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Beat the Back to School Blues
Coping with the fear of the unknown, meeting new teachers, plus the anxiety of being separated from parents and siblings are all bound to make children nervous when beginning - or returning to school. Specialists...
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Dangling Christmas Bell Craft
It’s fun to look up and find something unexpected, especially around festive holidays like Christmas. Hang this pretty little bell craft from a high ceiling, in a doorway, or in front of a window. This...
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Macaroni and Please: Lesson Eight
When a child is three, simply getting him/her to show interest in food and eat it, even if that means using his/her hands, is good enough. Using utensils seems less important and sometimes a young child’s...
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Summer Fun
Summertime. The kids are out of school and they have the long lazy days of July and August ahead. They could spend their days in front of the TV or they could be using their imaginations to create projects that...
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Making School Trips Safe
I loved school field trips when I was a kid. Even if my class headed out the door to a neighboring park to collect colorful maple leaves for a fall art project, it was a real treat to break free from the...
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Is your child a healthy weight?
You've all heard about it - over one quarter of children and over half of adults in Canada are overweight! Obesity rates among children and adults have increased substantially during the past 25 years, according...
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The Power of Friendship
Spending recesses and lunch hours alone day after day has been utterly painful and disastrous for her self-esteem and happiness. From outright exclusion to cliques and snubs, school has been torture for...
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Imaginary Friends
Halifax Chronicle-Herald (CP) Millions of children have best friends they've never actually met. Some live right next door, while others come from places light-years away. Some fit into the palms...
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When is a child too sick to go to school?
DEAR DR.PAUL: I have a question that seems simple, but I feel is an important one. How do you know when your child is too sick to go to school...
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The end of the road for Ritalin?
For parents of the more than 300,000 Canadian children suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), research is providing new hope that their kids can be helped without the use of powerful...
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School Days: Safety First
The relatively “easy living” of summertime is quickly drawing to a close. Particularly for parents and their school-age children, there is the heightened buzz of “back to school” talks ...
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Building Healthy Kids: One Lunch at a Time
There’s nothing like back to school time for fresh starts. Why not take advantage of the new school year to encourage healthy eating habits...
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Money Smarts
Children are a whole lot smarter today then when I was a child. Television, computers and the internet have allowed our kids to access information we never dreamed of when we were kids. Given our kids&rsquo...
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Talking to Your Kids After School
What did you do at school today? Never in the history of family relations have so few words caused so much turmoil. This simple phrase can cause a child to clam up and a parent to tear her hair out...
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Home Alone
One of the realities of today's society is the pressure for children to stay home alone for a short time after school until a parent returns from work. But according to Canada Safety Council president Emile...
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