This morning over on Reddit, I saw an article posted about a 5 year old girl who had been placed in a 3.5 metre x 2 metre (about 7′ x 12′) storage closet at school as punishment for “kicking a table”. Continue reading Discipline (A to Z Blog Challenge – “D” – April 2019)
As many of you know, we lived in a yurt in the woods from 1999 to 2001 when our son was between the ages of 5 months and two years old. When we moved there our eight cats moved with … Continue reading Bear Attack – (A to Z Blog Challenge – “B” – April 2019)
It’s 2018 and I am in a taxi leaving Jaipur. We pass a large building on Ajmer Road in the outskirts of town. Karan, our driver gestures at it and says “That’s the new Pepsi factory.” I and the other … Continue reading Spend Wisely – Others Depend on You
For the second time this week I have found myself writing what was going to be an epic comment on someone else’s blog post and realizing that it would be better and likely more polite to just move the whole … Continue reading Childhood Eating Habits
Tanvir’s latest entry talks about the impact that our smart phones have on our lives and social interactions. The sentiment is one I’ve seen in many entries and had in many conversations as well: Our phones take us out of … Continue reading Emerging From Your Phone
I live in Toronto, a city whose identity includes “Environmental consciousness” in a country who also thinks of itself as environmentally conscious. It’s easy to think that we’re on the cutting edge of everything. Just take a look: Our province, … Continue reading Different Countries’ Response to Environmental Consciousness
Four weeks ago I was feeling the beginnings of what I’ve pretty much accepted as what my adult life is right now: Shorter, colder days mean an increasingly bleak outlook on life. Add to that the fact that my job … Continue reading Dealing With the Winter Blahs
