January 2010

Canadian women are livid…and rightfully so

January 29, 2010




Remember what your parents told you? Remember what your teachers told you? No one can touch you down there without your consent. Turns out, someone forgot to tell our country’s medical professionals. Yesterday, I was sitting in a middle-aged male client’s cubicle discussing a project we are working on, when tweets from @sassymonkey started popping [...]

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Covering up is a feminist issue

January 27, 2010




Note: Since writing this post, some of the images have been made unavailable. However, I also created a video version of the Covering Up is a Feminist Issue message, which I would encourage you to check out and share. Yesterday I read and commented on a post where a woman, mother, and published author was [...]

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Information, advertising, spam: Medela crosses the line

January 25, 2010




There has been a lot of talk on twitter and on blogs in the past while about pump manufacturer Medela’s decision to stop complying with the WHO Code and its Medela Mom Mavens program where it solicits moms to help it spread the message about breastfeeding and about its products. A number of people have [...]

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Ottawa school bans balls at recess

January 22, 2010




This week an Ottawa school, D. Roy Kennedy Public School, has been in the news and featured on the Free Range Kids blog because a group of students started a petition to reverse a ban on playing with balls at recess in the winter. Students are allowed to run around and play, but they cannot [...]

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Intersecting Needs: Maslow, interdependence, parenting, caregiving, relationships

January 20, 2010




We all have needs. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs provides an excellent framework to describe the relative importance of different needs. I like Meagan Francis (The Happiest Mom)’s Mother’s Hierarchy of Needs and I enjoyed putting together my Child’s Hierarchy of Needs. The problem though, with each of them, is that they focus on one person’s [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Winter Campfire

January 20, 2010




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The Big Fight

January 15, 2010




Yesterday on the way home in the car my kids had a fight. A fight that resulted in both of them being in tears. A fight that involved me validating their feelings, but also telling them how damn lucky they are that they can get upset over such things. By way of background to the [...]

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Child’s Hierarchy of Needs

January 14, 2010




Parents often find it overwhelming trying to meet their children’s needs. With limited time, limited resources, and limited patience meeting all of their needs can seem like an impossible task. If we can’t do it all, where should we begin? Where should we focus? What is most important? Last year, Meagan Francis from The Happiest [...]

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A guest post and another popularity contest

January 13, 2010




Image credit: brianna.lehman on flickr Guest post: Can Mama Bear Let Go? Arwyn at Raising my Boychick has been hosting an ongoing Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer (WFPP) with guest posts on a variety of fascinating topics and situations faced by a variety of different mothers. This week it is my turn and I wrote about my [...]

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Lies, lies and more lies: 3 year government crackdown can’t keep formula companies from misleading consumers

January 12, 2010




Canada has signed the WHO International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes. The Canadian government encourages the infant formula industry to comply with the Code, which means not marketing or promoting infant formula in any way. I explained this and more in my post that concluded Nestle and other infant formula manufacturers do aggressively promote [...]

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