroller and the shopping mall environment with the last 15 minutes devoted to socializing for moms and baby. Dads welcome too. Class is sponsored by Oakridge Centre and free to attend! Read the story »
Miraj Hammam
I’m really not much of a spa person. I can’t relax, I get bored, and I just want my nails to dry already. I have to turn my cell phone off, and most estheticians make me feel like my skin is dry (not enough water) and I have cellulite (too much coffee). Thanks. Needless to say, I didn’t enter the Miraj Hammam Spa expecting to feel much better about myself upon departure. They proved me wrong. I entered (late) into the gorgeous space and was made to feel instantly at ease – not ostracized at all for the tardiness or for not knowing where to put my shoes when I donned the slippers one wears to the ‘baths’. Read the story »
Donate to Haiti through the Red Cross
Thousands of earthquake survivors in Haiti are desperate for aid. Please click here to donate to the Canadian Red Cross. You can also text “Haiti” on your Canadian cell phone to 45678, and $5 will be added to your cell phone bill and donated to rescue efforts. We are so fortunate to have homes, blankets for our children and fresh water. Any amount you are able to give will make a difference. UrbanMommies has made a donation, and we will will be investigating other ways that we can help. We will keep our readers informed of what we can all do together.
Reading the Classics
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Note… if you can’t find childcare for New Year’s… it’s a good night to crack open one of these tomes. Feel free to comment on this article and add some of your own selections. For your kids? See our Get Reading section.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien Read the story »
Canada is very fortunate to have so many amazing Support Societies and services for parents. Urbanmommies.com is has the pleasure of being able to provide you with an extensive list of the free resources that are available to you and your family.
Being a parent really is the best thing in the world. Some of the best moments come from events and activities that you can plan and participate in with your children. Getting out with your family is a great opportunity to socialize with other families and children, not to mention a day out on the town usually means a little less clean up at home!
Leaving your child in someone else’s care is such a big decision. Urbanmommies.com helps give you some of the questions and information you need to make informed choices.
Urbanmommies.com believes and supports all the benefits of reading to your baby. Aside from the amazing bonding experience, research on infant brain development tells us that babies who are talked to, sung to and read to by their caregivers exhibit language skills greater than those children who received little verbal stimulation. A child’s experience in the first three years of life directly impacts their later development and learning. So, snuggle up, pick up a book and give your child the gift of a lifetime.
Food and eating are not only an essential part of living, they are also one of life's greatest pleasures. It’s important to make time to not only eat but to enjoy what you are eating. Urbanmommies.com brings you some simple and healthy recipes that you and your family will enjoy, and when the time comes that your baby’s palette requires more than milk, we’ve included some fun and healthy options for baby too!
Figuring out the household finances, RESP's, organizing play groups, and making enough time in the day for you can seem to be a daunting task. Urbanmommies.com helps uncover some great tips and ways to help you save money and time.
Sure you are busy taking care of your little one(s), your house and maybe even working,but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't be taking time out for you to eat healthy, do some exercise or even just breathe. YOU are important and taking care of yourself and time out for yourself will help bring you more energy which you're going to need on those no sleep nights!!
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