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 | Oct 11, 2012 | Featured Article, Health, Parenting, Pregnancy
Body Modifications are a group of practices that include branding, scarification, tattooing, piercing, and other body art. Body modifications have been around nearly as long as breastfeeding. Archaeologists, historians and body art practitioners note that tattooing...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Oct 3, 2012 | Health, Nicole's Blog, Resources
Nicole Andrews The Cridge Young Parent Outreach Program nandrews@cridge.org This blog started with a conversation that lead to 3 more, then a few more after that, then a quote I read: “Be WITH someone who makes you happy!” This is a question that I struggle...
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...
