Dadventure

Seriously. A studio called Tantra Fitness in Vancouver is offering summer classes in pole dancing for kids.
The Canadian company, which operates in Vancouver and Langley, has taught students age nine and up in regular classes, and has gone as young as five years old in private lessons.

Maybe I am wrong [...]

Brian at RebelDad tipped me off to this video and the website The Girl Effect. It’s a very nice piece of social activism aimed at getting people to support young woman.
The site and video speak to the power of potential in young women as agents of change in their communities. Girls grow into women, strong [...]

Early in the new year a new law will go into effect in the US that may have severely damaging effects on small, independent toy makers.
The new law, called the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, was designed to prevent unsafe toys (like the made in China toys that seemed to be under constant recall last [...]

I remember clearly when my wife told me that she was pregnant with our first. “Holy crap, We’re going to have a baby!!!!” This was followed about 30 seconds later by, “holy crap, we’re going to have a baby.” The difference between the two is in the tone. Excitement and joy for the first, fear [...]

In Quebec, families pay $7 a day for childcare. Or, to put it into terms I can directly relate to, if our family lived in Quebec, we would have $862 a month more in our pockets. $10,344 more in disposable income each year.
Talk about an economic stimulus package.
But beyond the economics for working families, the [...]