A Brief History of Questionable Parenting Advice
As a diversion from all this mess, I decided to go spelunking through the archives of The New York Times to see what kinds of bonkers parenting advice we were…
Ways to help your child’s brain develop
At birth, your baby’s brain contains 100 billion neurons but in his very first year, the child grows trillions of brain-cell connections, called neural synapses. Pretty impressive, right? But, this…
B.C.’s child-care system is broken. Will any political party follow through on a promise to fix it?
This story is part of Amy Bell’s Parental Guidance column, which airs on CBC Radio One’s The Early Edition. In the lead up to the election, all parties have made various promises to help parents…