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ET Canada‘s Rick Campanelli and his main man Noah share their triumphant heroes.
Sloan‘s Andrew Scott and actress Fiona Highet proudly hold up their family masterpieces.
If you have kids who are empowered to care, get them in on our dare! It’s not too late to join our team to help raise raise money to support families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa. Like our Facebook page to keep up with our crafty community throughout January!
Our favourite rockstar dads have a new album out
Did you know that Sloan have been writing and performing music together for 20 years? We’re pretty excited to see what the new album sounds like. And maybe go check them out on tour. Are you planning on seeing Jay, Chris, Pat and Andrew live this time around? If you’re looking for your kid’s first rock concert, this would be a good one.
Photo by Dave Levitt via Sloanmusic.com
Fiona Highet is working on a play in Winnipeg while her family’s in Toronto
The goodbye was torture. Next time I’ll leave under cover of night. The day was all about waiting – straight out of The Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss – we spent the day in the waiting place.
I was weepy all day, as was my daughter. Poor thing: a cold and a few bad sleeps compounded to make her especially tender and she spent the day in and out of tears, hugging me and demanding to be told “one good reason” why she couldn’t come with me to Winnipeg. She ran after the taxi blowing kisses and I cried all the way out to the airport.
My darling son, whose warm strong body and easy laugh I cannot imagine six weeks without, gave me a hug and returned to playing with his cousin. When I called out a final goodbye, he sent back a sing-song “ok goodnight”. I’m sure he’ll miss me sometime…
Fiona Highet is working on a play in Winnipeg while her family’s in Toronto
Mothers go to work. So what. It’s 2011. Big deal. Kids survive – more than that, they thrive on having mothers with rich lives, they develop confidence and responsibility and learn a myriad of valuable lessons by watching their parents grapple with the stresses, pressures, joys and triumphs of their working lives. As a bonus, money is made. Beyblades and apps can be purchased.
What we’re reading on the blogs today:
Can’t get your kids to eat brussels sprouts? Vered Guttman at Slate was convinced she could find a recipe to make her boys, who aside from sprouts eat everything, love the world’s most hated vegetable. The brussels sprout and split pea soup sounds pretty good.
Shari Roan at the L.A. Times says that kids are watching too much TV. No more than two hours of screen time a day, pediatricians say.
Need something to tide you over before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2? Check out this great art inspired by Part 1 on Flavorwire.
And have you found that your parents’ parenting style made you run in the other direction? Felisa Rogers at Salon says her hippie mom turned her into a consumer. Whereas her mom was “obsessed with composting,” Rogers says, “As far as my parents are concerned, I might as well be Alex P. Keaton.” Totally reminds us of You Know You’re an Adult Child of Hippies When…
Except they didn’t. They tore themselves away from social media and otherwise went about their day-to-day lives. (What constitutes day-to-day for Lady Gaga, we haven’t the foggiest.)
So Alicia Keys called up some celebri-pals with substantial Twitter followings and asked them to stop Facebooking and tweeting on World AIDS Day. They’ll resume their microblogging ways once the Buy Life campaign hits $1,000,000, which then goes to Keys’ Keep a Child Alive charity.
We actually think Alicia Keys is pretty great. She’s ridiculously talented, not some flash-in-the-pan one-hit-wonder-type, and we sincerely believe she wants to do all she can to support families dealing with HIV and AIDS. She’s also smart; as New York Times columnist Amy Wallace wrote, “(Keys) knows that she’s not alone in thinking that America increasingly treats its celebrities like commodities.”
