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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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A day in the life of marginalizing “fringe groups” in Canada

March 2, 2010




Most days, I’m proud to be Canadian. Whether I’m talking about our health care system, our maternity and parental leave programs, feminist leaders, or other topics close to my heart, my country usually makes me proud (even if it isn’t perfect). Today, however, my heart sunk. I was hit with bad news and then slapped [...]

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Inspiring Change

January 21, 2009




I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what my goal is with this blog. When I started the blog back in May and wrote my About This Blog page this is what I said: I’m working on my proverbial PhD in Parenting. As someone that has spent a lot of years in a classroom, I [...]

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Safe or unsafe?

November 29, 2008




I’m starting to get annoyed at Health Canada (HC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) assessments that certain things are safe or unsafe for our infants or for the public at large. Both HC and the FDA say that trace amounts of melamine in infant formula is safe. The FDA contends that Bisphenol A [...]

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Best anti-spanking resources

November 4, 2008




I know that I am often preaching the the choir here. Many of my readers have similar values and parenting approaches to me. However, we are all often in situations where we want to be able to share rational arguments in support of non-violent parenting to those that may not be aware of the consequences [...]

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Where’s your smile?

July 9, 2008




My little girl has been a happy baby from Day 1. Always content and always smiling. It has always made my day when I look at her little face and see her beaming back at me. I thought that was just common sense, but science confirmed it. Apparently, when a mother sees her baby smile (and only her baby, not [...]

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