Our Kids provides the education, camp, and parenting headlines you should know.
- The Our Kids Camp Locator App for all Apple mobile products is now live! Download yours for free today!
- Health Canada will soon require food allergens, gluten sources, and sulphites to be identified on pre-packaged food labels.
- Rev. Brent Hawkes, one of Canada’s leading gay rights activists, is urging New Brunswick schools to adopt Gay-Straight Alliances.
- To a New Jersey school inspectors, the latest safety hazard on the playground isn’t bullies or tall jungle-gyms, it’s trees.
- Debates are raging in Canada as a possible federal election approaches – should Canada have a national childcare policy?
- A new study has found that in siblings who care for their elderly parents, animosity frequently arises from disagreement over who’s doing their fair share.
- Another study analyzing parent-child “sex talks” advises parents to spread out conversations, use anatomically correct terms, and not to lie or assume.
- The Nova Scotia government is seeking a lease for the only all-girls public school in the province, Holy Angels High School.
- The Globe and Mail says Canadian college and university students need an education…in debt repayment.
- Hockey Canada is encouraging new demographics of kids to pick up hockey, including new immigrants and those of aboriginal ancestry, to boost declining registration.
- The YMCA Camp Mason in New Jersey is turning 111 years old.
- Saturday Night Live star Molly Shannon has written a children’s book.
- Experts say Canadian kids should be limited to only two hours of screen time per day.
- A new summer camp, Camp Sib, has an interesting mission: to reunite long-lost siblings separated by foster homes.
