Who gets to decide when a 14-year-old wants to change gender? The child, the hospital, ...
A B.C. case raises difficult questions about parental rights and about how young is too young to make medical decisions. The result is a messy ethical and legal tangle
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Local News Screens eating your kids? Montrealer's KoloKidz is a new box of tricks
Fearing for his young daughter, Louis McKenzie launched the monthly activity box featuring crafts, games and toys for children aged 3 to 6. -
Parents warned that Cake app isn't for kids due to high sexual content
The Canadian Centre for Child Protection says within 12 hours of creating an account, it received four unsolicited messages with sexual content, including a sexually explicit video from a male user. -
Family & Child Home-schooling centre is a textbook case of community and passion
These kids are like any others you'd come across on a Friday afternoon, except on one bureaucratic level, many of them are invisible. -
Life Go fish and other March Break strategies
Here are several things to do outside the house and a few for rainy, snowy, I’m-not-going-anywhere days during the school holiday from March 3 to 11. -
Family & Child Fun stuff to do over the holidays, with kids or not
There are hundreds of things to do during the Christmas break. Pick five or six, and school will be back in session before you know it. -
Columnists Celine Cooper: On Nov. 5, make voting a family excursion
The earlier children are taught about being informed and participating, the more likely they are to become lifelong voters. -
Opinion Opinion: The excesses of Halloween provide a welcome respite
We spend the most of the year engaged in overly cautious parenting. Parents and kids need a topsy-turvy break now more than ever. -
Opinion Celine Cooper: I have two things to say to my kids' teachers
But first, a confession: I'm the mom who forgets to check the agendas every night.
Brazil's gay couples exchange vows in collective ceremony
About 40 same-sex couples got married in downtown Sao Paulo on Saturday, tying the knot partly out of fear that the new administration of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro could restrict same-sex marriage.
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Relationships Monogamy was failing me, so was polyamory the answer?
Britany Robinson: For so long, I'd been failing to find honesty in others. But perhaps that was a result of my failure to be honest with myself -
Relationships Meet the jet set dating elite — the super-rich who don’t see a few oceans ...
Jake had travelled from New York to meet London-based Anna, to whom he was introduced by a matchmaking service that helps high-net-worth individuals find love
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Opinion Opinion: Schools shouldn't eliminate Mother's Day crafts
Mother’s Day always seemed to bring out the best in my son’s elementary school teachers, who guided students in crafting thoughtful tributes. -
Music From musical star to medical student: Karin Kei Nagano takes her cue from her parents
The mantra in the Nagano household – collaboration, not competition – has guided 18-year-old Karin Kei Nagano far in her musical pursuits. Now she faces an embarrassment of choices: follow the road to musical stardom as her parents did or strike out on her own, possibly in medicine. Bill Brownstein takes stock of her potential. -
Columnists Opinion: Parents desperate to find a Hatchimal for Christmas should chill out
Just as toy companies are always searching for the next craze, finding the right toy for your child is something of a crapshoot. -
Columnists Celine Cooper: The world needs the creative energy of 'makers,' young and old
Sometimes, art is urgently needed, as a force for healing, beauty and hope. I think we're living through one of those moments. -
Editorials Editorial: Helping Quebec families find balance
A new study says half of Quebec families feel rushed juggling work and home life. Appropriate policies and programs can help. -
Parenting Opinion: Captain Fantastic, Bad Moms and summer's lessons for parents
Today’s two parenting extremes — the helicopter parent and the free-range parent — are not so different from one another. -
World Opinion: As the world becomes a battle zone, our children are watching
There is an adage that children are sponges. Has anyone taken time to see how they are reacting in these trying times? -
Parenting Opinion: A hero-dad, on an epic odyssey
Be assured, the story I am telling has nothing to do with tragedy. Rather, it is closest to epic, the genre that sings tales about heroes who grow into their courage and nobility as they meet various challenges along the way. Fatherhood has been an odyssey of sorts for Eric, but he has grown into the best possible Dad for our challenging, adorable son.
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Parenting Opinion: As I get older, I reflect on the true 'reason for the season'
There are, in fact, two versions of this holiday. There is the secular Christmas complete with reindeer, elves, and maxed-out credit cards. Then there is the spiritual Christmas, which sadly seems to have fallen by the wayside in many families. -
Parenting Opinion: Santa Claus and the importance of hope
I realized how important it is for children to believe in something that represents hope when my own daughter was diagnosed with a devastating illness. I believe it's crucial that we encourage children to believe in someone like Santa Claus. -
Parenting Opinion: Popular Christmas plants aren't benign, but there are bigger seasonal hazards for children and ...
Parents should be more worried about small toys, dice from games, marbles and tiny batteries that can all be choking hazards for a small child. Batteries are especially dangerous, because they contain sodium or potassium hydroxide, which can damage the tissue of the esophagus when swallowed. -
Energy Opinion: Do we have the courage to tell our children the truth about climate change?
I feel a profound need to lie to my children – the ones in my house and the ones in my classroom. I haven't the guts to contradict the central premise of my culture, and tell all my children that the world is not their oyster, that they must not do as I have done. That in fact, not only is the oyster's shell disintegrating because of the acidification of our oceans, but my children cannot have the lifestyle I have had. -
Quebec Opinion: Addressing the deficit in care for special-needs children
A public-private partnership, where governments partner with private organizations to integrate resources, pare down bureaucracy and optimize care, would go a long way toward providing badly needed services to special-needs children in Quebec. -
Local News Quebec students tops in math, lag in science
Quebec students scored below the Canadian average in science and reading in the latest national assessment of Grade 8 students. -
Parenting Tarah Schwartz's adoption story: Motherhood was worth the wait
It’s a long journey from choosing the path of international adoption to becoming a family. One Montrealer recounts the difficulties she and her husband faced before a little boy transformed their lives.