by DanielleBinns | Aug 24, 2015 | Recipes |
Milk. It does a body good. But does it do as much “good” as we think? Giving our children milk after their first birthday is a nutrition protocol that many parents follow. And understandably so. Milk supplies the calcium, vitamin D, vitamin B12, protein,...
by DanielleBinns | Aug 20, 2015 | Picky Eaters, Recipes
Kudos to all the single moms out there. I’ve been getting a taste of what life would be like as a single mom with two kids and it is tough (HUGE understatement). Here’s the detail that I neglected to mention for fear of being judged…I have only...
by DanielleBinns | Aug 18, 2015 | Mommy Mantra
I couldn’t sleep last night. There was too much excitement knowing that our amazing nanny was back, after visiting family for 5 weeks in Indonesia. Five weeks with a 2 year old, a newborn, and a new business was more than I could (or wanted to) handle alone. ...
by DanielleBinns | Aug 11, 2015 | Recipes
As much as I adore living in Canada, our summers are much too short. With only three months of solid summer weather, we are in our boots before we get our bathing suits on [sigh]. My husband and I try to squeeze the most out of the season, and this weekend we headed...
by DanielleBinns | Aug 5, 2015 | Feeding strategies, Kids' nutrition, Picky Eaters |
I have always had a healthy appetite, so watching my daughter subsist on two blueberries was baffling and concerning. Despite eating ‘solids’ for over 18 months, I could only recall her requesting food a handful of times. But today something rare...
by DanielleBinns | Aug 4, 2015 | Mommy Mantra
Our daughter, the selective eater, made history the other week. She ate sausage for the first time and enjoyed it. This was a big deal for a chipmunk – I mean a child – who was notorious for holding hard-to-chew foods in her mouth. I almost cried tears...
by DanielleBinns | Aug 1, 2015 | Picky Eaters
Let me just say that I don’t love labelling our kids in any way, especially not as “picky eaters” (or other unspoken names I feel like throwing out when they drive me crazy!). Here’s why: If they hear us call them “picky eaters”,...
by DanielleBinns | Jul 31, 2015 | RSS
It was mid-June and our short Canadian summer was about to make an appearance. It’s no surprise that my husband and I anxiously agreed to an annual cottage weekend in the Muskokas (the Hamptons of the North) with close friends who we only see twice a year. A...
by DanielleBinns | Jul 15, 2015 | RSS |
As many of you may already know from reading my story, or from my “Holistic Solutions” Facebook group, motherhood rattled my world when our first daughter was diagnosed with both a congenital heart condition and a genetic mutation called Russell Silver...
by DanielleBinns | Jul 7, 2015 | Mommy Mantra |
During my first maternity leave I rarely ventured far from home. My first daughter (Sienna) despised the car seat. Whether it was 5 or 50 minutes, the drive would end with her screaming and mommy covered in vomit. So I opted to stay out of the car and close...