The Little Paper

WE ARE URBAN PARENTS. City people. Our children are city kids. And, for many of us, our notions of neighbourhood and community changed forever with the birth of our first child. We became pedestrians, stroller pushers, the constant denizens of our local community centres, swimming pools and skating rinks. We met our neighbours in the playground, became involved in fundraisers in support of our communities, took on duty days at the nursery co-op or simply dropped a fin on raffle tickets at the local school fair.

Becoming parents hasn’t changed our love of this city – its arts, music, museums, architecture, restaurants, markets and green spaces and last month’s packed-to-capacity Family Jam at The Gladstone reminded me of this and of the need for us to share what we, as adults, love about Toronto with our children – whether it is the Sunday Bluegrass Brunch at the Dakota, a visit to the pasta man at The St. Lawrence Market, the delights of Casa Acoreana in Kensington or a trek through the wilds of the Don Valley.

The Little Paper tries hard to celebrate and to facilitate parenting in Toronto. We are urbanites and mothers ourselves: the mom next door and the woman in line behind you at the library and we, like you, are better citizens of our city because of the ways in which becoming parents has deepened our intimacy with our own little pockets of community within it.

In the spirit of celebrating our city, The Little Paper is proud to be the media sponsor for The Bunch Family Salon at The Arts & Letters Club this month. Starting in May, we’ll be partnering with Evergreen Brick Works and GreenMom and rooting when the four-year-olds of the Little Paper Lightning take the field on Monday nights. In July, we’ve hooked up with the Fringe Festival to support their KidsVenue productions and we are looking forward to growing our relationships with other organizations that make it so wonderful to be a parent in this city.

Happy spring – go on... get out in it! – Vicki