parental advisory

Follow up on the stupidity of telling your kids to follow their dreams post

Just heard this Ted Talk entitled “Why you will fail to have a great career” from economist Larry Smith at a Ted-Ex talk in Waterloo, Ontario. If you have 15 minutes, give it a listen- it is about all the excuses we make to NOT pursue our interests, which in turn ensures that none ofContinue reading “Follow up on the stupidity of telling your kids to follow their dreams post”

Are we corrupting our children? The debate about raunchy lyrics (yes there is one)

When I was ten, my favourite tape (yes, I am that old. I was buying tapes well into late teens. I still regret the unfortunate advent of CDs- stupid technology) was the soundtrack of Grease. In fact, I remember going directly from the soundtrack of the movie Annie, full of funny and moving songs aboutContinue reading “Are we corrupting our children? The debate about raunchy lyrics (yes there is one)”

Why its hard not to be a paranoid freak of a parent

Because of stories like this: Gun pulled on mom Via BlogherWow. Psycho policewoman gets drunk on power and then takes it out on another mother. If I said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times: guns and cars. Bad idea. Guns and frustrating , pushy line-ups to get your kids home as quick asContinue reading “Why its hard not to be a paranoid freak of a parent”

I watched the movie Stardust with the kids the other day and was confronted with this Parental Advisory note at the beginning: Rated PG-13 for some fantasy violence and risque humor. Hmmm. Fantasy violence? Risque humor? After I stopped laughing and spluttering my herbal tea everywhere, I asked myself the only sane question a personContinue reading “Parental Advisory”