Warping our child, one day at a time
B.C. cuts grants to daycares, preschools, playgrounds.
From the Vancouver Sun:
“The government confirmed it had cut gaming grants for preschools, childcare centres and resource centres to $4.6 million this year, from $8.9 million last year.
The grant money comes from $1.1 billion in annual lottery, gambling and casino revenue, but the government said it needs the bulk [...]
Doctors, parents need better communication.
This Vancouver Sun article highlights the importance of parents telling doctors when their children are taking multivitamins or vitamin supplements. Some parents do not realize that vitamins can interfere with medication absorption (increasing or decreasing it).
Let children experience a little danger. This article in the Vancouver Sun today talks about a book entitled 50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do) by Gever Tulley.
It suggests, among other things, letting them lick a 9V battery. I (fondly?) remember licking a 9V battery.
Ok, maybe not fondly. But the concept of bubble-wrapped [...]
B.C. school districts get funding boost.
Well, the BC budget has come out and it’s not doom and gloom for the education sector as had been feared!
In fact, education, as well as sports and arts funding for youths, got a boost.
Yay BC! (I think, I haven’t read through the rest of the budget yet!!)
A happy marriage starts with simple gestures.
Happy relationships are built on the small things, including taking time away from the kids once in a while.
Make coffee for your partner.
Tell them they look sexy.
Talk!
Have fun!
Sounds good to us.
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9 Feb 2010Mother’s age related to autism. More deficiencies and defects with advanced maternal age. Not really “new” news. http://bit.ly/amPPbT
British medical journal discredits link between MMR vaccine, autism.
Autism is a very real spectrum disorder.
The link between autism and vaccination is not so real.
Finally, the Lancet retracted a 1998 article that, for many, was the basis of the autism-vaccine link. For years, we’ve known that article was flawed.
Shaken Richmond baby now blind, police say.
Horrible. Disgusting. Are people really that uneducated that they have no idea that shaking their babies will hurt them? I don’t buy the “ignorance” claim often cited. Other side of the coin, however, I greatly value programs such as PURPLE, developed by a paediatrician at UBC, which teaches parents [...]
Harper seeks G8 focus on maternal, child health.
Harper plans to focus G8 on maternal and child health of developing countries.
That’s truly great.
But what about here in our own country as well?
There are still too many Canadian children living in poverty.
How to keep women on the career ladder – The Globe and Mail.
The challenges of being a female academic: mother, wife, graduate student/professor.
Let me tell ya, it ain’t easy.
But, it can work, if you’re fortunate enough to be in a rather progressive academic system and have a rather sane partner at home.
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