Christmas Kitsch Crap: The Rudolph Car!

Reindeer car

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?

Santa with Gift Bags

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

fetus-facebook

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 [...]

A Gender Storm? Or What in the heck is the world coming to!

Boy Girl

Just read an opinion piece in the Calgary Heraldabout a Toronto couple who is not sharing the gender of their 4 month old baby in the hopes of raising ‘it’  without societal expectations of gender. Warning: This is where I would normally go off on a totally judgement, absolutely politically incorrect rant….If I could find [...]

What to do about those bratty neighbour kids

David-Eddie-Globe-and-Mail

As a dad, I often struggle with how to properly discipline my son. I do my best to be loving and modern dad, fighting off the urge to kick it old school like my dad did in regards to spanking, threatening and frightening my children into submission. It’s even more difficult to find the proper [...]

Botox Injection For 8 Year Old

Lately I have been bothered by little comments I hear regarding little girls. For example, “she’s so pretty she could be a model when she gets older” or “my daughter loved flying so much in the airplane she is a future flight attendant in the making”. How about a pilot in the making? I find [...]

Disciplining Moms

Is it acceptable to discipline another mother who “disciplines” your child? This was my status update on Facebook after a particularly shocking scenario I encountered. I got a lot of feedback from moms. Most of it was definitely pro laying the smackdown on the mom. A few moms wanted to know the exact scenario and [...]

Be Kind to Moms!

Another Mother’s Day has come and gone! I had a nice day myself – we took the kids to see Thomas at Heritage Park in the morning, then we ditched them with Grandma and Grandpa and went golfing with my husband in the afternoon. It was the perfect mix of time with the kids and [...]