Last week as I was doing a morning scroll last Monday I came across a tik-tok reposted to a friend’s account. I saw the woman crying about the dual difficulties of divorce as well as being from a South Asian family. In the second post I had learned that she …
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A worthy competitor to screen time in any household: Board games. How they still rule Friday nights in our house and how they can in yours as well! I’m on summer holiday right now and I zoom back to a time when I was on summer break as a student …
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Dear Ye, I rarely, if ever, write letters to people in the public eye who will never read what I am writing but here I am. Like you, I try to be a devoted dad to my kids. Like you, I have gone through the ups and downs of separation. …
Making exercise and movement a “Family Affair” I have never seen my parents work out in a gym. I mean not once in my lifetime. As a family, most of our movement together would come in the form of walking whether it was a day trip to Canada’s Wonderland, the …
Traveling without your kids is not a guilty pleasure. It’s well-deserved! Living in pandemic times, I often catch myself daydreaming and night dreaming about travel. I look and look again at my Google Photos of all the adventures I have had over the years. While browsing through my albums, I …
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Being a “superfan” on zoom isn’t quite the same as being a “superfan” in-person Over the past two years, one of the major casualties of the pandemic has been children’s activities and sports. In 2019-2020, the older Z and younger Z were a part of no less than 4 activities: …
What happens when you can’t take the family to Los Angeles because of the Pandemic? You take the family to Niagara Falls! I remember vividly on January 4, 2020, booking 3 return flights from Toronto to Los Angeles and happily paying the 1851.00 on my credit card as I had …
My story starts in late 2012 when I, a 35 year old father, together with my two children – a 6 year-old girl and a 3 year-old boy found ourselves in the middle of a major transition in our lives. To be honest, it felt like I was thrown into …