How Volunteering Helped My Kids Be Less Entitled

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 3, 2016 | Family

What do you do when you realize you’ve raised an entitled son or daughter? Parenting doesn’t always go how we planned. So what do you do when you realize that you’ve raised a kid who has a serious attitude problem, without making them feel attacked?...

So Smart We’re Stupid

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 18, 2011 | Family

Every Friday my syndicated column appears in a bunch of newspapers in southeastern Ontario. Here’s this week’s, on the harm we may be doing by praising kids’ innate abilities rather than praising effort. There’s an awesome scene during the...

Occupy Whiners

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 12, 2011 | Uncategorized

Every Thursday and Friday my syndicated column appears in a bunch of newspapers in southeastern Ontario. Here’s this week’s! The Occupy Wall Street protesters are starting to really get to me. There they are, protesting corporations, while they film the...

A Parent’s Most Basic Responsbility is to Feed Their Kids

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 24, 2011 | Family

Smaller government may sound heartless, but I believe government that gets too big can be dangerous, too. There’s been a lot of talk over my post last week criticizing the expanded lunch program Michelle Obama is trying to put in place that would feed two...

Entitled to My Entitlements

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 16, 2010 | Family

In 2006, David Dingwall, a former Public Works Minister for the Liberal government of Canada, resigned in disgrace after a scandal from running the Royal Canadian Mint. When asked about his extraordinarily generous severance package in a House of Commons Committee, he...