by HomeOfEighT8 | Apr 28, 2014 | Advice, Featured Article, Parenting, Resources
The following video was produced by the Israeli Association of Rape Crisis Centres. The clip is a short animated movie for parent and kids. The intension of this venture is, on one hand, to guide parents on how to identify CSA, and, on the other hand, encourage...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Jan 13, 2014 | Advice, Featured Article, Resources
Earlier this year, a New York City woman–I’ll call her Mary–tried to leave her abusive husband. She contacted a shelter, but the shelter wouldn’t take pets. Nor would any other shelter in the city. Mary’s son said he couldn’t leave his three cats behind. And so, since...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Nov 18, 2013 | Advice, Featured Article, Health, Parenting, Resources
A hard hitting documentary which follows a journalist as he explores the harsh underbelly of the California drug scene
by HomeOfEighT8 | Nov 18, 2013 | Advice, Featured Article, Health, Resources
No one brings dinner when your daughter is an addict. When my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, we ate well. Mary Beth and I had both read the terrifying pathology report of a tumor the size of an olive. The surgical digging for lymph nodes was followed by months...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Sep 23, 2013 | Advice, Featured Article, Health, Resources
You’re 19, officially an adult. Happy birthday. Now get out of the house. As parents, few of us would take such a brutal approach. Yet in our role as citizens that is exactly the style we adopt toward teenagers “in care” of the Crown — for whom...
by HomeOfEighT8 | May 26, 2013 | Advice, Featured Article, Nicole's Blog, Parenting
Nicole Andrews The Cridge Young Parent Outreach Program nandrews@cridge.org As a busy Mom, these are some of my tips that I use every day to try and make my life a little easier. I have two kids and my partner has four, so every other week we become a family of...
