Alone

Alone

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...
Show Me The Money, Honey!

Show Me The Money, Honey!

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...
Suicide rates among Canadian girls rising

Suicide rates among Canadian girls rising

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...

Beyond the job description

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...