THE TREAT: The Only Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe You’ll Ever Need 🍪 🍪 🍪

We don’t know about you, but we say that crisp autumn days call for baked goods. When your energy levels are low, good ol’ store-bought slice-and-bake cookie dough will do the trick (and your kids won’t know the difference) but if you’re looking for a from-scratch option, our Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies (CCCCs, for those in the know) is the stuff of bake sale and cookie-exchange legend. And the recipe only calls for a handful of ingredients you probably already have on hand:

• Butter

• Brown sugar

• Granulated sugar

• Egg

• Vanilla

• All-purpose flour

• Baking soda

• Salt

• Chocolate chips

Hit the button below for the full recipe. Chocolate chip not your fave? How about Everything Cookies, Never-Fail Sugar Cookies or Deep-Dish Peanut Butter Cookies instead?

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Egg-Citing Ideas To Get Kids Cooking

Eggs make a great starting point for kids to participate in the kitchen! They can be cracked, whisked, separated, boiled, fried and incorporated into many recipes. The possibilities are endless!

THE ROUNDUP: 5 Books to Build Compassion in the Lunchroom (and Beyond!) 🥟 📚 🍱 

Eating and sharing food should be joyful, but for children whose food doesn’t reflect that of the dominant culture, recesses and lunchtimes at school can be rife with stress and anxiety. But, we can help to raise compassionate kids by reminding them that all cultures should be honoured, and that what’s in our lunchboxes may be unfamiliar but should be celebrated. The five books on the list below positive representations of different cultures and diverse main characters, to help kids understand that our cultural uniqueness makes us special.

📖 Ramen For Everyone, by Patricia Tanumihardja

📖 Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story, by Kevin Noble Maillard

📖 Amy Wu And The Perfect Bao, by Kat Zhang

📖 Bilal Cooks Daal, by Aisha Saeed

📖 Everyone Loves Lunchtime But Zia, by Jenny Liao

For more about each title and where to buy them, tap the button below.

THE WEEKEND FUN: Halloween Movies to Watch Together as a Family 🎃 🎬 🍿

Spooky season is upon us with Halloween just two weeks away (how many times have your kids changed their minds on costumes so far?). If you’re gearing up for a weekend of Halloween fun, we’ve got the perfect picks for a festive movie night. Keep scrolling for three vintage and current flicks for the whole fam, and click through for seven (!) more on parentscanada.com.

🍿 It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
An oldie, but a goodie! Linus waits for The Great Pumpkin all night in a pumpkin patch, while Charlie Brown goes trick or treating with the gang—only to end up with a bag full of rocks.

🍿 The Goonies (1985)
A group of misfit kids hope to save their homes by finding One Eyed Willie’s treasure. Searching in underground pirate caves, the friends must race the evil Fratelli family to find the gold first. Best line: “Heeyyy yoooou guuuys!!”

🍿 Coraline (2009)
While exploring her new home, a little girl finds a parallel universe behind a secret door. But what’s on the other side isn’t necessarily better.

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THE REEL DEAL:
Why Do They Wake Up So Early?! 🙃 💤 👨‍👨‍👧‍👧

Okay, the reel is just for fun, but seriously—whhhhyyyyy? Every parent has had this experience, and it’s about to get even earlier as we count down to the fall time change in a couple of weeks. How do you handle it when your kiddo appears at your bedside at an ungodly hour, ready to start the day? Weigh in by tapping your preferred answer below!

Last week’s poll results:

How do you handle it when another parent intervenes between you and your child?

🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Politely ask them to mind their own business.
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Thank them for their help and speak to your child later.
🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Let it go—your teachable moment is gone.