You couldn't miss it, the entire rink heard it. A dad yelling, a soaked child crying. His jacket, pants and boots were discarded by the bench.

"You could have been killed!" yelled the dad. "What were you thinking? Do you have a brain in your head?" The dad kept yelling, the kid kept crying and the emotional tone kept heightening. It was an ugly scene, but not that unusual.

It seems that Canadian youngsters have a way with YouTube; two more tweens have hit it big thanks to a combination of musical talent and an Internet boost.

Heather Russell, a 10-year-old from Toronto, was just signed by Simon Cowell. The soulful singer writes her own music and sings with a pedigree beyond her years. Cowell flew her to London to sign a deal after she gained a following on YouTube.

Maria Aragon, also 10, from Winnipeg, got recognition from Lady Gaga herself, after posting a video of her singing Born This Way, on - you guessed it - YouTube. After the video got millions of hits, Aragon was a guest on the Ellen show.

Have you ever tasted breast milk? Would you be more likely to taste it if was swirled with vanilla pods, lemon zest, and frozen into an ice cream? I didn't think so. A London ice cream shop is hoping you will - they are serving their Baby Gaga flavour, made with donated breast milk at approximately $23 a scoop.

I've tasted breast milk.

It's report card time, which means echoes of "Good job!" and "You are so smart!" are echoing through the neighbourhood.

But what if telling your kid they are smart actually produces the inverse result to what you are aiming for? Because that is what the research is saying - that telling kids they are smart and praising them makes them less likely to try new things, less likely to work hard, and more dependent on external motivation. In fact, the praise you are handing out daily seems like the right thing to do but you may be turning your kids into praise junkies.

Don't I know it.

I wonder if any of my kids' teachers have secret blogs where they talk about my kids. I probably wouldn't want to read them because the truth is if they don't think my kids are superstars, I don't really want to know.

Natalie Munroe is a teacher in a Pennsylvania middle school and when she wrote on her blog, she really let it fly. She called her students: "rude, disengaged whiners" and admitted to hating a student. Even though she only used her first name and never mentioned her school, she got found out by her students and the administration. She was promptly suspended with pay and escorted out of the school.

Hours later, the media was at her front door and she has been defending her actions at every turn. Her readership has gone from seven people to tens of thousands. And despite the media attention, she is not backing down from her words, nor her right to blog. 

My annoying puppy seems to like some dogs and not others. Some dogs he will immediately strut over to and play with and others he can't stop barking at, which is a little strange. He is a little guy, but he isn't only attracted to dogs like him, sometimes he completely ignores the other fuzz balls and goes for the big, intimidating dogs and sometimes it's vice -versa. I guess there is something chemical about other dogs that he can just sense.

Toddlers are like that too. Some little kids just get along immediately and others take a while to warm up to each other. But sometimes two kids don't get along at all. There isn't always an obvious reason to us parents; it hardly seems like a two-year-old's personality is formed enough for another toddler to dislike him/her upon meeting, but I guess the little ones know more than we do.

Have you taught your kids about stranger danger? Have you given them a secret password? Have you told them that there is good touch and bad touch?

Well, sorry to break it to you, but those things won't keep your kids safe - in fact, they may do more harm than good.

Our neighbourhood is still feeling the aftershocks of a liked daycare worker being arrested for sexual assault. To help calm the parents, the daycare hosted a community meeting about "how to keep kids safe" with speakers from BOOST, an education centre on the prevention of child abuse.

The Internet breathed a collective sigh of "I told you so" as the news broke that Billy Ray Cyrus has some regrets about the way Miley was brought up.

In a long and seemingly honest interview with GQ Magazine, Billy Ray's achy breaky heart is filled with regrets: regrets about Hannah Montana, regrets about his marriage and regrets about being a friend instead of a parent.

It almost made me feel bad for him.

Bethenny Frankel, parenting expert, thinks breastfeeding should only be done in private unless you are Pamela Anderson and everyone has seen your breasts anyways, so it doesn't matter.

And since Rachel Ray (another noted parenting expert) agrees, everyone should go cover up now.

Bethenny Frankel isn't really a parenting expert, but she plays one on TV. Well, she just plays herself on TV - a neurotic, narcissistic, skinny, reality TV star who has turned her journey from being a Real Housewife to new mom into a hit and a brand. The mother of baby Brynn has been open about her breastfeeding struggle and her recent comments on the Rachey Ray Show about her distaste for breastfeeding in public has started online moms talking.

I sit here, in front of the computer, for hours. I am writing, I am checking Twitter, I am pondering the large social issues (such as Lady Gaga's tortured relationship with Madonna), and sometimes I play FreeRice.

The Internet and social media are forces for good in my life, splintered, distracted forces, but positive ones nonetheless. But then I think about social media and my kids and I get all worried. Texting, Facebook, the Internet are all threats to their ability to concentrate, to maintain healthy relationships, and to their safety. It is so worrisome. Whenever the topic comes up amongst parents (which is often), you can see the anxiety level start to swell. Which is why it was such a relief to hear about how the Internet is a positive force in the life of today's family.