Vic Wit

When my son was just over 1, he was a friendly, wandering sort. One day we were in a restaurant for a get together and he started wandering off after dinner. I quickly followed him but not before he'd gone up to several tables to say "hi". One table was obviously a young guy and woman… Read More

My son was 2 and I was several months pregnant with my daughter. My husband was working late, so I was alone when I heard the distinctive sounds of my son throwing up in his toddler bed. When I got to his room I discovered he was projectile vomiting (stomach flu) - EVERYWHERE. It… Read More

People are allowed to spend their money where they like. The clothes the dead person is wearing will literally rot too, but we don't condone grave robbing, do we? Not to mention a lot of the time, the families take the flowers and cards that came with them home with them (perhaps… Read More

So it's for the parents until then? SMH the comments on this article...

So do nothing because you need to wait for the kid to pick their own theme? Nurseries are for parents. Kids don't even walk til like 9 months. They aren't flipping through decorating magazines. If they want to do this now - who cares? It will be the parents getting the most of the… Read More

Not everyone likes the cutesy stuff (nor should people be limited to pastels when babies process primary colours and contrasts so much better). Why not do a room a baby can grown into?

I would assume they will baby proof as needed. As the parent of 3 kids, I'm sure you know babies don't start to walk til like 9 months (on the early side).

Seconded. This is beautifully written. I only have one grandparent left (granted I am in my thirties and lost 2 only in the last few years), but I can't help feeling that family is slipping away and I wish I could hold onto them longer.

Or Canada is reserving space for actual refugees not privileged Americans who think they can close their own doors and then move wherever they want. Or it's a... Joke.

Because there are different dialects of French - literally all over the world? Francophones in Canada (who've been separate from France for 150 years) by and large say croustilles - chips is an English word and therefore considered slang here. Some of those chip flavours in Bretagne… Read More