Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
I once gave an interview to a writerly friend about sex during pregnancy. I totally forgot about it until the wife of my husband’s work colleague came up to me and told me that she knew all about my sex life, she had read about it while at the doctor’s office. Yowza. But I think [...]
Because is there really such a thing as a ‘bad’ school portrait? OK, there is such a thing as a ‘bad’ school portrait and that fact grows exponentially by the child’s age but regardless of the actual results of this annual rite of student passage, parents in general will buy the image to mark that [...]
How many times have you been trolling the racks at Baby Gap and said under your breath “Screw all these cute little pink dresses, I wish Lady Gaga would design baby clothing. She’d create the kind of baby clothing my daughter needs. Gaga would make baby clothing that screams ‘Outta my way establishment, I WAS [...]
OK, so I know this isn’t really Werner Herzog reading Madeline, the children’s classic from my own childhood, but I think Herzog would readily agree to narrating the tale of an young girls living at a Parisian boarding school because of the series’ classic closing line: ‘That’s all there is; there isn’t any more.’ That [...]
Imagine, if you will, discussing matters of philosophy, whether God loves an object because it is holy or whether the object is holy because God loves it. And then, imagine your cat videobombing you. “What’s this, Dad? Dad, what’s this? What’s in there? Huh? Dad? Mrow? The question really is, is the cat holy? Or [...]
Do you live in the GTA? Looking for some mom-centric entertainment this week that also involves giving back to a great cause? Check out this guest post from Erin Keaney, Resident Director of Bum Wiping and Snack Packing on Mother’s Day + PUSH…ONE MOTHER OF A SHOW I don’t have a lot time for things [...]
No I’m not talking about that tiger baby because I’m sure all it would say was ‘mew’ and my heart would melt. The tiger baby I’m talking about is the offspring of the Tiger Mom, aka Amy Chua who wrote the article that started the whole Tiger Mom dilemma. The real baby of that Tiger Mom isn’t a [...]
Although I had always thought of myself as a bit of a book purist, I woke up one morning last December quite positive that I wanted an e-reader. My husband, thrilled at the prospect of not having to think up a birthday present for me on his own, obliged, and a few weeks later I [...]
A couple of months ago, I wrote this about the stuff that we love and why we love it: Here are some things that Jasper and Emilia love: crayons, art paper, paints, marshmallows, bubble wrap, trains, books, the iPhone, the iPad, video cameras, regular cameras, Toady, me, Kyle, the cats, skateboards, anything Disney, Scotch tape, [...]
This series of movie posters for imagined cinematic fairy tale reboots will make you laugh, but you’ll probably have to take a minute to think about whether or not they’re real, because, seriously. Like Humpty Dumpty needs Wes Craven to get a scary edge. That story’s about a guy falling to his death and an [...]
(Reposting! So that you keep this front of mind as you’re planning your March Break activities!) You all know about my nephew, Tanner, right? If you don’t, you can catch up on his story here, but as most of you know probably know, he has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, which is a terminal condition for which [...]
Toronto October 13 - 15