Harry Tournemille

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Father, husband, writer, maniac. Well, the last one depends on who you ask. I'm an at-home father and writer here to serve up mild doses of entertainment and nerdery for your viewing pleasure. My interests? Movies, literature, outdoors, fitness, television, BBQing, beer (a category unto its own), food...wait...this sounds like I'm looking for a date... Best to stop here.

The Niagara Region: Top 5 Things to Do With Kids

Education, Playtime Tags: butterfly conservatory, niagara, park

You’ve made a wrong turn somewhere — or so it seems. Vancouver is impossibly far away; the mountains, the ocean, the transcendent Alibi Room or local microbrewery. Somehow you’re in Southern Ontario, the Niagara Region and you’re not quite sure what to do with yourself, or the pack of kids anxiously biting at your elbows with boredom. Don’t be frightened….

What Defines Home? Creating Comfort Wherever You Are.

Development, Health and Development, Organization and Finance, Safety Tags: comfort, creating home, Homepage, traditions

Knee-deep in moving one’s family to a new location, and life gets weighed down with a host of stresses. Already noted is how to make the transition of moving easier for your kids, but what about once you get there? What defines home for a person in a new place?

Seattle With Kids — Easy, Once you Get There

Travel

Seattle: one of the great West Coast cities with its musical history, open markets, outstanding seafood. Oh, and one cannot forget the coffee. That would be criminal. Hitting up Seattle with kids is a cinch. In fact, The Emerald City is probably one of the most kid-friendly I’ve been to.

Preschool – Learning Tool or A Way to Maintain Sanity?

Education, Health and Development

‘Round August, the lineups begin. Phone calls, online research, word-of-mouth conversation at the playgrounds and water parks (much to my dismay). Preschool – the next step to perfecting your child’s success in the world. Or maybe it’s just a way to maintain a parent’s sanity.

Moving? How to Make the Transition Easy for Children

Organization and Finance, Travel

Moving to a new home with children requires an almost unfathomable amount of effort. Time, work, the anxious uncertainty that comes with drastic transition. Children, being as intuitive as they are, pick up on these stresses, and tend to emulate them. I say this having moved 13 times in the same town growing up.Â But there are ways to make the…

Daddy-Meal Tips for Beginners

Feeding, Health and Development, Kid's Kitchen

It happens often these days; DadÂ preparing food as the at-home father while Mom turns the corporate world on its ear. For some this can be daunting. Thankfully, some straightforward Daddy-Meal Tips for Beginners exist. Recalling my own father’s shepherd’s pie — which seemed to incorporate BBQ potato chips on more than one occasion — or the frightening tomato-soup-instead-of-pasta-sauce idea I’ve…

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