A couple of things have been bothering me in the news recently: 1. That in the United States, pizza sauce is officially considered a vegetable. Sodium riddled, processed, pre-made tomato sauce counts as a component of a healthy diet? I don’t think so. 2. Here in Canada (in Toronto more specifically) a school has banned [...]
Kieron Williamson is an eight-year-old boy living in Norfolk England. He took up sketching and painting when he was about six years old and has been honing his craft ever since. His parents, who like to collect art but claim to have very little artistic talent themselves, were shocked to see the results of their [...]
Babies are smarter than we think. At least, this is the case according to Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology and philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. Gopnik outlines her claim about infant intelligence in her fascinating TED talk entitled What Do Babies Think? Gopnik tested children’s understanding of individual preferences by using [...]
BPA, a chemical found in many plastic food and drink containers is under scrutiny for the effect it could potentially have on children. If children are exposed to BPA even before birth, a study published online in Pediatrics this week demonstrates a correlation between poor behaviour in three year old girls and higher BPA levels [...]
Not that it’s anything new, but a study recently published in Pediatrics suggests that children under the age of two should not be exposed to ‘screen time’ (in front of a television, computer, ipad etc…). As well, as quoted in Wired Magazine, The American Academy of Pediatrics explained that media (whether your child is watching [...]
Just because you can get pregnant in your late forties or even fifties, should you? This is the question a recent Globe and Mail article explored given the advancing fertility technologies available to older women wanting to get pregnant. Sure, it takes off a little bit of the biological clock edge that many women feel, [...]
Writing a parenting magazine as well as a website for parents you can get a lot of flack when your material, in reality, focuses on mothers rather than parents. It’s true, more and more men are taking an active role in family life than ever before. Men take parental leave from work, men can be [...]
A recent study involving 60 four year old children found that a child’s mental function can be temporarily diminished after watching only nine minutes of a fast paced cartoon (in this case, SpongeBob SquarePants). The SpongeBob watchers were compared against two other groups of children who either watched a much slower-paced show, Caillou, or asked [...]
There is a debate going on at babble.com regarding whether or not formula ads should be allowed on this parenting blog site. Catherine Connors (herbadmother.com) argues that her role as an executive and a contributor at Babble.com does not conflict with the fact that she is a breast feeding advocate even though Babble does host [...]
