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The Funny Face birthday cake, as per request.
On this day three years ago:
It has been over 12 hours since my first contraction at reading series Pontiac Quarterly in the basement of Toronto’s Drake Hotel. I was able to sleep on and off and things were much the same by morning. Sharp but manageable contractions hitting every ten to twenty minutes and lasting under a minute. I went about my day and sent hubby to work. He got sent home.
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How much TV is too much TV?
Any amount is too much.
No more than half an hour or one hour per day.
DO NOT let the baby look at the TV!
Hmmm.
And if the children seem to be glowing?
It has been over two weeks now since eight-year-old Victoria Stafford was taken from her school in the small town of Woodstock, Ontario. The story is slipping out of the news cycle and hopes are starting to wane.
These kinds of tragedies are heart-wrenching because what parent doesn’t know the feeling of looking up and finding your kid missing. Seeing him turn the bend and worrying that he’ll get lost or hurt or (please, no) abducted. Because we can imagine what that family is feeling. Because we know the agony — we’ve played it out in our heads a million times — that mother is feeling.
But also because we then hold our children ever closer. And we don’t let them walk to their friend’s house — not tonight. And we don’t want them going to the park by themselves. We want to be there, we want to protect them. But that isn’t good for them either. They need room to explore and space to discover their independence. How much space? And how soon? How do we find the right balance of protection and freedom, of guidance and experience? Continue reading 'Kidnapping Fears Keep Children Home'»
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