Gabor Maté, in the Ottawa Citizen, on why we shouldn’t rush into “full-day learning”:

The child’s brain is programmed by nature to attach, to connect — but it will connect to anyone, whoever is around. And who is around for our kids from an early age? Other kids. In the absence of the nurturing adult, our children connect with one another, a process psychologist Gordon Neufeld has termed “peer orientation.” The result is developmental disaster.

For the first time in history, we have the mass phenomenon of many children being more influenced by their peers than by mature, caring adults. The Ontario day care proposals, which in many cases will extend the time children are away from their primary caregivers, raise the risk of accelerating the destructive processes of peer orientation. Full day early schooling is, potentially, a recipe for peer orientation and its attendant negative consequences.

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Pay my loans. Pay my mortgage. Pay my rent. And promise you’ll care for the kids I don’t yet have. Even though I was able to afford a university degree, and I live in Vancouver, I still believe my life is harder than those living in Africa.   

Quite a letter in the Citizen today. 

I personally would also demand that the government provide free, grandé, extra-hot, non-fat lattés for those mornings when it feels hard to get up. 

Wowee.

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Tanya adds: The letter writer claims, “[I] would love the opportunity to have babies…”

Nah…you wouldn’t.  If you think paying off your student loans is a drag, try paying $40 a week for diapers.  You know, those women in poor countries don’t use disposables so they just don’t have that same burden.  (Man alive! This lady’s something special.)

I’m kidding, of course. There is nothing we could do that’d be half as bad as this.

An Afghan law which legalised rape has been sent back to parliament with a clause letting husbands starve their wives if they refuse to have sex.

A high school student writes about her family, in particular, her mom. The whole thing is worth reading. This is the kicker:

It is not Mother’s day. It is not my mom’s birthday, or the anniversary of some important date. Nothing… except a song on a radio, which reminded me what a beautiful woman my mother is, and how lucky I am to have her in my life.

I like this sort of every day hero story.

Better their party than my tax dollars? (with the options ranging from “bad” to “increasingly horrible”.)

Read all about an abortion fundraising party, here.

(h/t The Corner)

In case you feel like modern ads are idiotic and demeaning… Here’s proof positive that they were like that way back when, too! (Wow, does that make me feel better!)

It was a struggle to decide which one I “like” best. #2 is particularly creepy, #4 I absolutely do not understand, #11 I find adorable. But the one pictured above took the prize in the end. It says:

Though she was a tiger, lady, our hero didn’t have to fire a shot to floor her. After one look at his Mr. Leggs slacks, she was ready to have him walk all over her.

Gosh, how could one resist?

Rebecca had this idea that perhaps we could pick a topic, and the ProWomanProLife team would weigh in on that topic.

We decided for the first round to go with something completely uncontroversial: The Birth Control Pill. Not birth control in general, but The Pill.

So here you have our uncensored, unfettered views on the Pill, in alphabetical order. There were no consultations prior to filing with me.

Enjoy.

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