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Children Address Gender Inequality in Controversial Video

October 22, 2014 by Mubina Visram 2 Comments

Several young children make it clear that gender inequality needs to end in advocacy T-shirt company FCKH8.com’s shocking viral video. In FCKH8.com’s new controversial charity fundraising video, five girls between the ages of 6 and 13, dressed as princesses make it clear that gender … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life, News Stories Tagged With: charity fundraising, children's humour, feminism, funny kids, gender discrimination, gender inequality, women's rights

Value Village Pulls ‘Sexy’ Children’s Halloween Costumes From The Shelves

October 22, 2014 by Tanya Cruz 1 Comment

Value Village has agreed to pull some "sexy" girls' costumes from their shelves after a mom's blog post went viral. Raina Delisle went to a Value Village in Victoria, B.C looking for a firefighter costume for her little 4-year-old girl. When she found one, she wasn't impressed by how sexualized the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life, News Stories Tagged With: Halloween, halloween costumes, inappropriate halloween costumes, sexy halloween costumes, value village

Nanny Caught On Camera Abusing Twins

October 16, 2014 by Marianne Litman 1 Comment

A lot of us scoff at the idea of enlisting the help of a nanny cam. I personally (and maybe naïvely) would like to believe that I can trust the person I have hired as a nanny to take proper care of my children. That is why we all go through such rigorous processes to find nannies, au pairs and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life, News Stories Tagged With: care giver, care.com, child abuse, dana cash, Nanny, news, shaken baby syndrome

Malala Yousafzai Becomes Youngest Person To Receive Nobel Peace Prize

October 10, 2014 by Tanya Cruz Leave a Comment

17-year-old Malala Yousafzai was awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Friday morning. She is the youngest person ever to receive the prestigious award, sharing it with fellow children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi. The two were honoured for their ongoing efforts to make education a basic right … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life, News Stories Tagged With: activism, children's right, education, human rights, Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize, odvocacy

Heartbreaking Bucket List Baby Makes Short Visit To The World

October 9, 2014 by Mubina Visram 1 Comment

Baby Shane, whose parents carried out a bucket list on his behalf after a fatal fetal diagnosis, passed away soon after his birth today. Philadelphia natives Jenna and Dan Haley, who organized a heartbreaking bucket list for their terminally ill unborn baby Shane, announced the baby’s birth and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life, News Stories Tagged With: anencephaly, Baby Shane, bucket list baby, Jenna and Dan Haley

4-Year-Old Boy Who Died From Enterovirus D68 Was Asymptomatic

October 8, 2014 by Tanya Cruz Leave a Comment

New Jersey health officials have confirmed that the sudden death of 4-year-old Eli Waller in September,  was caused by respiratory illness enterovirus D68. The little boy, from Hamilton, NJ,  stayed home from preschool that day when his parents noticed he was developing what they thought was a mild … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life, News Stories Tagged With: asymptomatic, cold, coughing, eli waller, Enterovirus D68, EV_D68, flu, flu-like symptoms

Girls Can Only Date Superheroes According To Sexist Target PJs

October 1, 2014 by Tanya Cruz 2 Comments

Target Canada is getting slammed across social media for selling what many people are calling sexist baby pyjamas. The outcry all started when Aimée Morrison, a professor at the University of Waterloo, posted a picture of these baby onesies on her Twitter. They both feature the Superman logo … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life, News Stories

Over 100 Ontario Children Infected With Rare Respiratory Virus EV-D68

September 25, 2014 by Tanya Cruz Leave a Comment

Image via ABC News A serious respiratory virus has infected over 100 Ontario children, the Toronto Star reports. The McMaster Children’s Hospital released their results Wednesday, noting that Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) has infected 96 people in Hamilton in the past four weeks alone. The EV-D68 cold … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life, News Stories Tagged With: cold and flu, cold and flu season, Enterovirus D68, EV-D68, respiratory virus

This Dad Has Been Labelled A Child Pornographer

September 12, 2014 by Marianne Litman 6 Comments

Social media, it can be a real b***h. You post something to the web, it is sent out into the world and you have no way to know how it will be interpreted, distorted or exploited. Wyatt Neumann experienced this first hand after photos he posted of his two-year-old daughter had the internet … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Infants & Toddlers, News Stories, Parenting, Parenting Issues Tagged With: exploitation, Instagram, social media, wyatt neumann

Joan Rivers Dies At 81

September 4, 2014 by Marianne Litman Leave a Comment

We followed along with her as the sometimes host of “The Tonight Show” and the star of the hilarious television series “Fashion Police”. Having Joan on the red carpet was always a treat and she never failed to keep audiences laughing along with her. Comedian Joan Rivers has passed away today after … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebrity, Entertainment, News Stories Tagged With: celebrity news, death, dying, Joan Rivers, melissa rivers

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