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 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...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Apr 11, 2012 | Advice, Nicole's Blog, Resources
So I sit here and the title of this blog post would be “Show Me The Money, Honey”. But I am conflicted as I write this because I want to write from a place that represents living in poverty and trying to raise a child. But I also have this other compelling side to...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Apr 2, 2012 | Advice, Resources
Suicides are increasing at an alarming rate among Canadian girls, with hanging, strangulation and other forms of suffocation now the predominant methods used by children and adolescents – regardless of sex – to kill themselves. It’s a disturbing phenomenon that...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Mar 26, 2012 | Advice, Nicole's Blog, Resources
So today is the first day of trying to keep up with all my brilliant ideas and to start to blog about my experiences as a young parent outreach worker. I know I have it in me; the ideas are always filling my head. Trying to source material for the parents I work with...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Mar 14, 2012 | Advice, Resources
Teenage pregnancy is associated with health challenges and health risk behaviours. However, promoting protective factors in the lives of young people who are involved in a pregnancy may help foster healthy development. This is the conclusion from the recently released...
