A toddler pooped in the shower. That's not big news.

Most parents have lived through a bathtub incident such as this and the clean up is often nasty and at best, forgotten. But instead of getting out the rubber gloves and moving on, this father made a sign for his toddler that read: "I pooped in the shower and daddy had to clean it up. I hearby sign this as permission to use as in my yearbook senior year. Signed, Mia [last name blacked out by HuffPo]." He hung it around her neck and took a photo, including her face and then posted it on Reddit.

And it has gone viral.

As a child, my mother, sister and I would sit and watch One Day At A Time, a sitcom about a family that looked a lot like ours (but didn't act like ours!). The Thorn Birds was also a major event on par with a family occasion that got the three of us sitting on the couch together, glued to the TV.

Does that happen anymore?

What would most moms save in a fire?

1. Engagement ring
2. Smartphone
3. Passports

If you guessed engagement ring, you would be wrong. According to a new study entitled: "The Truth About Moms" by McCann Central almost 50% of women would save their smartphone over their other possessions listed. I do love my Blackberry, but I'm not sure I would sacrifice my antique ring that I adore.

The international study also highlighted some interesting facts about how mothers use technology worldwide.

In a few short hours my three kids will be out on summer break and I will be their chauffeur, camp counsellor, teacher, computer tech, playmate and cook.

I may also be a little teary on the schoolyard - a potent mixture of anxiety, sadness and fear of the long days ahead.

Don't get me wrong, I love my kids. I like hanging out with them. And there are parts of summer that I enjoy like being released from the dreary routine of packing lunches, school drop-offs and stress.

One of the hardest things about having kids is how it changes all the relationships around you: the strain it puts on your marriage; the perceived slights from family members; the loss of old friends - especially ones without kids.

It's not easy maintaining friendships with people when there are great differences to your lives - you are sleep-deprived and dealing with sore nipples and they are wondering which shoes to buy, or what to do about a troublesome boyfriend. Even when the differences aren't so dramatic, it's just that your life has taken a 180 and their lives haven't.

Or you couldn't get to the phone in time because you are dealing with a poo-up-the-back problem.

Disney announced that they will be banning junk food commercials on their stations on shows that are aimed at children. Which means that food advertised promoted on stations such as DisneyXD and Playhouse Disney, as well as Saturday morning cartoons on ABC will have to comply with Disney's nurtitional standards.

Is this a big deal?

I hope that I am raising mama's boys. Not just because I have trouble letting go (which I do) but because I think boys that have good relationships with their mothers are nicer men.

But I don't mean mama's boys like you may be thinking. Not wussy, enmeshed wimps - which is how popular culture portrays mamas' boys, even though we mothers of boys know better.

Would you know the signs if your child was depressed?

As a parent, I think I would. But then I hear stories from other parents about how they thought the isolation was temporary or they thought it was just a stage. But it wasn't. 

Despite how connected our kids are, they still have the age-old feelings of being all alone in the world. They need sounding boards to discuss what they are going through. And usually, their parents are not the ones they want to talk to and their friends don't always make things better.

But if you knew your child needed help, would you be embarrassed if they saw a therapist? Would you be embarrassed if you knew they called Kids Help Phone?

I've been thinking about an article about powerful thigns to say to your kids that I read in the Toronto Star. It refers to a new parenting book (one of a million or so recently) and I just sort of scanned it looking for a blog post idea. But I found that the message resonated with me.

Sometimes the advice we come across, even if it is great advice, just doesn't stick. Maybe it isn't what we need to hear at the moment or maybe it is what we want to hear and we just can't confront it.

But I have been thinking lately about the idea of 'love being enough'.

My son lost his phone. Nothing cuts to the heart of a tween's psyche more than losing his phone which tethers him to his social life.

Nothing except also losing his iPod which he also did, the week before he lost his phone.