February 2011

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February 27, 2011




Is Winter over yet? I’m ready for Spring and the warmth and inspiration that it brings. More than anything, I’m looking forward to having more time for my family, for my friends, and even for this blog. My work keeps me pretty “heads down” at this time of year, but I can see the light [...]

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Covering Up is a Feminist Issue (Video)

February 20, 2011




Background Last year, I wrote a post called Covering Up is a Feminist Issue after seeing yet another comment from a self-proclaimed non-judgmental woman asking why women can’t just cover up when they are breastfeeding. The presumption that her comfort level should dictate how other people dress or act irked me into action. The post [...]

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Outsourcing discipline?

February 15, 2011




If you and your kids are a fan of Robert Munsch stories, you’ve probably read Mortimer. Mortimer is a young boy who doesn’t want to go to sleep. He starts singing at the top of his lungs as soon as his mother says goodnight and closes the door. This is followed by his father, his [...]

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Why always the mother?

February 12, 2011




Researchers evidently think mothers are significantly more important than fathers. Perhaps I should be flattered, but I’m not. I’m annoyed at the amount of blame that gets explicitly and implicitly put on mothers and I’m annoyed at the way fathers are dismissed as insignificant influences on their children’s lives. In a post last week, I [...]

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“Because breastfeeding isn’t always easy, we’re here to help” — La Leche League Canada

February 7, 2011




Do you remember back in the summer when I donated $400 towards a La Leche League Canada campaign starring Canadian actor Sitara Hewitt from Little Mosque on the Prairie? Well that PSA has been released. For more information on the video and to find out how you can help La Leche League Canada spread the [...]

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UNICEF to Health Canada: Formula isn’t second best

February 7, 2011




Health Canada is currently in the process of updating its recommendations for infant feeding. As part of that process, Health Canada has solicited comments from stakeholders and the general public on its draft statement on Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants – Recommendations from Birth to Six Months through an online consultation. The update to their [...]

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Garden Advice: Shade Vegetables

February 5, 2011




This summer I’m planning to plant our first vegetable garden at this house. It is the first year in a long time when I won’t be spending a significant part of the planting or growing season out of the country and where I don’t have an infant to care for. I’m hoping to get the [...]

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Canadian women: We’re fat, our kids are fat, and we’re letting other people raise our children

February 4, 2011




Today’s news stories come with a heavy dose of woman and mother-blame. Canadian women getting fatter, and fast…: In the Ottawa Citizen, Sharon Kirkey reported that Canadian women are becoming overweight faster than almost any other women in the high-income world. At least this article ended with a couple of suggestions on tackling structural issues [...]

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Share The Important Things

February 1, 2011




We’ve been practicing our own brand of equally shared parenting since before Amy and Marc Vachon started their Equally Shared Parenting blog and wrote their Equally Shared Parenting book. While Amy and Marc’s approach emphasizes the importance of sharing every task, from earning money, to doing the laundry, to feeding the baby, our approach has [...]

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