by HomeOfEighT8 | May 1, 2014 | Advice, Health, Nicole's Blog, Parenting, Resources
The following video is a powerful message from the 1 is 2 many campaign started in the U.S. by Vice President Biden. Despite the significant progress made in reducing violence against women, there is still a long way to go. Young women still face the highest rates of...
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, Parenting, Resources
A few months ago, a picture of a woman in one of those desperate parenting situations was covered by several news organizations. It showed the woman holding a toddler boy over a public trash can somewhere in B.C. so he could go pee – which he was doing in spectacular...
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...
