After seven weeks in the child mental health unit at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Carly and John Sutherland?s nine-year-old son, Callum, was returning home, and his parents were terrified. Their wounds from his violent outbursts?bites and... -

by Charlie Brooks posted in Parenting I\'ve been reading Lewis Carroll\'s Alice in Wonderland to my kids at bedtime. We\'ve also watched the 1951 Disney adaptation. When reading the books, the wordplay caught my kids by surprise. My son,... -

Kids say the darndest things! If you’ve ever written down little kids’ thoughts word for word, you know that the things they say are just SO. DANG. FUNNY. Maybe it’s because they’re still figuring out how language works or because they have... -

by Kelly Wilbanks posted in Parenting I\'m trapped in a prison of my own making. I know I should have been strong when Annie was 4 months old and needed to learn sleeping skills, but I folded time and time again. Now, I have a baby who would... -

Heather Badenoch from Ottawa has always loved giving back: she runs a PR agency for not-for-profits and rescues dogs in her spare time. But recently she went big and decided to give away a third of her liver to a random stranger–a very sick child.... -

by Carolyn Robertson posted in Parenting There are a lot of perks that come with money and fame, but all the riches and red carpets in the world won\'t solve your parenting problems. Just ask -

In hundreds of schools across Canada, the morning announcements start the same way, with a land acknowledgement stating that the building is located in the traditional territory of First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples (FNMI). You may have heard... -

by Ashleigh Evans posted in Parenting As an exhausted new parent, you know there\'s a glimmer of hope waiting down the line -- your child will sleep through the night at some point. With my twins, the first few months were rough. I felt like I... -

So, what clever and effective ways can you play with your kids while lying on the floor or couch" Behold: 14 of our favourite slacker parent activities to interact with the offspring when you just don?t want to get up. 1. What?s on my butt" Get... -

by Melissa Willets posted in Pregnancy While waiting to go into labor, it feels like every other pregnant woman around you is having her baby. All the celebs who announced they were expecting around when I did have popped out theirs. First it... -

by Maggie Downs posted in Life Years ago I went on a year-long backpacking trip that took me through Southeast Asia, where I fell in love with golden temples, kind people, night markets, scooters, khao soi soup, elephants, monkeys, and what... -

by Tara Shafer posted in Parenting It has been more than a decade since I started writing about baby loss and bereavement following the stillbirth of my son in 2005. I started because a friend of mine asked me to write the story of my loss down.... -

June 1: About a Boy Synopsis: Hip, irresponsible Londoner Will invents an imaginary son and starts attending single-parent meetings to find available women. Anaconda Synopsis: When a deranged snake hunter cons his way onto a film crew?s boat to... -

by Brandi Riley posted in Pregnancy At around 1 a.m. this morning, my son Jamie woke up crying. I tried nursing him back to sleep. That didn\'t work. My husband changed his diaper. He was still crying. I checked his temperature, gave his body a... -

Lauren Moses-Brettler had a really rough start nursing her first baby, Holden, who wouldn?t latch for almost a week after he was born. ?It was the most stressful experience of my entire life,? she recalls. ?I wasn?t sleeping, which was the biggest... -

by Whitney Barthel posted in Products Motherhood can be exasperating. And the decisions we make just to feed our children can be enough to scramble your brain. There are so few times a product is 1) easy 2) affordable and 3) not terrible for... -

School\'s out for summer in Georgia and with temperatures rising fast, I\'m always looking for fun ways to entertain Dylan (3) and Lucia (2) indoors. I recently found out that Nickelodeon\'s PAW Patrol is on tour and they are coming to my... -

Everyone had that one teacher from their childhood who taught them more than just the basics, be it in math, science, English or history. You know, the one who inspired the kids in their classroom and opened their eyes to a world of possibilities.... -

by Claudia Boyd-Barrett posted in Pregnancy Your partner\'s mental health could impact your chances of getting pregnant, -