PhD in Parenting

Healthier Olympic Sponsorship Videos

February 24, 2010

A few days ago, I wrote about how I despise the McDonald’s and Coke sponsorship of Olympic athletes. Today, I want to share a few better Olympic sponsorship videos with you.
American Ski Champ and Organic Farmer: Bode Miller

Hockey Players and Egg Farmers of Canada: Hayley Wickenheiser and Kim St.Pierre

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How to report unethical promotion of formula, bottles and other breastmilk substitutes

February 22, 2010

The continued marketing of formula, bottles, pacifiers, or complimentary foods for babies under six months of age is dangerous and unethical. Not only do they undermine the efforts of moms who want to breastfeed, but they also create risks to the health of mothers and babies, and have a detrimental impact on the environment.
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Are these your kids’ heroes? Olympians, sponsorship, McDonald’s and more

February 20, 2010

Earlier this week, Canada welcomed a new hero into its hearts. Not only the winner of our first gold medal during these Olympics, but the winner of the first Olympic gold ever won by a Canadian on Canadian soil, and a genuine good human being too. Alexandre Bilodeau is just the type of person I [...]

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Mom 2.0: A Defining Moment

February 19, 2010

When I saw people currently attending the Mom 2.0 Summit tweeting about this video, I had to watch, and then I had to share.

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Why I check my stats and why you should too

February 17, 2010

I’m going to share a little known fact with you. I didn’t start blogging just for myself or for the community. I started blogging for professional reasons. Not because I ever wanted to or expected to make a ton of money writing this blog. Rather, I did it because my day job involves working with [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Sunset Walk in Madagascar

February 17, 2010

Found this beautiful babywearing picture on flickr (courtesy of bass_nroll’s flickr stream).

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Should we parent boys and girls differently?

February 16, 2010

Cathy from Nurture Store asked me whether we should parent boys and girls differently. In a perfect world, I think there would be very few differences in terms of how we should parent boys and girls. As I wrote in my post on the Bias Against Boys:
Are boys are girls really that different?
There are two [...]

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My little Valentine

February 14, 2010

For single people, Valentine’s Day is often society’s cruel way of shoving their singleness in their face. For couples, it is filled with expectations and pressure to spend money to prove how romantic you are. For those reasons, I’ve never been a big fan. But as a parent, it brings on new meaning. The spirit [...]

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Olympic Time: Go Canada!

February 13, 2010

I loved the poem “We Are More” from the opening ceremonies last night. You can watch it on YouTube or check out the Wordle of it.

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I left my kids for five days and it was okay

February 10, 2010

Last Thursday morning, I kissed Emma goodbye, dropped Julian off at school with a big hug and kiss and continued on to the airport. I hopped on a plane and headed off to Los Angeles, via Chicago for a conference for work. I met up with friends, learned new things, saw a bit of Los [...]