Parenting means making difficult decisions on behalf of your children, Chris Hunt shares I’m a reasonably well-adjusted adult male. Thus, like most reasonably well-adjusted adult males, I tend to keep my displays of openly weeping in public to the bare […]
Chris Hunt
Tough choices
Parenting means making difficult decisions on behalf of your children, Chris Hunt shares I’m a reasonably well-adjusted adult male. Thus, like most reasonably well-adjusted adult males, I tend to keep my displays of openly weeping in public to the bare […]
One of everything
For Ottawa dad Chris Hunt, the magic of Christmases past and present provide fuel for the soul It was a mere minute past midnight and I was cowering in a stairwell. Outside, the only thing colder than the black night […]
From our anniversary edition: Beyond the attachment parenting controversy
Editor’s note: Even for the busiest of us, it’s important to take pause and evaluate how we’ve changed and grown. Flipping through the editions from the last 10 years – a veritable trip down memory lane! – it’s only fitting that […]
First-day fears
Columnist Chris Hunt spent his first day of kindergarten pining for his mom. Years later, he wonders if the same was in store for his toddler son I remember sitting in my first circle group on my first day of […]
Trust me
His son’s summer adventures bring back memories of growing up for columnist Chris Hunt The fear was there. My son laughed as he ran along his grandparent’s dock on the Ottawa River, but I knew what would happen once he […]
Super Mom
When Chris Hunt’s son needed help, Riley’s mother did what all good parents do – she put his needs first I didn’t see it. Truth be told, I thought everything was fine. But as my son sadly put his head […]
Universal debt
Like his father before him, Chris Hunt gladly makes sacrifices for his son It was the black hours of the early morning and I was shivering. Beside me, wrapped warmly in the blankets he’d ripped from me only moments before, […]
A promise is a promise
Less work, more play: columnist Chris Hunt plans to put parenting first in 2019 I can honestly say I’ve never made a New Year’s resolution in my life. Well, not any I planned to keep. Sure, I’ve heralded many a […]
Meet the master
A meeting with his son’s teacher showed our columnist who was (really) the boss Over the past six years, my son Riley has evolved into a master manipulator. An expert at getting what he wants, he shrewdly employs pleas, […]