Category: ‘Children’
Every year, hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent in elementary, middle, and high schools, for specialists to try to teach children to be better humans. School is more than just learning your multiplication tables and parts of speech (and sometimes, unfortunately, it is much less than either of those). It’s a place where [...]
Caillou. Caillou. Ugh. Just saying his name makes me want to spit. Caillou is pretty much my number one kiddie-related entertainment nemesis and not just because he’s a whiny little turd whose voice makes me want to stab myself in the ears. OK, that’s not true. It is his whiny little voice that makes detest [...]
That’s basically the case that Anytime Fitness is making with their new “Coalition of Angry Kids” campaign.They’re suggesting that all the blame for childhood obesity be laid at parental feet.The point of the campaign of course is to shock.The argument…
Okay, so I think the real problem here is that Yours Truly has been watching daytime television. This is a Bad Plan. Because you know what? I think I’m beginning to understand something. And that something is that most of the people in ‘popular culture’, if daytime television is to be believed, are, if you’ll [...]
Some artists spend their careers trying to recapture the sense of wonder and imagination they had as children. I was reminded of that this summer while I sketeched and watched my friends kids create artwork from flotsam and jetsam on the beach. The…
Things I know for sure: 1. If you have unprotected sex, you will get pregnant. All four times. 2. If you ask your husband to take the trash cans to the curb, he will do it, but not on your schedule — on his. And that’s usually after the trash men have already passed your [...]
when you meet my kids, you will note – without fail – that they resemble their father. if you are like most people, you will offer a slightly sympathetic laugh, a nod that acknowledges the long months i spent carrying them only to have them pop out entirely HIS. i will nod back, smiling, helpless [...]
My oldest daughter, Laurelle was in preschool when I was told I was expecting again. My husband and I had been trying for years to conceive after the birth of our daughter and finally we were referred to the infertility clinic who diagnosed us with secondary infertility meaning they didn’t understand why we weren’t getting pregnant and [...]
Christine, a blog reader and bariatric nurse from Alberta, sent me an email last week tipping me off to Alberta’s The Amazing Little Cookbook.The book, published by the “Healthy U” arm of Alberta’s Ministry of Health, is a cookbook meant for children t…
Last week Colby Vorland tweeted a link to a new study that looked at the impact of a lifestyle modification program geared at overweight fathers and their children.The study set out to randomly investigate something called the Healthy Dads, Healthy Kid…
When I practiced more traditional family medicine and saw my pregnant patients many rationalized rapid and extreme weight gains as a rite of pregnancy and not a worry because after all, they were “eating for two”.It’s probably time to rethink those att…
This year was a challenging year for our kids at school. More independence, less coddling by teachers, homework and school yard dynamics. Oy! Some of it we anticipated as part of attending a full day in the primary grades. There were issues with inclusion, speaking up, hurt feelings and even and a bullying incidence. [...]
Think back to the this past winter Olympics…a time when Canada experienced a swell of patriotism. Wasn’t it great? I love Canada. It is not perfect…but the more I travel and read, I appreciate this beautiful country. My brother and sister-in-law live in the United States. Our nieces and nephew have dual citizenship…but I [...]
My kids like to help in the kitchen. Tomorrow they are going to “cook” their traditional Father’s Day breakfast. (Co-incidentally, it happens to be the exact same menu as Mother’s Day breakfast.) We awake to lots of clanging and banging around in the kitchen mixed with loud “Shhhhh’s”. When we come downstairs, coffee is made [...]
The first official day of summer is days away. In the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice officially begins on June 21st at 7:28 am EDT. As the weather warms and we shed our clothes, many of us are starting to think about sunscreen. Before you reach for your favourite brand, the Environmental Working [...]
Warning: The following post will likely make you itchy. “Mommy, my head itches.” Not the words you want to hear just before bath time on a Monday night. I turned to look at my daughter and she had both hands on her head scratching furiously. Oh…please…please…not THAT. Luckily, my neighbour is a [...]
Every year, hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent in elementary, middle, and high schools, for specialists to try to teach children to be better humans. School is more than just learning your multiplication tables and parts of speech (and sometimes, unfortunately, it is much less than either of those). It’s a place where [...]
Caillou. Caillou. Ugh. Just saying his name makes me want to spit. Caillou is pretty much my number one kiddie-related entertainment nemesis and not just because he’s a whiny little turd whose voice makes me want to stab myself in the ears. OK, that’s not true. It is his whiny little voice that makes detest [...]
That’s basically the case that Anytime Fitness is making with their new “Coalition of Angry Kids” campaign.They’re suggesting that all the blame for childhood obesity be laid at parental feet.The point of the campaign of course is to shock.The argument…
Okay, so I think the real problem here is that Yours Truly has been watching daytime television. This is a Bad Plan. Because you know what? I think I’m beginning to understand something. And that something is that most of the people in ‘popular culture’, if daytime television is to be believed, are, if you’ll [...]
Some artists spend their careers trying to recapture the sense of wonder and imagination they had as children. I was reminded of that this summer while I sketeched and watched my friends kids create artwork from flotsam and jetsam on the beach. The…
Things I know for sure: 1. If you have unprotected sex, you will get pregnant. All four times. 2. If you ask your husband to take the trash cans to the curb, he will do it, but not on your schedule — on his. And that’s usually after the trash men have already passed your [...]
when you meet my kids, you will note – without fail – that they resemble their father. if you are like most people, you will offer a slightly sympathetic laugh, a nod that acknowledges the long months i spent carrying them only to have them pop out entirely HIS. i will nod back, smiling, helpless [...]
My oldest daughter, Laurelle was in preschool when I was told I was expecting again. My husband and I had been trying for years to conceive after the birth of our daughter and finally we were referred to the infertility clinic who diagnosed us with secondary infertility meaning they didn’t understand why we weren’t getting pregnant and [...]
Christine, a blog reader and bariatric nurse from Alberta, sent me an email last week tipping me off to Alberta’s The Amazing Little Cookbook.The book, published by the “Healthy U” arm of Alberta’s Ministry of Health, is a cookbook meant for children t…
Last week Colby Vorland tweeted a link to a new study that looked at the impact of a lifestyle modification program geared at overweight fathers and their children.The study set out to randomly investigate something called the Healthy Dads, Healthy Kid…
When I practiced more traditional family medicine and saw my pregnant patients many rationalized rapid and extreme weight gains as a rite of pregnancy and not a worry because after all, they were “eating for two”.It’s probably time to rethink those att…
This year was a challenging year for our kids at school. More independence, less coddling by teachers, homework and school yard dynamics. Oy! Some of it we anticipated as part of attending a full day in the primary grades. There were issues with inclusion, speaking up, hurt feelings and even and a bullying incidence. [...]
Think back to the this past winter Olympics…a time when Canada experienced a swell of patriotism. Wasn’t it great? I love Canada. It is not perfect…but the more I travel and read, I appreciate this beautiful country. My brother and sister-in-law live in the United States. Our nieces and nephew have dual citizenship…but I [...]
My kids like to help in the kitchen. Tomorrow they are going to “cook” their traditional Father’s Day breakfast. (Co-incidentally, it happens to be the exact same menu as Mother’s Day breakfast.) We awake to lots of clanging and banging around in the kitchen mixed with loud “Shhhhh’s”. When we come downstairs, coffee is made [...]
The first official day of summer is days away. In the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice officially begins on June 21st at 7:28 am EDT. As the weather warms and we shed our clothes, many of us are starting to think about sunscreen. Before you reach for your favourite brand, the Environmental Working [...]
Warning: The following post will likely make you itchy. “Mommy, my head itches.” Not the words you want to hear just before bath time on a Monday night. I turned to look at my daughter and she had both hands on her head scratching furiously. Oh…please…please…not THAT. Luckily, my neighbour is a [...]