Let's Quit Blaming The Kids...

...and put the blame where it belongs: OVER INDULGENT PARENTS who shirk their responsibility because they want their kids to like them!

Is The Solution The wePhone, wePod, wePad...

The Problem Starts In The Home...

...and that were it has to be fought - NOT the hallowed halls of municipal, provincial and federal troughs.

The Questions Are Many...

Barbara Kay: A child’s biology is not a matter of choice

Children should not be used as guinea pigs in new-aged social experiments.

In 1978, a children’s book was published called X: A Fabulous Child’s Story, about a child with no gender. X liked both football and basket-weaving, ignored schoolyard teasing and ended up as the happiest, most well-adjusted child ever examined by “an impartial team of experts.”

What are the odds of two utopians, married to each other and both blinkered enough to find this unrealistic story so “compelling” they would use it as a template for raising their own child?
Meet one-in-a-trillion Toronto couple Kathy Witterick, 38, and David Stocker, 39, parents of Jazz, 5, and Kio, 2 — both acknowledged to be boys — and their four-month-old baby Storm, knowledge of whose sex the parents are withholding because, after reading Lois Gould’s story, “How could we not?” Read More »

* how will "it" decide which public facility to use
* will "it" stand or sit to pee
* will "it" pickup the cheque for dinner with a person whose biology is known
* will "it" subscribe to the NO MEANS NO in relationships
* if "it" starts a family will it expect to celebrate both mother's and father's day

and the list goes on and on and on.....

Updated: Genderless baby debate: Liberating idea or missed chance? 

A Star story about a family raising a child to be genderless set off a firestorm from readers. Heather Mallick and Catherine Porter discuss.

Black murders a Toronto issue: Editorial


By Toronto Sun

Why is it that 25 of the 28 people shot to death this year in Toronto are black?

...the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree:

BBC News AMERICAS Jamaica murder rate soars

The Star Needs To Look At Reality...

...and look at what has been happening on our streets paricularly during the past couple of weeks. The Star's vendetta against the police continues even in the face of increased violence by groups that cannot be identified due to charges of racial profiling, ethnic diversity and the leftwing social in-activists.

Male victim dies after gunfire in north end


A male has died after being shot in the city's north end Monday night, CTV Toronto reports. The victim was taken to Sunnybrook Hospital for treatment but was pronounced dead.

Police say no links among weekend shootings

Teen stabbed outside Toronto school

Let The Facts Speak For Themselves...

100 more police: Are they really needed? Wed Nov 17 2010
A case can be made that Toronto’s existing police force doesn’t need to be increased, especially given the falling crime rate.

FACT!

Police investigating north-end shooting homicide

Wed Nov 17 2010


Toronto police are investigating a Wednesday afternoon shooting homicide in the city's north end that left a youth dead inside a community housing property's doors.

Should Read: Parents And Culture Have Something To Teach...

...and it extends beyond Asians to most cultures and particularly the first generation.

Tasha Kheiriddin: Asian students have something to teach

Recently, two articles focusing on students of Asian background , one in the Toronto Star, the other in Maclean’s magazine, have caused controversy among academic and social circles alike.

The reports discussed the fact that these students are academically outperforming their non-Asian peers and gaining greater representation in Canadian universities. The Chinese Canadian Council slammed the pieces for “fear mongering” and stoking an “us versus them” mentality, because they cited concerns some students and university administrators had about this trend. Read More »

An Profound Insight...

Let's Start Kicking Butt One Level Higher...

...with the parents!

Kids need a kick in the lazy butt

The kids are all right? Bull. They're not and we're to blame.

Problems Are Not Solved On A Basketball Court...

iPhone app pays off for boy genius

Tue Aug 03 2010

 

Pierce Vallieres may have taught himself to build an app while teaching others to solve the Rubik’s Cube, but he's not the geek you might expect.

KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s

 

KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s This is something I just got in my email, which I had to share with you all. Read it and get a new perspective on the new millenium’s parenting – which suddenly doesn’t seem so great after all.  

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s !! First, we survived being born to mother...

 

Milton Conservative |

Teach Them To Read, Write And Count To Ten....

Same-sex education is important, but it will take time

.....then you can trample on the rights of parents to establish family values.

Schools to students: Do the math

By MOIRA MACDONALD

When Ontario's student testing office released results from the latest round of Grade 3 and 6 tests earlier this month, numbers for Toronto's public school board showed students had made at best modest improvements in attempts to reach the Ontario standard in most subjects over the last five years.

31 Drinks For Three People In One Night?

I don't know about anyone else but in my best days I wouldn't be able to walk, never mind drive, after consuming 10 drinks in one evening, so I have to wonder about the responsibility of the restaurant owners in this tragedy.

Grieving dad publishes letter to McGuinty

Facing The Hard Truth About Child Abuse

Parenting Rule #1...

You're not first, anymore. Your needs, wants and problems take a back seat to the needs of your children. I shouldn't have to say it, anymore.

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While Mommy was shirking her parental responsibilities to deal with "personal issues" -- which miraculously didn't prevent her from partying with friends at Caribana last weekend -- little Katelynn was being abused so badly by the long-term family friend charged with her care, that the autopsy took 6 1/2 hours "due to the "nature and severity of Katelynn's injuries".

Mommy wants to know "why my child?" The answer is very simple...because absolutely NOBODY -- including her own mother -- made her a priority.

And now she's dead. Like so many before her and still some people never learn.

Wonder Woman on August 06, 2008

Look In The Mirror For The Source Of The Problem

Tackling the dropouts 45 min. ago

Parents of young black youth in Toronto rightly despair about how their children are faring in the school system.

An $880K Experiment Doomed To Fail....

.....and the people that will pay are those students in the public school system.

The new racial divide in Charlotte, N.C.
leslie scrivener Feb. 10, 2008 The city was central to a landmark, 1971 U.S. Supreme Court decision that led to the desegregation of the nation's schools. But now, Charlotte's students are segregated once again, and non-white children are paying ...

Let's look at some of the reasons kids drop out of school...

Why some kids drop out of school
By JOHN SNOBELEN

Someone needs to speak for the school dropouts.

Full Column ....and a reason that no one wants to discuss; some kids, like some adults, are losers and look the last couple generations and see that you can survive without working and making any contribution to society. It is called the Just Society as envisioned by Trudeau and have created a cradle to grave underground.

SAD! Who Will Be Blamed? Probably You And I!

Eight-Month-Old Baby Found In Parking Garage Stairwell In North York

Police call the infant's survival in the freezing cold a 'miracle', as they try to confirm her identity.

Body of 2nd child found on Sask. reserve

The frozen body of a baby girl has been found on a Saskatchewan First Nation and it's believed to be the one-year-old sister of a three-year-old girl found dead Tuesday.

Universal Day Care - Battle Cry Of The Left

Are You Ready To "LET THE VILLAGE RAISE YOUR CHILD?"

Universal Child Care Means Ending Parents' Rights

When Hillary Clinton showed television viewers the Christmas presents she wants to give us if she is elected, her most important was Universal Pre-K, following closely after Universal Health Care. Hillary was reminding us of her status as the grand dame of the ideology expressed in her favorite African slogan, "It takes a village to raise a child."

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by Phyllis Schlafly, January 16, 2008

Indeed, there seem to be many busybodies who believe the village, i.e., government functionaries, should make major decisions about the upbringing of children, including what they are taught and how they are medicated. They may approach this incrementally, but their goal is always "universal."

We thought it was outrageous when the Ninth Circuit proclaimed in the Palmdale case in 2005 that the fundamental right of parents over the upbringing of their children "does not extend beyond the threshold of the school door." Now the Hillary-style liberals are also acting as though parents' rights over their own children do not extend beyond the threshold of the local health clinic.

Massachusetts has just started to require that all children in Medicaid (460,000 kids) must be subjected annually to mental health screening in order to detect signs of possible mental illness, autism, or depression. One of the criteria on the questionnaire used to identify mental health problems is that the child is "seeming to have less fun."

It's not hard to predict that many children will be unfairly saddled with a false label, assigned to unnecessary and expensive treatment, and prescribed costly drugs whose effect may range from worthless to harmful. These costs to the taxpayers will be expanded by the inevitable fattening of the pocketbooks of psychiatrists and psychologists.

Last year, there was considerable parental opposition to bills that were introduced into several state legislatures to require mental health screening of all children in public schools. Apparently Plan B is for the state to force the plan on Medicaid recipients, who are less likely to resist.

New Jersey just added four new vaccines to those already required of children who attend public schools, and has become the first state to require the flu vaccine. Children attending preschool or licensed daycare centers must receive the flu shot annually.

New Jersey regulations also require the pneumococcal vaccine for preschoolers, the meningitis vaccine for sixth graders, and a booster shot for the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis they already receive. Despite the protests of many parents, including the New Jersey Alliance for Informed Choice in Vaccination, these regulations will go into effect in September 2008.

Parents believe that this New Jersey requirement is a major encroachment on parents' rights to make medical and other decisions for their own children. Parents also cite the potential dangers of vaccines for some children.

Many of the flu shots and some of the meningitis vaccines contain the mercury-based preservative thimerosal. This is the first time that any state has mandated a vaccine containing mercury since the federal government adopted the policy in 1999 of encouraging vaccines to be mercury-free "as soon as possible."

The Food and Drug Administration advises pregnant women to avoid eating even small amounts of fish with high mercury content. But New Jersey is now demanding that six-month-old babies be given potential mercury vaccines if they spend even one day a week in daycare.

Another toxic substance, formaldehyde, is also present in the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and flu vaccines.

New Jersey allows exemptions from vaccines for medical or religious reasons, but some parents claim that the process of claiming an exemption is made as difficult as possible.

In Prince George's County, Maryland, officials used the heavy hand of government to force vaccinations. Claiming that 2,300 out of 131,000 public school students had not received their hepatitis B and chickenpox vaccines, the state began what the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons called a "heavy-handed vaccine roundup."

State's Attorney Glenn F. Ivey intimidated parents with what he called "legal action." He arranged to have letters sent to all parents who were "out of compliance" demanding that they must attend a court hearing where they would receive a verbal reprimand and their children would be vaccinated, presumably forcibly.

The letter directly threatened parents: "Unexcused absences by your child may subject you to a criminal charge." Few parents knew they could apply for medical or religious exemptions, and many believed they faced jail or heavy fines of $50 a day.

A decent respect for parents' rights over medical treatment imposed on their own children should require that states allow vaccine exemptions for philosophical and conscientious reasons, in addition to medical and religious reasons. A few states do but, unfortunately, not New Jersey or Maryland.

Message To Royson James

Schools fail because we have failed TheStar.com - News - Schools fail because we have failed

January 16, 2008

Royson James

My daughter turns 13 this week. Yes, thanks for the condolences. If there is ever a good time to rear teenage girls, this can't be it, right?

I was thinking about my Avi as lawyer Julian Falconer reported the advisory panel's findings into safety at Toronto schools, a probe conducted following the death of 15-year-old Jordan Manners inside C.W. Jefferys in North York.

How would Avi cope in such a school? Forced sex in the stairwell. Guns. Enough knives to "fill a Home Hardware." Sexual harassment of teachers. Drugs. Gangs. Tolerance of this toxic brew.

Avi wouldn't face this type of environment because YOU as a responsible and concerned parent wouldn't allow it.

Our schools are unhealthy, Falconer said, after looking at the Toronto District School Board, and two schools in particular, in northwest Toronto – the poverty-challenged suburbs where more than nine in 10 students are non-white.

Out of nine non-white students how many are carrying weapons, how many are not able to cope with the curriculum, how many are failing........I will bet the % is minimal because again their parent/parents will not allow it.

Our schools are unhealthy because our society is unhealthy, Falconer said. The school is downstream from the problems our society has spawned. If we send balanced, well-adjusted, engaged, happy children to school, then the classrooms and hallways will be happy, safe places.

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