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June 2012 Kids First Letter to Ontario Minister of Education responding to the “consultation” process.

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 28, 2012June 2, 2020in Misc.

Kids First Letter to Ontario Minister of Education responding to the “consultation” process. June 28, 2012. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - letter (PDF): Letter to Ontario Minister of Education

Kids First press release: Parents get lip service in Ontario daycare consultation

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 28, 2012June 2, 2020in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Power imbalance between parents & state

Kids First press release: Parents get lip service in Ontario daycare consultation June 28, 2012. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - press release (PDF): Parents get lip service in Ontario daycare consultation—Ontario summertime daycare consultation excludes parents

Ontario Ministry of Education Press Release

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 27, 2012June 2, 2020in All-day kindergarten/daycare/preschool/ELCC, Misc.

June 27, 2012. Ontario Government - press release (web): Making Child Care Work for Families: McGuinty Government Working with Partners to Modernize Child Care

Discussion Paper “Modernizing Child Care”

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 26, 2012June 2, 2020in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby

Discussion Paper “Modernizing Child Care” = put more daycare centres in schools June 26, 2012. Ontario Ministry of Education - discussion paper (PDF): "Modernizing Child Care in Ontario"

June 2012: British Ex-PM’s wife attacks mothers working outside GDP and response

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 21, 2012June 16, 2020in Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

June 20, 2012. The Telegraph - (web): British Ex-PM’s wife attacks mothers working outside GDP Response:Jun 21, 2012. Mercatornet - (web): "Cherie Blair to full-time mums: “Get to work”"

Kids First Government Submissions pre-2012

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 9, 2012July 9, 2020in Misc.

Kids First Government Submissions June 2012: Kids First Letter to Ontario Minister of Education responding to the "consultation" process Apr 2011: Response to the draft document "Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants: Recommendations from Birth to Six Months" Oct 2010: Input…

More bad news for Sweden's mothers & economy:

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon May 12, 2012May 13, 2020in Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Sweden

May 2012: British Medical Journal article - "Disability pension among young women in Sweden, with special emphasis on family structure: a dynamic cohort study" Finding: "Parenthood contributed to an increased risk of going on Disability Pension among young women."

Mar 2012: Queen’s University economists also find harm to children’s outcomes from Quebec daycare (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 1, 2012June 10, 2020in Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Quebec

Mar 2012: Queen’s University economists also find harm to children’s outcomes from Quebec daycare (broken link) /Baker-Gruber-Milligan findings for Quebec continue

“Gender equity” style parenting resulted in more mental health problems for kids

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 1, 2012May 13, 2020in Mental/Emotional Health, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Sweden

March 2012: Study published in International Journal for Equity in Health of "gender equity" parenting (both parents spending equal amounts of time at jobs and doing child care) in Sweden finds children have more mental health problems with gender equal…

Data Mining Canadian Kids (Broken Link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 1, 2012May 13, 2020in Misc., Privacy, data collection, Popdata BC, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

A document authored by Dr Clyde Hertzman of HELP, Canada's leading guru pushing privacy-violating data mining and institutional child care, outlines "5 Year Plan". Here is the 2009 document prepared by the Monitoring Committee of the Early Childhood Learning Knowledge…

Feb 2012: Swedish family goes into political exile for homeschooling

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 1, 2012June 16, 2020in Sweden

Mar 1, 2012. mynewsdesk - (web): "Swedish home education leader goes into political exile: ”The dangers for the family were too great.”"

Ottawa Citizen Article: Comments from Neufeld

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon February 12, 2012May 13, 2020in Mental/Emotional Health, Misc., Play

Feb 2012: Ottawa Citizen article "All work and no play . . . Is not good for the developing brain, says psychologist Dr. Gordon Neufeld." Neufeld says, "The only resistance I get is from policy-makers."

Dad Arrested

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon February 1, 2012May 16, 2020in Child Protection Services, Misc., Power imbalance between parents & state

Feb 2012, Huffington Post article: Dad arrested and strip searched because 4 year old drew a picture of a gun. Ontario Premier approves and school officials say they "co-parent"

Norway bullying Indian parents by taking away their children

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 23, 2012June 16, 2020in Breastfeeding, Power imbalance between parents & state

Norway bullying Indian parents by taking away their children… for breastfeeding responsively, co-sleeping, and teaching their children to eat with their hand! Read more:23 January 2012. Mail Online - (web): "Indian couple have children taken away by Norwegian social workers…

Swedish politician suggests home learners be apprehended by state

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 18, 2012June 16, 2020in Power imbalance between parents & state, Sweden

Jan 18, 2012. Charisma News - (web): "Home-schooling Families May Lose Child Custody in Sweden"