Wow, oh wow. I’ve heard about this video making the rounds of Facebook over the last few weeks, but didn’t get around to actually watching it until now. Basically an American dad posts a YouTube video addressing his daughter’s rant about her parents on Facebook. He was visibly upset especially after he just spent hours [...]
To Spank or not To Spank that is #TheSpankDebate

Spanking is making the headlines once again in Canada. The last time the issue came up in the news, the Supreme Court of Canada passed a law in 2004 which gave teachers, parents and caregivers the right to spank children between the ages of 2 -12 with reasonable force. Last Monday the Canadian Medical Association [...]
How I got over my fear of the foreskin and learned to live without circumcision.

It seems that the men of my generation are mostly circumcised. Don’t ask how I know. Let’s just call it anecdotal evidence. By the time I had children it appeared that the tide had turned and little boys are no longer routinely circumcised. Part of it has to do with the fact that provincial health care stopped [...]
Save the Babies: Keep Their Sex a Secret

A Proposed Ban on Revealing the Sex of a Fetus: There’s an article in yesterday’s Globe and Mail suggesting that the medical community should not reveal the sex of a fetus until after 30 weeks when abortion is (almost) impossible to obtain. The reasoning is that there is an unreleased study suggesting that female [...]
Breastmilk Banking | Breastmilk for Violet

I cried when I read this. When I was pregnant, a million different morbid scenarios of me dying, my husband dying, everyone dying occupied my waking hours and tormented my dreams. For Renee Noble it was a stark, dark horrifying reality. She was pregnant with Violet when she found out she had cancer. She lived [...]





