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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.
Who are any of us, really, to offer parenting tips? Every child, parent and relationship are so different, and this is why UrbanMommies is less a blog, and more a pragmatic, information-based online magazine with more information than opinions. But… there is always more to learn and tricks of the trade can be very helpful in making our lives easier and more manageable. We’ve listed a few tips on parenting, but would also like for you to add your own in the comments section. We’ll read them all and the readers who give our favourite two ideas will receive a coupon for a free bottle of POM. Read more
You’ve got the most fabulous dress. And the shoes. And the champagne. And… whoops. The kids. A babysitter is pretty much impossible, or prohibitively expensive on New Year’s Eve. If you ask family the guilt will consume you all night. Let’s think outside the box, shall we – without compromising your attachment to the kids, or our hip and savvy selves? UrbanMommies has a few ideas about how you can make the evening special for yourself and the kids. Read more
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 more
Are you doing laundry? Forget to turn out the lights sometimes? Did you know that if we don’t change our ways, there will be very little world to leave our kids, (and UrbanMommies will be kind of pointless). With the Olympics coming to Vancouver, this community wants to create something new and wonderful while the world watches BC. Eagle Island, a typical neighbourhood 90 feet off the West Vancouver shore, wants to get off the grid. But not in the Swiss-Family-Robinson way. Read more
