Parents

Health

Which generation of parents had it the hardest? It depends who you ask

Is parenting really harder today?  Last Wednesday, the U.S. surgeon general issued a public health advisory about the impact of…

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Canada

Kids are getting lost boarding the wrong school bus home. Parents want answers

It started with a post in an Ottawa parenting Facebook group for children born in 2020, who started junior kindergarten…

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Lifestyle

Phone use and kids: Parents’ manners

Editor’s note: Dr. Katie Hurley, DSW, LCSW, is a child and adolescent psychotherapist, educator, public speaker and writer. The views expressed here are her…

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Health

Modern parenting is so stressful that the U.S issued a health advisory. Parents say it’s overdue

Parenting these days can often feel like treading water, begging for someone to throw you a rope. But instead of pulling…

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Health

These parents turned agony of losing daughters to intimate partner violence into missions to help others

WARNING: This story contains discussion of intimate partner violence. Brett Broadfoot never imagined fighting against intimate partner violence would become such…

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Politics

Tory MP deletes post that claimed cost of living is driving parents to traffic kids

Politics Conservative MP Michelle Ferreri has deleted a post on X that claimed the affordability crisis has driven parents to…

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Lifestyle

Doctors can prescribe spa breaks to frazzled parents in this country

Being a parent is tiring, no doubt about it. Add balancing a career, a household, plus maybe being a single…

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Nova Scotia

Some parents questioning how N.S. school lunch program will cater to all dietary needs

The last time Greg Hayward sent his six-year-old son Alexander to a birthday party, he prepared a gluten-free hotdog and…

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Canada

P.E.I. parents, advocacy groups say some children being denied right to an education

Ten-year-old Xavier is supposed to be in elementary school in Summerside, P.E.I., from September to June. Instead, he has been…

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Nova Scotia

Inclusive education in Nova Scotia not working, some parents say

Some parents in Nova Scotia say they’re taking their kids out of school or considering leaving the province altogether because…

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