By ERIN ANDERSSEN, Toronto Globe and Mail

CALGARY, Alberta - Sherri and Tom Milley were exhausted by the weepy weeknight struggles over math problems and writing assignments with their three school-aged children. They were fed up with rushing home from soccer practice or speed skating only to stand over their kids tossing out answers so they could finish and get to bed.

Joshua Prowse gave up alcohol for a year in 2007. Now he's trying to give up Facebook for Lent -- a mere 40 days without his digital touchstone.
Guess which one he thinks will be harder.
(Hint: Last year, vowing a Facebook ban for his New Year's resolution, he barely lasted a week.)

On the first day of his fourth-year physics class, University of Ottawa professor Denis Rancourt announced to his students that he had already decided their marks: Everybody was getting an A+.