8. Parenting

The Apple of my pronouns

This morning my almost-17-year-old came downstairs, iPhone in hand and glee in heart, to show me that she’d added pronouns to my contact info. It turns out that after a long time

Gender and kids

My very good friend called this morning in relation to my recent Pride column and asked how I would solve the problem of a young kid who says they feel they’re a

Get lost with your basics

Stephen Lecce, who is inexplicably Ontario’s minister of education, is currently fronting another one of those asinine “common sense” education reforms aimed at getting back to basics, because this government doesn’t

Frisbees in suburbia

You travel enough along the 401 in Ontario and you start to see patterns. For instance, you notice the clothes worn by people who patronize the OnRoute rest stops along the way all

Ode to a brave toddler

People often ask how they could become a ninja like me.  That’s easy, I say. You could train like a maniac for 20 years. Or you could carry a cooler up the