Foods to Avoid Eating Over the Holidays

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A Healthy Halloween for Kids (and Adults)

Halloween is a fun time of year for everyone, young or old. Dressing up as your favourite character, lots of parties and trick-or-treating. The problem for parents is deciding what to do with those big trick-or-treat bags full of candy and sweet treats. With childhood obesity on the rise, loading up on all that sugar isn't a great idea. Here are some tips to help control your children's consumption of treats...

The slice.ca Guide to Cleaning Your Home

What is it about spring that makes us want to fill up buckets of hot soapy water and clean our homes from top to bottom? I love a clean home myself, but finding the time to do a regular weekly clean, let alone a marathon spring clean, is beyond my organizational abilities.

Good Nutrition for a Happy and Healthy Pregnancy

Maybe you have decided to try to get pregnant, or have found out you already are. Congratulations! Your first step is to educate yourself about how to be the healthiest you possibly can be before and during your pregnancy. Your body goes through many changes during pregnancy. To support these changes, you must modify your diets nutrients and energy.

Are You Done With Debt?

Gail Vaz-Oxlade, star of ‘Til Debt Do Us Part and author of the forthcoming Debt-Free Forever, has 5 fantastic tips for getting out of the mess you might have made with that credit card burning a hole in your wallet.

Family Party Survival Guide

I love Christmas, but I find the holidays stressful – especially when I have to gather with family and in-laws that I normally don’t see throughout the year.

Survive the Mom-mobile

I recently blogged about the ever-sensitive issue of minivan moms. As in, you're a mom and you've chosen to embrace this style of domestic travel. Or conversely, you're a mother and the mere thought of driving a family van makes you squirm uncomfortably.

Surviving Your Teenage Adventure

A lot of the time, teens don't realize the reasons and influences behind why they do what they do. Here, two teens talk about navigating the wilds of adolescence and making the most out of those complicated years.

Survive a Trip With the Women In Your Life

Women-only trips and girlfriends' getaways are more popular than ever, and many women are choosing their daughters, mothers, aunts or even grandmothers as their travel partners. If you are thinking about planning a trip with the most important women in your life for the sake of girls-only bonding, here are a few tips to help make sure your getaway is a success.

Survive Your Worst Parenting Moments: Part 2

Sometimes our kids make us bust with pride at how well they're turning out, while other times we wonder how we could have gone so far wrong as parents. Family therapist and author Jennifer Kolari has been working with families and children for 20 years. She's also the mother of three children. Her book, Connected Parenting, will be published by Penguin Canada in May 2009.

Survive Your Worst Parenting Moments: Part 1

Sometimes our kids make us bust with pride at how well they're turning out, while other times we wonder how we could have gone so far wrong as parents. Family therapist and author Jennifer Kolarihas been working with families and children for 20 years. She's also the mother of three children. Her book, Connected Parenting, will be published by Penguin Canada in May 2009.

The First Year of Being a Parent

The first year caring for an infant ranks right up there with some of the greatest challenges known to humanity. It can even hold its own against other firsts, such as your first year living on the space centre or your first year as president of the United States.

Help! My Friends Are All Having Kids!

After surviving the mega-year of pocket-draining weddings (everyone’s got that one season where the wedding invites just won’t stop coming) comes the next milestone in the lives of your best girlfriends: the baby boom. And though all your girls are beyond proud and beaming with joy, you’re feeling slightly jilted because you’re missing the quality time and daily talks with your BFFs.

The L Word

After clearing my six-year-old son of lice, my two girls came home with the same problem two weeks later – and we've been waging war ever since. We have the head lamp with the magnifying glass and we use a LiceMeister comb, which is excellent. We've even used one of the lice shampoos (Resultz), which kills the lice but not the nits. This really is where the fight begins and ends.

Surviving The Loss Of A Pet

When a cherished pet dies, it becomes clear that society is not all that comfortable on how to handle such a passing. The death of a human has many rites and traditions, and those around us know how to behave. Sadly, the same cannot be said for when a beloved animal companion dies.

First Year of Marriage

Your wedding was the ultimate dream day and the honeymoon was even better, but now your real marriage is beginning. As every newlywed knows, the struggles during the first few months of marriage bring their own set of challenges.

Kids and Money

Before children can learn to manage money well, they need to be able to get their hands on the stuff. Most people have no problem with that concept. But when it comes to what you should ask of your children in exchange for that allowance, the debate rages.

Planning Your Wedding

A head start on planning can quell wedding day mishaps and help you avoid hiccups along the way. Here are some survival tips to help get you get started.

Wedding Guest Survival Guide

Being a bride is stressful. There’s so much to plan, do, eat, et cetera. But you know what else is stressful? Being invited to three or four weddings a summer whilst pondering why you (who is, frankly, smarter and hotter than these brides-to-be) are still living single.

Dating As A Single Parent

Dating can be an awful experience at the best of times. Trying to do it with a child in tow can be even tougher. While you may be “Holding out for a Hero” as Bonnie Tyler once said, there are all those other less valiant fellas to get through first.

The Slice Guide to Getting Knocked Up

So you’re taking the plunge and accepting the notion of swollen ankles, a swollen abdomen, and nine months of mood swings. Why are you doing this again? Oh, yeah, right. Bundles of joy. Until that package arrives, however, you’re going to want to keep a few things in mind...

Win Every Argument

Disclaimer: This article should be used for good instead of evil, especially if you’re one of those annoying people we get stuck talking to at parties who insist you’re always right. Some of these suggestions are mucky, so use the force responsibly...

Less Stress

You’ve had a doozy of a day at work: your boss was breathing down your neck about that client report; you and your “perfect” new boyfriend had your first spat; and to top it off, you just opened up your credit card bill to discover you not only reached your credit limit, but surpassed it...

The First Year with the Little Whippersnapper

So you survived 40 weeks of pregnancy, sailed through the birth au naturel, and are settling into perfect maternal bliss, right?! Even if that’s all true (and if it is, I’m really very happy for you, honestly!),...

Wow His Parents

You’ve been dating for a while now, he makes moon eyes at you and you finish each other’s sentences. One day he turns to you and says, “My mom wants to know if you’d like come over for dinner.” Cue scary music. Heart palpitations, sweaty palms – this is cause for nervousness. Why? Well, if it’s serious enough to meet the guy’s parents, then you’re probably pretty serious about the guy. And if you’re serious about the guy, you want the guy’s parents to like you. So how do you get through that first meeting without eventually having those parents ask your beau, “Whatever happened to that cute girlfriend of yours?”

In Line With the In-Laws

If you’re one of those people who regularly says, “But I get along fine with my in-laws” and means it, go away. Find other perfect people to talk to. For the rest of us, dealing with in-laws is about as comfortable as an hour-long Pap test...