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Teaching Your Child to Cook Healthy Meals at Any Age

Natacha V. Beim | Posted 04.01.2013 | Canada Alberta
Read More: Daycare, Education, Children, Early Childhood Education, Childcare, Early Learning, Pre Kindergarten, Kindergarten, Parenting, Canada Alberta News
Natacha V. Beim

Having your child prepare a healthy meal for the family seems like an unattainable dream for most parents. However, if you instil the habit of cooking in your child at an early age, you are providing them with the skills they need to live a healthy life, and having fun while doing it.

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People Don't Want a Real Answer

Lori Gard | Posted 05.01.2013 | Canada Living
Read More: Teaching Kindergarten, Education, Parenting, Teaching, Parenting Advice, Mothering Advice, Mothering, Kindergarten, Canada Living News
Lori Gard

In general, people don't really want to know the real answer to tough questions about life.

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Dispatches From Down East: Why I Love Being a Kindergarten Teacher

Lori Gard | Posted 11.15.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: Elementary School, Teaching, Prince Edward Island, Students, Kindergarten, Learn Kindergarten, Kindergarten Teacher, Teach Kindergarten, Class Kindergarten, Canada Living News
Lori Gard

If anyone had told me three years ago I would be teaching kindergarten, I would have politely laughed at them. If anyone had told me one of my students would be my charming daughter, I would have (politely) laughed at them and then high-tailed it for the next bus out of town. The truth is, I love it.

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Your Kid's First Day Of School: What New Parents Need To Know

Andrea Traynor | Posted 10.22.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: Kid's First Day of School, Preschool, Back to School Items, Junior Kindergarten, Back to School Shopping, School, Back to School Gear, Parenting Advice, First Day of Schooll, Kindergarten, Back to School, Back to School Prep, Canada Living News
Andrea Traynor

It's August, so inevitably just about everything, at every turn, is back to school-related. But some of us aren't sending our kids back to school -- we're sending them off to school for the first time. My first-born -- my baby boy who's actually four-years-old and no longer resembles a baby in any way except in my mind -- starts junior kindergarten in less than a month. We are so not ready.

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What if Video Games Are Actually Good for our Kids?

Robert Whent | Posted 05.16.2012 | Canada
Read More: Playstation, Cognitive, Education, Add, Wii, Learning Disabilities, Adhd, Babies, Video Games, Xbox, Nintendo, Kindergarten, Canada News
Robert Whent

I wasn't a particularly good student when I was a kid. In grade school, I had a lot of problems with math, and to a lesser extent reading and writing. It didn't matter how much I tried, I just couldn't get it. I couldn't seem to grasp concepts that most of my friends seemed to understand easily.

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