Article content Each time my mom calls, she reads a chapter of the children’s book Heidi to my son while I cook dinner. Twice, she’s challenged him to a long-distance game of chess, labelling the squares to keep track of…
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Gravida and Parity: COVID-19 a test case in adequate culture and collective behaviour
We will need to be smart, and rational, without shaming people for their fear and worry. Culture is co-created by the people who live it together. With our empty shopping carts, we can run headlong and elbows out toward the…
Why teens self-harm and how you can help
WARNING: This article includes subject matter that may be disturbing to some. Desperation, hopelessness, being overwhelmed — the feelings started creeping in when Cassandra Waldbauer turned 12 years old. She couldn’t pin down what was happening, nor could she find…
Gravida and Parity: To carry it well and let it go
A girls walks to her primary school with her mother on the first day of the new school year in Vertou, western France. Loic Venance / Getty Images My kids have a new baby sister: she is four days old…
Alberta ‘baby whisperer’ fosters dozens of children in care
January 21 2020 7:44pm He’s called the baby whisperer and over the last 20 years, the Fort Saskatchewan senior and his wife have fostered dozens of children in need. Sarah Ryan has his story. ‘ }); } else { var…
The empty nester’s guide to surviving the holidays
Whether your children are away at university, adventuring overseas or spending the holiday with their new in-laws, navigating the Christmas season with an empty nest can be difficult. Mother-of-two Susan Gross has been there and co-wrote to help empty nesters…
Dear Santa: Global News reads letters from your kids
Posted December 20, 2019 2:27 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ It was the pink poop that did it. We were waffling on whether to do a 2019 edition of Global…
Why forcing kids to say sorry doesn’t really work
It’s a common command heard in homes, schools and childcare centres following a dispute between children: “Say you’re sorry.” It’s likely followed by: “Now say you’re sorry like you mean it.” Clinical counsellor and educator Deborah MacNamara questions if children…
Gravida and Parity: Advent season offers daily reflection on the kind of light we generate
Lisa Martin notes the advent season allows us to think about the slow, daily advance of time and how to best use it. Getty Images On December 1st each year, my kids and I hang up our advent calendar — a…
Will you marry me? What’s really behind preschool proposals
“I want to marry you.” My three-year-old-son gazed up with a shy smile as he professed his love to me from the backseat of the car. “Awww,” I replied. The tears began to well up in my eyes until the…