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Après un printemps et un été aussi imprévisibles, difficile de savoir de quoi aura l’air l’automne. Au moment d’écrire ses lignes, la rentrée «devrait» avoir lieu dans quelques semaines et on n’a pas encore d’information nous permettant de se faire une idée du déroulement de la chose. Pire encore, malgré...
Have you noticed that living in Quebec makes it more difficult for our children to develop independence? Why is this? Because each season has its own set of little instructions that children have to learn from year to year. Some examples? In winter, there are mittens and boot felts to...
I am the mother of soon 6 children. I can say, without being mistaken, that the site I have visited the most since the first one arrived is Being born and growing up. The first contractions, a fever that rises too quickly in a toddler, delayed speech, a child who...
Avant même d’avoir des enfants, mon mari et moi aimions la vie simple! Nous aimions vaquer à nos occupations au fil des saisons. Tous les deux assez débrouillards, nous aimions faire les choses nous-mêmes. Philippe s’occupait de l’entretien et la réparation d’un peu tout ce qui se trouvait dans la...
Almost every weekend, during school holidays or spring break, we go out with the family to the forest. Since I was a little girl, I've always spent a lot of time in the woods! Normal, my father, now retired, was a forest entrepreneur. He prospected land, cut wood and...
Positive reinforcement is the best way to motivate children to engage in good behaviour. Those who already use the General store They know, because they almost no longer resort to punishments. That said, using less punishments does not mean giving no more consequences. What is the difference between punishment and...
It was 2015, I had just given birth to Simone my first daughter! As a birth gift, I received a pink colour cover with glitter, on which was written "I can't stop talking on my cellphone». It was kind of all I didn't like. Pink and glitter, English writing and...
To be "obeyed" by our children is the story of our life, the parents! Sometimes fatigue, impatience, discouragement and irritability take over and the task becomes very heavy. Education and its principles seem to change every 10-15 years, like fashion! Before discipline was more focused on obedience itself. Today we...
Imagine for a second that tomorrow you start a new job. This involves a new boss, new colleagues, new expectations, several new functions and a new environment. If I told you that from tomorrow, you also have to get back to physical training, three times a week. To complete it...
It's crazy how busy our weeks are! Work, washing, housekeeping, groceries, homework, social life, 15 minutes of running three times a week, bathing, reading daily stories, preparing meals (balanced of course!), maintaining the land, seasonal rotation of clothing, sports items, visit of grandparents, lark. When my in-laws offered to enrol...
