Helping families choose private schools and summer camps
Growing up the only boy in a family with two sisters I quickly learned to navigate the unique peculiarities common to the fairer sex. I’m thankful that I had a great role model to impart onto me some priceless lessons about being a father, (of daughters), which I’ll impart to you in this new article entitled: 5 Priceless Lessons My Father Taught Me About Being a Father.
In the last 40 years, extended families have shrunk into nuclear families that have now become real or virtual single parent families. For most teenagers, school, sports, music or other interests replaced the missing tribal bond. But for teenagers who did not make that connection, a mentor outside their regular circle of friends and family may be the best option to help them find their positive power and release their fears.
As Christians prepare to mark the most important day of their faith, a mother reflects on the universal lessons of Easter after her husband lost his teaching job, leaving her to ask “Why?” and “What now?”
Cosette Cutrara helps students overcome their fears and break the barriers to studying abroad.
We all want to achieve our very best, but invariably the question becomes “How can I?” or “Where do I even start?” Read a pack-a-day-smoker-turned-adventurer’s life lesson.
A camp leader once told my tent-mates and I when I was 10 years old, “If you really want to enjoy the outdoors, you need to learn to see.” As camp counsellors, teachers, and social workers we support youth to see, writes Jim McHardy, director of the Kinark Outdoor Centre in Minden, Ontario.
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