Aug
12
2014

RECALL: Joe Boxer 3-Piece Boys' PJ Sets

Flammability Hazard

RECALL: Joe Boxer 3-Piece Boys' PJ Sets

Health Canada has recalled Boys' Joe Boxer 3-Piece 'Eat Sleep Play' T-shirt and shorts PJ sets sold at Sears with the codes 26114 and 56027.

While no incidents were reported, the PJ sets did not meet Canadian legal flammability requirements for children's sleepwear.

Customers are advised to stop using the sleepwear and return sets to Sears for a refund (with or without receipt or Sears Card statement).

For further information, customers may contact Sears at 1-800-267-3277.

From January, 2014 to July, 2014, approximately 1,800 of the sleep sets were sold in Canada.

 
Aug
12
2014

The Real Meaning Behind 'Love You Forever' Will Haunt You

The inspiration for this famous book is both deeply personal and poignant.

The Real Meaning Behind 'Love You Forever' Will Haunt You

He's one of Canada's most beloved and quirky children's book authors. Yet Robert Munsch's book, Love You Forever, has long drawn mixed reactions from parents, many of whom feel the depiction of a mother's undying love for her child is stifling and downright creepy: 

I'll love you forever / I'll like you for always / as long as I'm living / my baby you'll be. 

This is the nightly lullaby a mom sings to her son through the ages—from his earliest days as a baby through to his teenage years. At one point she even *eek* crawls into his room to sing her grown man to sleep. (Bet the Freudians would have a field day with that one.)
Indeed, Love You is a much more sobering read, lacking the playfulness of Munsch's other stories, such as Mortimer, The Paperback Princess, and Smelly Socks
 
But according to an article Pop Sugar, the inspiration for the song (and book) was deeply personal and poignant.

"I made that up after my wife and I had two babies born dead," wrote Munsch on his website. "The song was my song to my dead babies. For a long time I had it in my head and I couldn't even sing it because every time I tried to sing it I cried. It was very strange having a song in my head that I couldn't sing."

Eventually a haunting song grew into an equally haunting story about a mother's enduring love for her baby. Love You is a heartbreaking ode to babies who will never be rocked, yet who are deeply loved nonetheless.
 
It is also a moving account of the cycle of life, and how the tables turn when a parent ages and needs to be cared for by a child.
 
Are you a Munsch fan? What do you think of this story?
 
 

 
This new children's book apparently filled a gap in the market.
 

 

Aug
11
2014

Why This Mom Says You Should Have Sex—Every Single Day

It's a radical concept...or is it?

Why This Mom Says You Should Have Sex—Every Single Day

Much ado is being made of a Huffington Post article in which a mom suggests that we should all have sex with our partners every single day. It's a radical concept, or is it?

Coming on the back of the husband who catalogued all of his wife's various 'excuses' and reasons not to have sex with him via an Excel spreadsheet, it's no wonder Meg Conley's words have creating waves in the media.

Apparently as Conley was doing the dishes she had an epiphany that it had been eight days since she last had intercourse with her husband.

The proverbial light bulb went off, and Conley made it her mission to have sex not only regularly but daily. But are her reasons for urging all moms to follow suit largely misguided?
 
It's this whole idea of a woman having something the man wants, and the woman performing sex as if it's some kind of charitable act rather than a mutual expression of desire and love: 

"And my goodness, let the poor man see you naked. It is astounding what a good man will do for a good woman that has made him feel loved. After a few weeks of meals and make outs, you will sit back and wonder why you didn't insist on having sex every night sooner. Talk about a small investment and big returns."

Though I think a woman should have sex regularly—on her own terms—Conley does well to remind us of the inherent value in a good romp with our partners: 

"We will slog through our children's Algebra homework, do Zumba in public and pluck the hair from our body ONE PIECE AT A TIME," wrote Conley. "But tell a girl to have sex every night and she looks at you like you are crazy, An orgasm? Every night? What do I look like? A Nymphomaniacal Super Woman? Where is the logic in that?"

What do you think of Conley's case for daily sex?