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The Joys of the Neighbourhood Playgroup

by Carrie Snyder, Posted Feb 5th 2010 12:05PM

It's 9:30 on a Wednesday morning, and the older children have made their way to school. The smell of fresh-brewed coffee wafts through our house. A loaf of banana bread, baked and frozen last week, has been thawed and sliced, and sits on a plate ...
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Delivering Birthday Party Invitations: An Unexpected Workout

by Carrie Snyder, Posted Jan 29th 2010 4:00PM

At Cabin Fever we aim to make room for everyone in the family to participate, however small or tall the activity. In our last post, our almost-seven-year-old made her own birthday invitations. Thus, our Saturday afternoon plan: to deliver ...
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Holiday Baking with Children

by Carrie Snyder, Posted Dec 22nd 2009 3:00AM

The children start their Christmas vacation earlier than usual this year, leading Cabin Fever to think: nothing like a little holiday baking to fill the hours with festive cheer. I have in mind an all-family project. Wouldn't it be merry to prepare ...
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Soup and Gratitude

by Katie Workman, Posted Dec 23rd 2008 3:00PM

Welcome to Dishing it Out, ParentDish's weekly food column. Katie Workman lives in New York City with her husband and two boys, Jack and Charlie. By day she is the Editor-in Chief of the recipe website Cookstr.com. You can read all of the Dishing ...
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Halloween as community event

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Oct 29th 2008 2:00PM

What's the reason you celebrate Halloween? Around our house, there's the whole costume thing and participating in the school activities, but when it comes to trick-or-treating, candy is only part of the story. The real reason we wander around the ...
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Football-stealing granny gets a pass

by Sandy Maple, Posted Oct 23rd 2008 6:00PM

Judging by the comments on the story about 89-year-old Edna Jester being arrested for refusing to return her neighbor's football, I think you will all be pleased with the latest development in that story. The Blue Ash, Ohio prosecutor has decided to ...
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Are your kids noisy?

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Jul 8th 2008 5:00PM

And, if so, does it bug your neighbors? Do your neighbors go so far as to complain to you about it? And, if they do, do you care? I live in New York City, in Brooklyn, in an apartment. I am surrounded, in my condo complex, by people to the right of ...
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The joys of urban neighbours

by Nadine Silverthorne, Posted Aug 12th 2007 4:05PM

With the craziness of housing prices everywhere, we settled on a neighbourhood that hadn't quite yet become "desirable." While the adjacent 'hoods are gentrified and rather pricey, it's safe to say we won't be getting a Starbucks anytime soon. I kind ...
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Rectifying a bad impression on the neighbours

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Jul 24th 2007 12:10PM

The mornings are a little darker as the summer days shorten, and when Nolan woke up at 5:30 on Wednesday, the drizzle outside and the ongodly hour strained my eyes. I made my way unsteadily toward the coffee pot, yawning and smoothing Nolan's rumpled ...
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Do you know your neighbours?

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Apr 22nd 2007 1:00PM

My childhood street was located in typical mid-sized city suburbia: box-shaped houses with tiny bedrooms and open carports. I think every house but one had a kid or two, most of them elementary-school aged. The Moms all knew each other by first name, ...
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