When does homework hurt more than it helps?
BY PAUL LUKE THE PROVINCE Bev Shaughnessy says she and her daughter are being eaten alive by the homework monster. Arieanna, a Grade 4 student in Delta, gets at least 10 hours of homework a week,...
View Article‘What about me makes you proud?’: Dads and kids open up in touching Father’s...
A Vancouver-based production company is hoping their Father’s Day video campaign will inspire dads and kids this year to say the things that matter while they still can. The video, titled Tell Them...
View ArticleMother’s Day Q&A: 14 questions with B.C. children’s advocate Mary Ellen...
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth, spends her days helping children and then goes home to her own family.
View ArticleWhere B.C.’s young drivers get the most tickets
Young speed demon drivers are more likely to get nabbed on B.C.’s rural highways, while big-city police write most of the tickets for distracted driving, ICBC data suggests. The Province analyzed ICBC...
View ArticleOpinion: Keep Ottawa out of the childcare business
When subsidies go to childcare spaces or centres, rather than directly to parents, it amounts to a form of soft coercion.
View ArticleWayne Moriarty: Lessons in frugality learned from the waste not, want not...
I moved my dad to a care home about a year ago. After the move came “the move.” You know, cleaning out the old stuff. I kept so little from my father’s home. Gave some of it away. Couldn’t get the rest...
View ArticleLife is complex with 12 kids — even more so when living in an RV
I represent a failure of the rhythm method. Born at a time when celibacy was the only truly effective birth control, my parents took a chance in bed one night and rolled the love dice. That they chose...
View ArticleMore aging B.C. parents struggling to raise adult children with disabilities
Dallas and Ardith Hinton have been worrying most of their married lives about who will care for their daughter when they die. They want 30-year-old Nora — who has Down syndrome, mobility issues and...
View ArticleDrs. Paula Rochon and Danielle Martin: We need data to close the sex and...
The world was watching as two women were scheduled to make history by leading the inaugural all-female spacewalk. What should have been a groundbreaking step forward resulted in a giant leap backwards....
View ArticleAdventure awaits at B.C. summer camps
So many opportunities for kids to try new activities and have fun
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Get the sleep you dream of
The moon streaming across the black river lead twinkling stars in a dance across the sky. The music was supplied by the sweet hooting of a nearby owl accompanied by a cricket orchestra. This is the...
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A Little Boy's Paradise
When I was a little girl, my room was Disney from floor to ceiling. All the cartoons I watched on TV were Disney, from Duck Tales to Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers . My friends and I re-enacted...
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All Aboard!
Welcome aboard the craziest ride of parenthood! It’s a long, windy track full of unscheduled stops with a guarantee that you will, at least once, miss your train or make a wrong connection....
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Luxury of Mommy Guilt
There is nothing more annoying, heartbreaking, and stress-making, then when you are trying to get out the door and this little sprite is following you while wailing: “Mommy! Nooooo! Don’t go!”...
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The Road Runner of Gradual Entry
I have been trying to figure out what I can say about first day of preschool but the truth of the matter is that it was rather anti-climatic. There were no tearful good-byes, breath...
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Little Miss Etiquette
Arms aching, cheeks flushed, the mall’s air conditioner failing against a hundred or so packed bodies. Parents stand like sardines clutching their children; each one jostling for the best sightline so...
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One Stressed Out Damosel
One of the first things that I learned as a student mom is that if I fall into some free time, then I am definitely forgetting something! I was just inching my way to the other side of flu, when I...
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A Closet Mama
I have a confession. I am secretly, at-heart…for lack of a better term, an at-home mommy. While, it might not come as a surprise to many that my son is my life. It is a strange struggle for me. The...
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Z is for Zen
It’s been one of those days…okay, weeks…all right, fine, months. Where I have been pulled in so many different directions, I am not sure which way is up any more. Every week is a juggling act to...
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The Responsible Thing
I was being responsible. I was doing the right thing. I had been looking forward all week to my son’s Preschool Christmas Party. Unfortunately, my take-home exam and this annoying cold were eating up...
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