• Health

    The Protective Factor of Diagnosis and Three Ways to Help a Person with FASD Now

    February 28, 2014 - By 

    When it comes to children and any form of disability early diagnosis and intervention is often key to success. Why is that? Because having a way to frame a child’s behaviour can make all the difference in the world to how you approach that child as a parent, as a therapist, a doctor, or a school. If you try to teach a fish to walk you end up frustrated, but worse than that you end up making the fish feel stupid. Proper diagnosis of FASD is critical to success. So why do we have such difficulty diagnosing and treating children and…

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    Sign The Pledge with Your Teen and Make Roads Safer

    February 27, 2014 - By 

    If you are a parent of a child about to start driving then you want to hear about this pledge to make roads safer.     Driving is one of the biggest rites of passage for a young adult. Getting your driver’s license is an epic event, one children begin fantasizing about from the time they are small. Little boys practice driving their imaginary cars almost as soon as their brains are capable of creative play. Girls too. My oldest daughter just last year pulled her iPhone out at the beach and warned me she was only 1598 days away…

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    Win Family Passes to #DisneyLive Mickey’s Rockin’ Road Show #Ldnont #giveaway

    February 26, 2014 - By 

    My friends know well of my love for all things Disney. Disney Live! Skating shows are always welcome here. I have taken my kids consistently to Disney Live events ever since they were tiny toddlers soaking it all in. There’s something about the live skating show that always makes me feel happy to be a parent. It’s a nice way to take a break and enjoy time together too. This March 16th, Disney Live Mickey’s Rockin’ Road Show will skate on over to Budweiser Gardens. We can’t wait to see it ourselves. I also have set of four tickets to…

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    Signs and Hearts – #WordlessWednesday Linky

    February 25, 2014 - By 

    Do you believe in signs? It was, in fact, Valentine’s Day when we took possession of our new home. As we were moving some boxes in, scoping out the rooms, my youngest daughter hollered: “Mom, come quick!” This was on the rooftop of the house across the street. My youngest girl said: It’s Grandma. She’s been painting in the snow. I have been moving through the last few months healing, but the physical and emotional challenge of moving from the house where I could literally picture my Mom in every room was a hard hurdle to get over. I had…

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    Five Creative Advocacy Ideas For Non Profits – #ivf4on #onpoli

    February 24, 2014 - By 

    My regular readers know I have been working with numerous non profits and charities to build their profiles on social media. I am community manager for Conceivable Dreams, the Ontario patient group advocating for better awareness and access to fertility treatments, and for Generations of Hope in Calgary. Conceivable Dreams has had some brilliant ideas over the last two years and their name/ brand as a non profit is extremely well known now, especially on social media. I am proud to have been part of their team. When we started we had about 50 followers on Twitter and we have…

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    Can you drink alcohol when pregnant? – #PreventFASD

    February 22, 2014 - By 

    Can you drink alcohol when pregnant? It’s a weighty, controversial question. So many popular myths still endorse drinking alcohol as culturally acceptable when pregnant. Many people still believe alcohol is okay to consume in moderate amounts when you are pregnant. This is an interactive post designed to get you thinking about drinking when pregnant and risks associated with that. Interactive and hands on learning works best for my child with FASD – fetal alcohol spectrum disorder – and the same is true of many of our children and young adults diagnosed with FASD. So let’s give this a try.   This…

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    Great Games for Kids – Monopoly Junior

    February 21, 2014 - By 

    Remember how fun regular Monopoly used to be when you were a kid? I do. I used to love playing Monopoly by the hour with my Mom and my brother. It was a childhood favourite. We were super competitive and we played it many Sunday afternoons. Park Place and Board Walk were battled over in fierce territorial disputes. I loved that game, even well before I recognized that it was made by Hasbro, a respected and enduring brand. So when I heard there was a Monopoly Junior in stores I was super interested in seeing how different it was. A…

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    What Makes EEVA Special? #EEVA1stBC

    February 18, 2014 - By 

    Imagine that you are one of the one in six people of reproductive age who struggles with infertility. Very often the medically recommended course of action is in vitro fertilization. The procedure itself can be costly. And like any medical treatment, you want to be sure you are making the best decision for your personal situation, your family. You want the best.    Infertility Treatment in BC Luckily if you live in British Columbia you have some remarkable fertility clinics to choose from and some amazing talented award-winning doctors like Dr. Sonya Kashyap, medical director of @GenesisIVFBC. Kashyap was mentored by Celine Dion’s fertility…

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    When It Takes a Community to Fund Your Family #ohip4ivf #onpoli

    February 18, 2014 - By 

    This post was written by one of the members of Conceivable Dreams. I am community manager for the group.  By Ashley Bulley  They say it takes an entire community to raise a family; in our case it took an entire community to afford one. My husband Adrian Arbos and I were married young. We started trying to conceive when I was 23. We’d been married for five years and we were ready to start a family. But, we couldn’t. We tried. We did all the tests to determine why we were infertile and eventually we discovered that a surgery my husband…

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    Disney Live: Make Your Own Mickey Mouse Ears

    February 16, 2014 - By 

    I am so happy to be able to share another amazing Disney Live family show with you all. Stay tuned next week for a giveaway here on Thrifty Momma’s Tips. But for now I wanted to share a discount code in case you want to go buy some tickets to see this fun family show. Disney Live Mickey’s Rockin’ Road Show takes place in March at Budweiser Gardens in London, Ontario. March 16th to be exact. Use Discount code MUM4 to save. Come back next week to win. Join Mickey and all his pals as they take a road trip…