8. Parenting - Brigitte Pellerin

06 Sep 2024 3 min read

A few helpful pointers for adults who’ve never met a teenager

One of the best aspects of homeschooling, other than freedom and flexibility to explore what interests your kids and the opportunity to take breaks when it’s nice outside or go on trips

16 Aug 2024 2 min read

Everyone supports gender-affirming care

Any time someone is dumb enough to get into an argument with me about gender-affirming care it ends in stunned silence when I point out that if we are to ban it we’

09 Aug 2024 1 min read

Play on

In my Ottawa Citizen column this week I tee up the Canadian Ultimate Championships, which start Sunday in Ottawa. It’s giving me a great excuse to talk your ears off about why

15 Mar 2024 2 min read

La graduation et le coût d'une vie

For the Ottawa Citizen this week I wrote about making commencement ceremonies more inclusive and you can read that column here. Mais là j'ai besoin de péter une coche. Jeudi la

30 Jan 2024 5 min read

Go ahead, break something

OK, so I snorted pretty hard when I saw the headline on that story. Telling kids to go ahead and break an arm is not my idea of parenting, and I sure was