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FEBRUARY 2018 www.themomandcaregiver.com VOLUME 20 ISSUE 2 A Magical Valentine's Treat Hot Fudge Cake The Power of Language Watch Your Words True Love vs. Toxic Love Take the Test Our WONDER-ful Winners Be Kind. Always. Cupid's Cutie Pregnancy - Baby - Toddler - Preschool - School Age - Family Follow Us www.themomandcaregiver.com 1 A Free Magazine for Parents and Caregivers 2 February 2018 CONTENTS EDITORIAL 04 "Remember to Love Yourself!" 05 EVENTS CALENDAR February AS THEY GROW 06 The Power of Language 08 THE NEXT STAGE Where to Go When Your Child Is Sick CELEBRATING 20 YEARS 10 Where Are They Now? 11 BRUSHING UP Is Chewing Gum Bad for Your Teeth? FRANKLY FATHERHOOD 12 Have Kids, Will Travel! 13 KID ZONE The Lost Art of Letter Writing BIZ SHOWCASE 14 The Village Cleaner 15 ARE WE THERE YET Seek Out the Secret Gardens of Myrtle Beach FOSTERING DREAMS, ADOPTING HOPE 16 A Heart-Stretching Journey 17 LIFE BALANCE AND HAPPINESS True Love vs. Toxic Love PET FRIENDLY 18 What Makes a Good Pet Food? 19 BEAUTY AND WELLNESS Beauty on a Budget FOOD FOR THOUGHT 21 Super Power Pancakes 22 WONDER-FUL WINNERS Be Kind. Always. SPLASH ON! 23 How Long Will It Take My Child To Learn To Swim? On The Cover Everleigh and our photographer, Cynthia, go way If you have any comments or suggestions, please contact us at back, and they embraced each other with hugs. 519.652.9226 or at [email protected]. THE MOM & CAREGIVER is published by Anibas Productions Limited, Everleigh is an amazing listener who seemed to be Publications Mail, Agreement Number 40834037 PO Box 29118, London, ON N6K 4L9 - able to do five things at once. And wow, she can www. themomandcaregiver.com work a hat! A huge thanks to Little Labels Boutique THE MOM & CAREGIVER is distributed FREE of charge. Anibas Productions Limited welcomes unsolicited contributions. Such material,if published, may be edited. Although for her cute outfit. Anibas Productions Limited cannot pay contributors, recognition will be given to the contributor. Anibas Productions Limited reserves the right to refuse any contributions Photographer One-12 Photography or ads. Anibas Productions Limited cannot accept responsibility, in any way, for dissatisfaction or damages incurred by advertisers or their clients. Advertising rates and Photostylist Sabina Manji circulation information is available on request. All rights reserved. Copyright 2018 © Melissa Warkentin Follow Us www.themomandcaregiver.com 3 Sabina Manji - Chief Editor Editorial "REMEMBER TO LOVE YOURSELF!" As I write this editor’s note, I can’t help This story connected me to another warm moment. but feel overwhelmed by the love I Following the passing of my Mother, I received a was given surrounding our January handwritten card and letter from a reader, acknowledging 2018, 20th anniversary edition. I that I’d shared my grief in the magazine. She said that, can’t say thank you enough to all although we’d never met, she was with me as I went the members of this, our Mom through my journey. To be loved and to love, life’s sweet and Caregiver community. reward! For 20 years, we have lived, February is the month of love. Love shows itself in many laughed, loved and cried ways. Love embraces romance, happiness, laughter and through a myriad of tests and tears. trials, joys and triumphs. Love is also experienced through sharing so please join us So many people have reached out to on Facebook and Instagram. We’ll show you how much tell their story. Through these exchanges, you mean to us by giving away prizes all year along from I’ve felt needed and cared about. our advertisers and continue keeping you involved in this magazine. Since I’ve been referred to as London's Oprah Recently, during a presentation, a colleague asked me to after the January cover came out, who knows what we "Love is our true share a memory that had a significant impact on me. I will be giving away this year! Hmm, Lexus? destiny. We do not recalled the time a reader stopped me in a restaurant and find the meaning asked if I was Sabina from The Mom & Caregiver. When I Happy Valentine’s Day! And, remember to love yourself! of life by ourselves said yes, she started to cry and told me how we had saved alone - we find her life as she had gone through some rough times. Our i t w i t h a n o t h e r . " magazine helped to keep her connected to the outside ~ Thomas Merton world. She joined a mom’s group that she had seen on our calendar. And she started to get involved with the community. She felt we were her lifeline to begin over again. Publisher/Chief Editor Sabina Manji Sabina Manji, Assistant Editor Melissa Warkentin Chief Editor Copy Editor Melanie Drew Designer SlyFox Digital Media Marketing 519-652-9226 Photographer One-12 Photography [email protected] Photostyling Sabina Manji and Melissa Warkentin 4 February 2018 FEBRUARY EVENTS 02/2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday ndo do 1 2 1 2 3 For More Details and Events Visit Amelia Curran Emerging Artist Friday Social Dance Feb. 2-3 Aeolian Hall Classical Series German Canadian London Golf Show Aeolian Hall Club & Sale Western Fair Your Online Parenting Resource 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 The Pirates of Feb. 5-6 Nature in the City Feb. 7-8 Western Mustangs Chris Hadfield Family Valentine's Penzance Cinderella (Reviving Indigenous Dairy Congress 2018 Hockey Canada 151 Tour Party Western University Budweiser Gardens Knowledge) Western Fair Thompson Arena Centennial Hall LPL, Stoney Creek Wolf Performance Hall 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Imagination Station Stargazing Night Beginning with Baby Seasons of Love Art Talks with Bealart Music for Young 2018 Firehall Reunion Museum London Hume Cronyn LPL, Cherryhill Western University Artlab Gallery Children London Children's Memorial London Children's Museum Observatory Museum 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 London Lightning Family Fun Day Nature in the City Expo Explore The Debaters Live! Storytime Saturday Morning Budweiser Gardens Museum of Ontario (Walk on the Wild Museum London On Tour LPL, Jalna Walk (Cavendish Archaeology Side) Centennial Hall Trail) Wolf Performance West Lion's Park Hall 25 26 27 28 Imagination Station Storytime The Preschool at Beginning with "Congratulations on your 20th! I love your events Museum London LPL, Central Crouch Toddler and calendar. It gives me great ideas of what to do with LPL, Crouch Storytime LPL, Beacock the kids!" Leanne R., avid reader Museum London Feb. 2-3 Feb. 7-8 February 14 London Golf Show & Sale Dairy Congress 2018 Seasons of Love Western Fair Western Fair Western University February 19 February 21 February 25 Family Fun Day Expo Explore Imagination Station Museum of Ontario Archaeology Museum London Museum London KIDS CRAVE ATTENTION Why not give them a stage? Visit danceextreme.com Call 519-657-DANCE Follow Us www.themomandcaregiver.com 5 Newborn - Baby - Toddler THE POWER OF LANGUAGE As They As Grow e talk to our children even before they are described as independent, confident, and mature (he Wborn, with languages of love, hope, awe and was two years old). If my brother had been a girl, he attachment. We know that talking to our infants and may have been described as spoiled, jealous or cold. toddlers is important for language development, intelligence, emotional health and well-being. These gender familiar descriptions can be the first However, what about language that might be limiting chapter in stories where boys are expected to be to our child’s development? What about language strong and girls are seen as over-emotional and unable that begins to tell them a story of how they are seen to cope. and who they will become that may have nothing to do with who they truly are? Consider your child’s uniqueness; the gifts of being emotionally sensitive as a boy who becomes a man As a therapist, I have heard countless people describe or strongly independent as a girl who grows into a themselves in negative ways that were most likely woman. Part of the richness of being a parent is to born of language they heard as babies and young discover who our children really are, separate from us children: princess, tough guy, drama queen, fighter, and separate from the familiar stories of their gender. whiner, instigator, baby, etc. Not only are these terms What do our children’s true personalities have to offer limiting to a child’s personality development, but the world? Our babies and toddlers regardless of their they’re often based on gender stereotypes that persist gender can be bright, sensitive, determined, relaxed, and negatively affect individuals across our society. thoughtful, brave, happy, angry, disappointed, active, focused, etc. As we talk to our babies and toddlers, we Whether we like it or not, gender often changes the have the profound opportunity to use language that way we and others interact with our children. When is about their unique strengths and their individual we use gender-specific descriptions of our children’s challenges, separate from their gender but intimately behaviour, they begin to sense which behaviours and connected to their humanness and all that they have expressions of emotion will be well received and which to offer the world ahead of them. will be rejected. My own mom described my older brother as “strong” in his stoic presentation when she brought him home from the hospital as a newborn. 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