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JULY 2017 www.themomandcaregiver.com VOLUME 19 ISSUE 7 Happy Birthday Canada! Your Place in the Canadian Quilt Universal Love for Universal Health Care Summer Meal Planning 101 It's Cottage Time How to Kick the Ticks Pregnancy - Baby - Toddler - Preschool - School Age - Family www.themomandcaregiver.com 1 A Free Magazine for Parents and Caregivers CONTENTS EDITORIAL 04 O Canada! 05 EVENTS CALENDAR July PROUD TO BE CANADIAN 06 Universal Love for Universal Health Care 08 AS THEY GROW Being Present THE NEXT STAGE 10 Top Tips to Fight Ticks at the Cottage 12 FRANKLY FATHERHOOD Things People Say BRUSHING UP 13 Keep Your Kids’ Mouths Healthy All Summer 14 BIZ SHOWCASE Elgin County Railway Museum ARE WE THERE YET 15 Under the Boardwalk in Quebec City 16 FOSTERING DREAMS, ADOPTING HOPE No Regrets: A Birth Parent’s Perspective LIFE BALANCE AND HAPPINESS 17 Where does Your Family fit into the Canadian Quilt? 18 PET FRIENDLY Cat Chat: Understanding Your Furry Friend HEALTH MATTERS 19 Become a Better You 21 FOOD FOR THOUGHT Summer Meal Planning 101 WHOLE HEALTH 22 Phyto-What? Age-Fighting Eggplant is Phytonutrient-Packed On The Cover What a happy camper! Michael brought lots of If you have any comments or suggestions, please contact us at love to the photo shoot since his mom and aunties 519.652.9226 or at [email protected]. THE MOM & CAREGIVER is published by Anibas Productions Limited, came too. We love those chunky-monkey thighs in Publications Mail, Agreement Number 40834037 PO Box 29118, London, ON N6K 4L9 - his kimono! Big thanks to Little Labels Boutique for www. themomandcaregiver.com our cover kid's cute outfit. THE MOM & CAREGIVER is distributed FREE of charge. Anibas Productions Limited wel- comes unsolicited contributions. Such material,if published, may be edited. Although Anibas Productions Limited cannot pay contributors, recognition will be given to the Photographer One-12 Photography contributor. Anibas Productions Limited reserves the right to refuse any contributions Photostylist Sabina Manji or ads. Anibas Productions Limited cannot accept responsibility, in any way, for dis- Melissa Warkentin satisfaction or damages incurred by advertisers or their clients. Advertising rates and circulation information is available on request. All rights reserved. Copyright 2017 © 2 July 2017 www.themomandcaregiver.com 3 Sabina Manji - Chief Editor JULY EvEnts 07/2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 June 1-8 London Majors Canada Day Thunderfoot Labatt Park at Harris Park Grand Theatre Happy 150th Birthday Canada! 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The Jitterbugs Sesquifest Canada 150 Trivia Buying the Moose Bob Dylan July 6-9 Wanna Bee Day Springbank Gardens Budweiser Gardens Game Port Stanley Festival Budweiser Gardens TD Sunfest Clovermead Editorial LPL, Jalna Theatre 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Laura Gagnon Runa Twilight Tuesday hike July 12-15 July 12-26 July 14-16 July 14-16 O CANADA! Springbank Gardens Aeolian Hall Longwoods Rock the Park Music Dominion Day! The Vimy Flight Home County Music Conservation Area Festival Musical 427 Wing and Art Festival Fanshawe Pioneer Victoria Park “Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this Village beautiful country will never die.”. Pierre trudeau 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 The Rhythms of Storytime ArtSpace Playgroup July 20-30 Super Stocks, Colombian Gas- Brasil - Brazilian Pop LPL, Central LPL, Masonville LPL, Byron Pride London Trucks, Bone Stocks tronomy Festival feel incredibly privileged to be rais- value the education all children receive feels so much pride in his country at only Springbank Gardens Festival Delaware Speedway Covent Garden Various locations Market Iing my son and publishing a parent- in Canada. And, we feel Canadians are a age 11. ing magazine in this great country of polite and friendly bunch. Canada. My son is growing up in a place But definitely, one of the greatest things 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 where it is encouraged to be who you are We also love the awe-inspiring places about raising a family here is Canada’s July 22-23 Scavenger Hunt Twilight Tuesday Five Alarm Pride Men’s Chorus London Majors Lemon Party – that no matter your skin colour, gen- our country offers. We’ll hear about universal healthcare system. So, many Monster Truck LPL, Central hike Port Stanley Festival London baseball Eldon House Throwdown Longwoods Theatre Aeolian Hall Labatt Park der, sexual orientation or age, you are one such place from Sherri Telenko this of you agree with Dr. Bhayana (find her Delaware Speedway Conservation Area deserving of the same rights and free- month. She takes us to Quebec City to special Canada 150 article on page 6) doms. We practice freedom of speech in an underground museum hiding be- when she celebrates that a CEO and a For More Details and Events Visit our magazine, hearing the opinions and neath a popular riverside boardwalk. homeless person can access the same 30 31 statements of writers from many differ- This historic site was only discovered in quality health care. Imagination Station Storytime Museum London LPL, Central ent walks of life. 2005 – read Sherri’s article on page 15 to find out why. You can visit this national So, this month, Canada, we celebrate Your Online Parenting Resource We reached out to you, our readers, on historic site (and over 200 others) at you! Every singing of “O Canada,” ev- our Facebook page to ask “Why is Can- no cost this summer by ordering a free ery bit of red and white we wear, every ada such an amazing place to raise a Parks Canada Discovery Pass. And what firework we set off, every new citizen we family?” And so many of you shared the better place to visit this Canada Day welcome, is in celebration of 150 years of same sentiments. We’re proud of our than our nation’s capital, Ottawa! My this great nation. We certainly could not July 6-9 July 12-15 July 12-26 diversity and our acceptance of all kinds son, Mikaeel, is so lucky and so excited think of a better place to raise our sons TD Sunfest Rock the Park Music Festival Dominion Day! The Musical of people. We are a peaceful nation. We to be doing just that. I’m thrilled that he and daughters. Happy birthday Canada! Fanshawe Pioneer Village Publisher/Chief Editor Sabina Manji Sabina Manji, Assistant Editor Melissa Warkentin Chief Editor Copy Editor Melanie Drew KIDS CRAVE ATTENTION Designer A. Brophy Creative 519-652-9226 Photographer One-12 Photography Why not give them a stage? Visit danceextreme.com Call 519-657-DANCE [email protected] Photostyling Sabina Manji and Melissa Warkentin 4 July 2017 www.themomandcaregiver.com 5 A Special Canada 150 Column Proud to be Canadian be to Proud UNIVERSAL LOVE FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE t’s a joy to celebrate Canada’s 150th year. How healthy are Canadians? Maternal and infant indicators teens or of low socioeconomic status. Reason to celebrate IWhen we take stock of what makes It’s difficult to define how healthy Ca- Many studies look at maternal and We celebrate this momentous occasion us proud to be Canadian, our universal nadians are. Definitions of health might child health as markers of how a health How universal is our system? but we must evaluate what still needs only include whether or not we have cer- care system is doing. The Public Health Services are covered for everyone but there to be done. I’m proudly Canadian and, health care system is always in our top tain diseases. Others might include risk Agency of Canada (PHAC) has a system are gaps. I’m proud that I can get the same I could not imagine working anywhere three list. A health care system where factors, like obesity. Some indicators called the Canadian Perinatal Surveil- access to tests and specialists for anyone. else. Happy birthday, Canada! a CEO and a homeless person have uni- might look at life expectancy and others lance System. It monitors 52 markers However, the social determinants of health versal access to the same care reflects might look at access to cutting edge in- of maternal and child health, like mor- – low income, poor housing, low education that we value equity and diversity. terventions for cancer and rare diseases. tality, alcohol use in pregnancy, rate of and membership in a marginalized group Dr. Bhooma Bhayana is a family physician in We do quite well in many respects with C-sections, illness in early infancy, etc. (homeless, mental health, First Nations) London and the mother of two young men one of the highest life expectancies and Overall, we do quite well but Canadi- – make it difficult for people to get in the and grandmother of one lovely princess! 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CHEMICAL PEELS • MICRODERMABRASION • LIGHT THERAPY ACNE • ACNE SCAR REVISION • SKIN REJUVENATION SKIN RESURFACING • SKIN TIGHTENING THERAPY VASCULAR LESIONS • PIGMENTED LESIONS BEING PRESENT LASER THERAPY • LASER HAIR REMOVAL BODY CONTOURING • CELLULITE As They Grow As arents and caregivers are bombarded with so “Being with” our children is the key component in Pmany expectations in raising their children.