Ottawa Parents' Place

Kathy Buckworth is an experienced writer and public speaker, with numerous publishing credits in both national and local magazines and newspapers. She is the author of The Secret Life of SuperMom (Sourcebooks, 2005), and SuperMom: A Celebration of All You Do (Sourcebooks, 2006). Her third book, Journey to the Darkside: SuperMom Goes Home will be published by Key Porter in July, 2007.

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Like a fitness trainer, a kitchen coach can help you and your family make a healthy change to your life not only physically through better eating habits but mentally by relieving stress in the kitchen. This is an in home service that provides meal assessment, pantry re-organization, cooking instruction and on-going support. We’ll spend time with you organizing, planning and teaching you in a more organized and efficient kitchen - yours.

Newly launched Youth Coach Canada helps kids, teens, and young adults meet with success by making professional life coaching services available to youth aged 11-21. YCC offers private and group coaching, workshops, and in-school programs. YCC is dedicated to empowering today's youth—teaching them powerful skills to succeed in school and into the future—and at a fraction of usual professional rates.

Hiring a nanny? We offer a special consulting service that takes the mystery out of figuring out how much to pay your nanny, taxes involved, how room and board works, and other associated costs. Have a nanny? We take the headache out of preparing your nanny’s T4 and will keep you up-to-date on tax changes throughout the year to maximize tax savings.

We are pleased to offer counselling services for parents in the areas of infant, toddler and preschooler sleep disturbances including: bedtime problems, night wakings, early morning wakings, daytime sleep difficulties, nightmares, sleep terrors and sleepwalking. Services may be covered by Extended Health Care Benefit Plans.