December 2010

What interested you and riled you up in 2010

December 30, 2010




I recently started using a new analytics program called PostRank. Unlike regular stats programs that tell you how many people viewed your post, it tells you how engaged people were with your post. Did they share it on facebook or twitter or somewhere else? Did they leave a comment? Did they link back to it [...]

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Who will gain the most weight?

December 28, 2010




Imagine three groups of people. They make up a variety of different socioeconomic groups, genetic backgrounds, and activity levels. As part of a study, their diets are the same except for one thing — the type of grains they eat. Instead of eating what they like or what they think they should eat, each of [...]

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Joy of the Season

December 28, 2010




Wishing you and your family all the best this holiday season. Hope you find many reasons to hug and laugh.

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I keep pouring

December 23, 2010




Have you ever poured your child a glass of milk, put the milk away, and sat down only to hear “Mama, can I have some more milk?” So you take the empty glass, fill it up, put the milk away, sit down again, and then hear “Mama, I’m still thirsty.” In his book, Playful Parenting, [...]

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Nature, Nurture and More: Books that Influenced Me

December 20, 2010




In my last post, I outlined my perspective on the nature versus nurture discussion. I talked about the intersection between genes, environment and individual choice in determining who a person is.  In that post, I promised to share the books that have influenced my thinking on this topic. In this post, I’m going to share [...]

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Think of the Elves

December 20, 2010




We’ve been listening to Putumayo’s Christmas Around the World and Barenaked Ladies Barenaked for the Holidays CDs in our car lately. The kids have their favourite songs (and Julian went off to school this morning singing “Happy Birthday dear Jesus” even though he says he knows the Lord Jesus is just make believe), but my [...]

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Ready for Christmas?

December 18, 2010




To those readers celebrating Christmas or just anticipating time off from work and school to be together with their family, I thought I would throw together a few posts that you may find helpful while I continue working on my next in-depth post. Establishing Holiday Traditions Everyone wants the holidays to be a special time [...]

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Nature? Nurture? Neither? More?

December 15, 2010




After writing my last post, I had a lot of interesting side discussions about the old nature versus nurture debate. Some of those discussions happened in the comments on my last post. Some of them happened on twitter. Some of them happened in person. While I think I have made it fairly clear that I [...]

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The Bible of Parent Blame: “Your Kids Are Your Own Fault” by Larry Winget

December 10, 2010




Last year Meagan Francis from The Happiest Mom received a press release about a horrible book and called it out on twitter. I had just started writing on a blog called I Blame The Mother and it seemed like a great venue to write about this book. So I wrote a post called Like beating [...]

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Christmas Gifts for Teachers? What to Think of When Buying a Gift

December 8, 2010




It is almost time for Christmas break at most schools in North America. As children get ready to run out into the snow and enjoy a few weeks off from school, many parents and children may be looking to give a gift to their teachers to show their appreciation. In some schools it seems this [...]

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