by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 7, 2011 | Family
A little while ago I started a firestorm when I wrote about planning my daughter’s future–and how we should consider a career choice that would make deciding to be a stay at home mom easier–if that was the preference. It made me think back to my own...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 2, 2010 | Family
It seems like I really waded into some trouble in this post regarding the Roots of Empathy. I compared daycare centres to institutions, and several in the comments took exception to that. I’ve been mulling over whether it’s worth writing a long post on my...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 25, 2010 | Family
Every now and then I read a bizarre article in a magazine that fails to mention the one big elephant in the room. You know the ones: articles that talk about how women make less than men, but they fail to talk about how women take time off to have children. Or...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 10, 2009 | Family
When my children were babies we were living in downtown Toronto. My husband was a resident at the Hospital for Sick Children, and we were surrounded by high powered individuals. All of the other pediatric residents who had kids were female, and they didn’t have...