Before you were conceived, I wanted you Before you were born, I loved you Before you were here an hour, I would die for you This is the miracle of life ~Maureen Hawkins Happy Birthday Kate! You are magnificent.
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The Nipper has the Best Ideas Ever Invented. He said, last night on the way to rehearsal, “you know what would be cool, would be if they made a Call of Duty ™ game that’s age-appropriate for kids and they called it Call of Ducky. And you’d play this duck having adventures all over in [...] By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Canada ranks 17th out of 29 wealthy countries when it comes to tackling child poverty, obesity and related well-being issues, says a new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN children’s agency. The Innocenti Report Card 11 by UNICEF’s Research Office also reveals that the Canada [...] The post Canada ranks 17th of 29 for children’s well-being, says UNICEF report appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. When it comes to teaching my kids about the world, I never assumed science would be a top priority. Yet these days I find myself spending little time focusing on language, instead opting for discussions about things like gravity, the solar system and human evolution. This is partly due to my children’s natural curiosity about such topics. But one might also argue that our future as a species depends on our ability to think critically, and base our decisions on evidence and reason. (Climate change denial, and its potentially dire consequences, might be the ultimate example of our collective failure . . . → Read More: Boreal Citizen: Can reason and secularism protect kids from anti-science rhetoric (and build a better society)? I’m not really into the whole prostitution is what happens between consenting adults argument. I find that it reeks with the notion that the experiences of a lucky few, a sub set of a sub set, somehow overlays what happens to most people who get involved in prostitution; that would be degradation, pain, and suffering. Layer that with helplessness, fear and shame and your have a tried and true recipe for broken human beings. Prostitution is not okay. It is never okay and thus the topic is set for your Thursday DWR PSA. Thank you to Buy . . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: Prostitution – Hurting Women and Children; Always. B.C. premier’s office mobbed over child-care costs CBC News Posted: Mar 9, 2013 4:49 PM PT Lots of people complain that those who cannot afford childcare should simply stay home, or conversely, have no children until they can afford them (the 12th of never for many.) Let’s be honest and creative here (and, full disclosure, I have no children) and take the money, with which we already subsidize the rich parent and pay into private schools, and transfer it to a subsidy for daycare, based on a sliding scale of ability to pay, just like our medical plan . . . → Read More: Left Over: Subsidizing Reality in BC Groups Submit Report on Worldwide Sex Abuse Crisis By: Center for Constitutional Rights (Press Release) | Feb. 28, 2013: NEW YORK and ROME – Today, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an alternate report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child READ MORE The manager of our restaurant is close personal friends with Joe Paopao, the Throwin’ Samoan. He used to come home at lunch bruised and battered from running patterns for him in the street. Our manager drawls his vowels, and flattens them, like the peaks of things threaten him. He lives on the west coast, where [...] A recent report on the Syrian conflict by Human Rights Watch accused the Free Syria Army rebels of using children as young as 14 as child fighters. Now another rebel group, the Syria Justice and Freedom, recent posted a propaganda video YouTube featuring AK-47-totting children. If you think using a 14-year old as a fighter is disgusting, imagine indoctrinating a five year old. READ MORE Finally, a TV ad that tells it like it is: Exxon hates your children! That’s according to: Exxon Hates Your Children: “From As Congress debates what actions to take to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff” perhaps no programs are less worthy of government support than those which subsidize Big Oil, Gas, and Coal. Read on to [...] A Taliban gunman shot her as she made her way home from school in Pakistan. She survived the assassination attempt and is now recovering at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital hospital in the UK. Today, Malala Yousafzai has become the symbol … . . . → Read More: Canadian ProgressiveCanadian Progressive: Malala Yousafzai Honoured With Global Day Of Action Globally, 61 million children, most of them girls, are denied their birthright to education. They’re discriminated against, marginalized and exploited. Please click here to add your voice to millions around the world calling on governments and… . . . → Read More: Canadian ProgressiveCanadian Progressive: Shame: 61 million children not in school worldwide 
 access to education, Activism, BIG IDEAS, children, Children And Youth, discrimination, Education, exploitation, Gordon Brown, Malala Day, Malala Yousafzai, Pakistan, petition, Progressives, religion, rights, Taliban, Terrorism, tv, United Nations, video, Vimeo, War on Women, World News by Obert Madondo (@Obiemad) Green Party leader Elizabeth May is calling for a “Guaranteed Livable Income” as a strategy to eradicate poverty in Canada. In a press release commemorating October 17, the United Nations Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands said the Green Party of Canada was the only federal party advocating making poverty [...]
aboriginals, BIG IDEAS, Canada, children, Children And Youth, economic inequality, elizabeth may, Green Party of Canada, Guaranteed Livable Income, homeless, immigrants, income, International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Key Profiles, News, occupy, Poverty, Progressives, social injustice, United Nations Today, October 17, is the United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Elizabeth May, the leader of the Green Party of Canada and MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands, is calling for a “Guaranteed Livable Income” in Canada. “The theme of the 2012 observance is ‘Ending the Violence of Extreme Poverty’. It serves as a reminder [...]
aboriginals, BIG IDEAS, Blog, Canada, Canada Politics, children, economic inequality, elizabeth may, food banks, Green Party of Canada, Guaranteed Livable Income, homeless, immigrants, income, International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, leadership, MP, News, occupy, Ottawa, Poverty, Progressives, rights, social injustice, United Nations Sadly, even in these modern times, children go missing and finding them can be difficult. The NotFound Project hopes to help find missing children by making use of 404 pages online. 404 pages refer to pages on a website that cannot be found, so it makes thematic sense to use that classification of page to find people. You can see an example of this by clicking here. If you have a website then you can help the project too! The NotFound Project. Okay, I guess I need to preface this post about the recall of infant chairs by reminding you that all parents are psychotic. All of us. First, we decide to host parasites. IN OUR BODIES. Or, if we choose not … Continue reading → How to Get Your Kids to Stop Bitching About Doing Yardwork: Ask politely. Ask politely again. Ask firmly, but politely, for the ungrateful turds to pitch in once in a while around the house. Give up on politely. Tell the … Continue reading → He hates hockey… he really does. See this hockey player? Thomas Mulcair hates hockey. He would ban our children from playing hockey. THIS CHILD WOULD NEVER REPRESENT HIS COUNTRY AT THE OLYMPICS! Thomas Mulcair hates hockey, children and his country. Only a strong Conservative majority government can stop him. (7) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario The 7-year-old Uncertainty Principle (7yoUP) states that you may observe any number of 7-year-olds in your yard at an instant in time, but you can never actually know how many 7-year-olds are in your yard. You can know the *identity* … Continue reading → You know who should not have access to phone/mp3 player/distractothon 3000′s? Junior high students. Responsible use of electronics seems out of reach of many of my students. The best part is that they are willing to die on that technological hill with all the ensuing teen-age drama that seems to shadow their every step. A solution could be cell phone jamming in particular areas where taking phone calls would not be appropriate. I just may have to ask Santa for such a device for testing purposes.
Filed under: Rant Tagged: Children, Rant, Teaching, Technology . . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: Cell Phones in Junior High – My Bane. Analysis by the Canadian Press shows that the three of the top four Canadian charities that received the most foreign funding were Care Canada, World Vision Canada and the Canadian UNICEF Committee, all known for helping starving children, many in war torn areas. Many of these children were victims of war and some were likely to have been child soldiers, often forced into battle by captors and
GC and Rosie and I were out walking on Saturday afternoon, when we encountered the following scene. Two boys, perhaps eleven or twelve years old, had climbed up on top of a structure by the fountain in Centrepoint Park. They were perched up there dispensing financial advice to a somber-looking boy of about eight, who was sitting on the ground, listening attentively. We missed the first part, and the last part, but we caught the middle. Here’s what we heard: “…then go to university but keep living with your mom and then get a good job but don’t move out, . . . → Read More: knitnut.net: Financial Planning for Kids I think one of the smartest things a parent can do is get rid of the TV if they have children. TV land is a violently misogynistic place that perpetuates the current ugly set of cultural norms we have here in North America. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation shares some startling/depressing facts about what people are subjected to while they watch TV. “Nearly 2 out of 3 TV programs contained some violence,2 averaging about 6 violent acts per hour.3 • Fewer than 5% of these programs featured an anti-violence theme or prosocial message emphasizing alternatives . . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: You are what you watch – Violence in the Media
I was scanning my google reader the other day and I saw Dumb Little Man had a blog post called Five Surefire Ways to Kill Your Marriage. It’s hard to live up to a killer title like that. The article itself was predictable: Date night, sex, mind-reading, negativity, blah blah blah. Except for #5! 5. Putting your children before your spouse This one is a big one. In today’s world, children are everything. They need to be catered to, given a ride to different activities, helped with homework, formed into perfect little creatures that will eventually take over the world. . . . → Read More: knitnut.net: Do you put your children or your marriage first? Sometimes, you just have to stop thinking of them as your own flesh and blood and start thinking of them as what they really are – your underage roommates. This is how you will begin to understand where we as … Continue reading → |
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