by HomeOfEighT8 | Jul 4, 2012 | Featured Article, Nicole's Blog, Parenting
Too many balls in the air. You’ll understand the title when I explain where this is going. So I’m writing this at home while my youngest daughter is on the couch. It’s 2 pm in the afternoon on a school day. Get where this is going? She is home sick. And not...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Jun 25, 2012 | Advice, Nicole's Blog, Parenting
Young fathers are just as important and integral to their children’s lives as young mothers are, but, it just so happens that we know a lot less about young fathers. Past research on young parents has overwhelmingly focused on the mother, in part, this is...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Jun 5, 2012 | Advice, Featured Article, Nicole's Blog, Parenting
So I have written a few blogs now and they have been a little on the heavy and emotional side so I decided to try one with a bit of a lighter feel to it. Mothering, after all, isn’t always hard work; it can be hysterically funny and sometimes just downright...
by HomeOfEighT8 | May 28, 2012 | Health, Resources
VICTORIA — Infants will soon have a better chance of being born free of alcohol and drug related health challenges, and life-long health and social issues, with the opening of a new drop-in centre close to downtown Victoria for pregnant women with substance use and...
by HomeOfEighT8 | May 4, 2012 | Advice, Featured Article, Nicole's Blog, Parenting, Resources
Alone. Feeling alone. Parenting alone. Single parenting is not the same though. Alone takes on a very different meaning. You can be lonely in a room full of people or lonely sitting on the couch in an empty room. You can only be truly, physically alone in one of those...
