Category Archives: Parenting
Eventblog: Little Green “Open” House
A short blurb today to welcome Little Green House to our family of sponsors and donors. Little Green house is a trilingual daycare center based in Gland and will be opening up a second venue in the Morges area in September. To learn more, watch this space for a special entrepreneurblog or head out to [...]
Know-it-all Guidebook to Geneva, Vaud and Neighboring France
Over a decade ago, before Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo!Groups and social networking, before iPhones and Androids and even before Palm Pilots and other handheld devices, Lisa Cirieco-Ohlman was an expatriate mother living in the Geneva area. And she recognised that the expatriate community was growing and that the community, and parents in particular, needed access to [...]
SwissBlog: Migros Twistymania
If you have a child between the ages of 3-12, you’ve probably spent a lot of extra money the last few weeks picking up spinning tops, or toupies at Migros. This quarter’s promotion is Twistymania and the kids are indeed manic for these multi-coloured tops. If your child is still on the hunt for a [...]
Fitblog: Family-Friendly Exercise
The days are getting warmer, so it’s time to put away our winter coats and sweaters/jumpers and pull out our Spring and Summer gear. It’s also time to get back outdoors (if you’ve been inside!) to take advantage of all the area has available. As parents, there’s no longer ample time to keep up with [...]
Healthblog: Beware of the marching caterpillars
I knew nothing about these creatures before moving to Switzerland. The first I learnt about them was when a friend developed a skin rash because of them. Marching caterpillars are usually somewhere between 3 and 4 centimetres long and they’re covered with thousands and thousands of pointed hairs. There are two types: pine and oak. [...]