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
Filed Under: Parenting Politics
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.
Filed Under: Health & Wellness, Parenting Politics
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 [...]
Dads: Damned If They Do And Damned If They Don’t
Filed Under: Parenting Politics
I just read this great article about dads by Vicki Larson on The Huffington Post and I had to share it here. It really made me think about the double standard we place on the men in our lives. We modern women want our children’s fathers to do it all; be there for us at every [...]
Save the Babies: Keep Their Sex a Secret
Filed Under: Parenting Politics
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 [...]
Mommy Wars | WAHM’s: The Third Line Drawn In The Sand
Filed Under: Parenting Politics
Here is my knee jerk reaction to the whole working mom vs. stay at home mom heap of garbage debate that seems to have taken on a life of its own the last few days in the blogosphere: I think we’re a little jealous of each other. Here are some facts as I see them. [...]
Breastmilk Banking | Breastmilk for Violet
Filed Under: Parenting Politics
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 [...]
Christmas Kitsch Crap: The Rudolph Car!
Filed Under: Holidays, Parenting Politics
I Love Stephen Quinn. For an Alberta girl out in BC, listening to him on the afternoon show on CBC radio is like a little slice of home; he is witty, sarcastic and best of all, not a left wing nut bar. He also writes for the Globe and Mail, and this morning’s article had [...]
When is too much Santa too much?
Filed Under: Holidays, Parenting Politics
So I have a small parenting dilemma that I don’t quite know how to handle. My son got to ‘meet’ and get a gift from Santa at his preschool Christmas party yesterday (gift provided by the parents). On Saturday both children will get a chance to meet and get a gift from Santa at the [...]
Fetus Has A Facebook Page
Filed Under: Parenting Politics
Technology has come a long way baby! It used to be that we had to wait until the baby was born to be inundated with information about it, but now even a fetus can have a Facebook page! I have friends that have started blogs as a way to keep family members and friends posted [...]
