It's been a crazy week in parenting news. From the bad parents who got Easter cancelled to the truly bad parent who forced her 7-year-old on a diet - even people without kids are talking about parents.

But it wasn't just your everyday moms who were making news; celebrity moms also had their fair amount of attention this week. Here is a roundup of the kooky celebrity parenting going on:

Heather Greenwood-Davis pulled her two boys from a year of school to travel the world. They are learning incredible things as they travel the world but today Heather's thoughts are about North America, and how young black men like Trayvon Martin could be killed by walking down the street and how she can break the news to her young boys, that they may be considered a danger just because of what they look like.

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Dara-Lynn Weiss is topping many people's Worst Mom of the Year lists (including mine) and it is only March.

In this month's Vogue body issue, Weiss writes in excruciating detail how she put her 7-year-old on a diet and got her to lose 16 pounds. She took her from medically obese to slim and is now so proud of how she looks - she bought the pre-teen hair extensions as a reward.

Easter egg hunts are a sure signal of spring. But this year the family-friendly Easter egg hunt has become a symbol of something much worse: the helicopter parent.

A helicopter parent is the kind of parent that protects their child from every bump and scrape - emotional and physical. They hover over their kids and make sure that the whole world treats their precious young ones with kid gloves.

Tori is pregnant again. Yes, that Tori. Seems like just a few months ago we were discussing whether or not she had lost the baby weight and now she has announced she's got another bun in the oven.

Hattie is only five months old and it seems from her announcement photo on her website that she is more than a couple months along. Which means Hattie and the new baby could be less than a year apart.

Birth control slip-up? Attention grab? Who knows? And while I don't really have the right to know, I expect Tori and Dean will tell us soon enough. Because that is celebrity motherhood and Tori has re-built her career on being a mother. I don't really understand the current fascination with celebrity motherhood. Celebrities are not any better at this parenting thing than the rest of us. They just have the airbrushing tools to make it look better.

I struggle with math almost daily. I am alternately exasperated and dumbfounded (not as much as my math-genius husband) with my inability to visualize and understand numbers.

I wonder if I had been taught math differently if I would have had a better understanding of it. There were parts to math that I liked - the ability to be absolutely correct - which allude my preferred softer subjects. I partially blame the system for losing me and now I live without the skills to really understand compound interest.

I would have though that in the last three decades someone would have found a way to make math understandable and relatable for kids (even ones without natural numeracy skills).

It's a sad plea. A picture of a sick baby and an appeal for money or something saying that Facebook or another company will donate for every share. There is another Facebook page asking for money to help fund a heart transplant alongside pictures of a little girl hooked up to tubes.

They are all scams and they are becoming more common.

Ontario is getting two birthing centres run by midwives in the coming year. This is after a long and persuasive campaign by midwives and their clients, which included sending in photos and videos of births.

Birthing centres staffed by midwives should offer the kind of care pregnant women dream of - empathetic, safe and knowledgeable. The midwives would give incredible support, follow up and respect everyone's birthing choices. It would have the comfort of home and the medical support of a hospital.

Sounds dreamy.

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Having a breastfeeding issue? Someone giving you the evil eye for nursing in public? Who are you going to call? The Milk Truck!

The blue and white striped van with a breast perched on the top is a mobile art installation that broadcasts the message that breastfeeding is a right, anywhere. Julie Miller, the Pittsburgh artist and driver of the truck, will soon be in Toronto for a performance art exhibition about women and art.

Eight grade three boys lay in sleeping bags, giggling and fidgeting in my basement. It was almost midnight and I started to get annoyed. Finally, they fell asleep, only to wake us with their shouting at 6 am.

And that is a typical sleepover (sleepunder?) birthday party. It smells like sweaty socks, popcorn and restless, sleep-deprived kids.

But for two of those boys it was the first time they had slept away from their parents. When they were being dropped off, the kids were super excited -- the parents, however, were so nervous you would think they were going away for three weeks to the Arctic Circle.

My kids have been to lots of sleepovers and we have hosted lots as well. When a friend sleeps at our house, we make them a treasured part of our family. We become the perfect TV-version of ourselves - nice dinners, kid-friendly movies and lots of kind, gentle conversation. Having another child for a night is a great way to get to know your kids' friends. A child becomes much more multi-faceted when you see them with bedhead, searching for something to eat in the morning.