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Children’s story book released to help children and young people cope with COVID-19
With the help of a fantasy creature, Ario, “My Hero is You, How kids can fight COVID-19!” explains how children can protect themselves, their famil ...
60 Ways to Keep Kids Engaged at Home During the Coronavirus Shutdown
A Mighty Girl's top tips for parents on keeping kids engaged at home while observing social distancing.
The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them
Please read this link to learn about the author and background to these posts. It seems many people are breathing some relief, and I’m not sure why ...
Help for your family during COVID-19
In these unprecedented times, Focus on the Family Canada wants to encourage you to see this time as a gift – an opportunity to learn, play and grow ...
What a Pandemic Can Teach Us About the Value of People
In this short interview, Sanctuary Ambassador John Swinton explains how those of us who are struggling to find our value apart from our work can re ...
Boost your child's progress in school: Understand how your child differs from you
Differences between our learning experience and our child’s learning experience can mean we fail to recognize points of real crisis for our child. ...
A Very Dangerous Place for a Child Is College
“Colleges should do this and colleges should do that, everyone says?” I walked across the front of the auditorium, stopped and faced the two hundre ...
California's first surgeon general: Screen every student for childhood trauma
"One thing that tipped me off was the number of kids being sent to me by schools" Dr. Nadine Burke Harris has an ambitious dream: screen every ...
Afterthoughts: A blog for the classical, Charlotte Mason mama.
An intellectual watering hole for classical, Charlotte Mason homeschooling mamas. We resist systems and instead implement methods -- practices driv ...
Helping kids who procrastinate on school work
What’s really behind all the dilly-dallying and delaying? Is procrastination simply laziness or lack of self-discipline?
By: Catherine Wi ...
Cross-cultural education: advice for parents
This post covers some key advice I give to parents about coping with the stresses associated with cross-cultural education. It’s nice to hear that ...
How you talk to your child changes their brain
A simple change in the way you communicate can boost your child's cognitive development.
By: Sophie Hardach