My daughter is fast approaching high school so of course my attention was piqued by the recent release of the School Safety Report.
The picture painted of Toronto high schools is enough to consider home schooling. Rape, guns, belligerence and teacher apathy seem to be the norm in some schools. So as a parent, what do you do?
When I was in high school everything wasn't Cleaveresque. We
We’re now on day two of the dreaded first week back to school and everyone is still sane (of course, sane is a relative term). My daughter may be bleary-eyed and cranky but she’s at school.
I’m lucky compared to the poor mother in Mexico who went upstairs to get her son up for the first day back and found him watching television with his hand firmly glued to
Need help finding books for your little readers this holiday season? Here are some books that I loved to read to my daughter and some that have been recommended by others.
Books for kids under three that are hard to destroy but still loads of fun:
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. Harper Collins Canada: 1991
Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Philomel Books: 2002
Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle. Philomel Books
The Mommy Wars are on again. A new British study by the Institute for Social and Economic Research says that no matter how many hours they work, women working outside the home are more satisfied than their stay-at-home counterparts.
In fact, according to the study, the happiness of stay-at-home moms does not improve until their kids are off at school full-time. This suggests
Tis the season to give. Parents everywhere are frantically trying to buy everything on the long list their kids dictate- and edit- at the last minute.
It’s hard to stop ourselves from giving our kids everything on their lists. But all that giving can infect our families with a horrible case of affluenza. Affluenza is that prickly, uncomfortable,
A new study says that more than one million Canadian students have tutors.
The study, done by The Canadian Council on Learning, reports that parents who hire tutors for their children do so because they are financially capable, disappointed in the school system and want their kids to have an edge later on in life.
This adds to the growing trend of “
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