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One morning my daughter ran into my home office saying: “Mom, get off the computer I have to Google how to save the world, right now!” She loves researching things. When she was four the passion was dinosaurs. I had to stumble through piles of books ...

Dear Sir, I am a 25-year-old mother of a two-year-old and a one-year-old. This morning I caught the bus, as I do most days of the year, with my double stroller. The bus driver told me that I would no longer be able to board the bus with my double st...

Not every dad would willingly spend their days changing dirty diapers and wiping runny noses. But for stay-at-home dads David LaHuta and Will Caulder it’s proven to be their greatest life adventure so far. Mr LaHuta said he fell into the role of ch...

Pc Arthur Dill would never have dreamed of having his face tattooed when he was a teenager. But some of the young people he encounters as a community action officer are a different ball game. “They don’t think very far into the future,” he said. “The...

Angela Browne loves her family. So much so, she has written a collection of poetry in their honour. The 48-year-old is hoping that her latest book, The Light Switch, will remind locals of a time when Island life was much simpler. She also wants to ...

I’m definitely not a health food junkie. One of our house rules is: any candy received must be shared with mom. However, I do have the occasional qualm about cavities, weight gain and diabetes, so at Halloween I threw half of my daughter’s candy away...

If you live in the East End you might have heard screams coming from my house. You might have heard: “Stop! You’re hurting me! Ahhh ... Leave me alone. You’re abusing me!” It might surprise my neighbours to learn I am not beating my child, merely try...

I’m not sure what the purpose of daylight savings ... whoops dozed off there in the middle of a sentence. Springing forward in time is never fun, but it’s worse when you have a child. At 8pm there was still a glimmer of a sunset. We all admired it. B...

Calvina Simons might just be a baby whisperer. The 31-year-old has a special way with even the smallest of tots. She helps parents get restless newborns to bed and will look after them throughout the night, so their moms and dads can sleep. She al...

School breaks were a problem for Kim Caisey. Her children were 16, ten and four, and finding appropriate care was a nightmare. The younger two had learning challenges; the teenager required a completely different environment. Her frustrations led to ...

She wanted a monkey so we did what any sane parents would do, we bought a goldfish. I explained to my daughter that the two had a lot of similarities, and thankfully she didn’t ask for elaboration. I thought fish would be easy, but there were moments...

People who get their children vaccinated are “sheeples” who follow the flock. That’s the belief of one parent who hasn’t inoculated her kids against diseases such as measles, mumps and rubella. Her opponents call her a lunatic. The vaccination debate...