Book Reviews

Why The World Needs to Change and How To Do It

August 26, 2011




“Don’t let them tell you it can’t be done.” Those are a few of the words written by Jack Layton, New Democratic Party leader and Canada’s Leader of the Opposition, in his letter to Canadians. Jack Layton is sadly no longer with us, but we are still here. “My friends, love is better than anger. [...]

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Go The F**k To Sleep: Funny or Offensive?

June 18, 2011




Last weekend when we were shopping at Chapters, the book “Go The F**k To Sleep” by Adam Mansbach caught my eye. I hadn’t heard about it until that moment and I was curious what it was all about. I picked it up and leafed through it, giggling a bit at some of the bedtime scenarios [...]

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The Happiest Mom (New Book Release by Meagan Francis)

March 21, 2011




When Julian was little and I started spending time on attachment parenting forums, everyone was raving about Harvey Karp’s Happiest Baby on the Block. An anti-thesis to many of the baby trainers and baby schedulers, this book offered suggestions for creating a “fourth-trimester” like environment to help ease your baby’s transition into the world.  There [...]

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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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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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3 Children’s Book Recommendations

November 25, 2010




About a week ago, the New Internationalist Gifts and Publications catalog for 2010/2011 arrived with the latest issue of New Internationalist. I’ve received some of their cookbooks as gifts before and have often coveted the other things in the catalog. I have been looking for some good books to buy for our kids that will [...]

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Product Review: Einfach Alles (Language Flash Cards)

June 10, 2010




My friend Allie writes the blog No Time for Flash Cards, and in general I would agree. Although we don’t often turn to crafts (like Allie does), we prefer learning by reading books, spending time outdoors, and going to museums rather than by memorization and repetition.  So when Julian’s French teacher said that he needed [...]

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Book Review: LIFE with Mother

September 5, 2009




This is not a typical book for me to review, so I won’t follow my typical book review format. LIFE with Mother, by the editors of LIFE books, is a beautiful compilation of photographs of mothers and their children, accompanied by quotes about mothering. The almost 100 page collection includes: regular people and famous people [...]

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Pregnancy and Parenting Books

August 28, 2009




About a year ago, a reader asked me if I would be willing to share a list of my favourite parenting books. I said “sure” and that is when I started working on page called My Parenting Library. Last night I finally found the time to finish an initial version of it. My Parenting Library [...]

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Book Review: Slow Death by Rubber Duck (by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie)

June 23, 2009




With fear and interest I picked up a copy of this book on a lovely visit to Chapters in Toronto with my friends Sam from babyREADY and Lindsay from Kickypants. Overview The byline for the book Slow Death by Rubber Duck is “how the toxic chemistry of everyday life affects our health“. The book systematically [...]

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