When a child complains of boredom, it’s so easy to plop them in front of the TV or shut them up with a video game. The problem is, when the show is over or the game is done, they’re bored again. So what do you do? Here is a Top 10 list to help fight the summertime boredom blues.
Family Day is a relatively new (at least to the Province of Ontario) but much-needed holiday to break up the monotony of winter. It’s also a great time to reconnect with your family and loved ones and re-establish some family traditions. Along with other great Family Day activities like cooking as a family and enjoying the outdoors, books are a great way of exploring how your family feels about their own values and dynamics or just be the cause for some great fun! Here are some of my Family Day recommendations:
Some people wait all year for Christmas, a birthday, summer vacation. But for Margaret Eaton, President of ABC Life Literacy Canada, every year is filled with anticipation for a different day. Today, actually. Family Literacy Day. It’s easy to assume that only children need to practice their literacy skills, and parents are there to simply [...]
January 27 is Family Literacy Day®, a chance to celebrate parents and children leaning and reading together for the day and for life. This is a movement I can get behind and would encourage all parents to unplug the electronics and set aside at least 15 minutes to foster reading. This year ABC Life Literacy for Canada is encouraging Play for Literacy using card games, board games and even invented games as a way of encouraging family learning. While I am crazy about any new ways of sparking the learning bug I still love the old fashioned notion of snuggling up with your favourite book and child and reading aloud.
After over two years, Howard Eaton’s Brain School: Stories of Children With Learning Disabilities and Attention Disorders Who Changed Their Lives by Improving Their Cognitive Functioning is now in the hands of the public! Parents at Eaton Arrowsmith School sat down this past Monday Nov 22nd to listen to Howard Eaton, director of Eaton Arrowsmith School Vancouver and Victoria, read excerpts from his book and to pick up their copies. At times it was difficult for Howard to read the chapters without becoming emotional, as he reflected on the life changes that the students enrolled at Eaton Arrowsmith School have made by strengthening their cognitive capacities for learning…in essence, by rewiring their brains, thus enabling them to transition back to typical public and private schools with no or far reduced need for academic or social support.
[Malkin Dare is the President of the Society for Quality Education.] Boys used to do as well as (or better than) girls in school, but now they’re doing much worse, as reported in the recent Globe and Mail newspaper series “Failing boys and the powder keg of politics“. The series advanced a number of theories to [...]
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