March 8th is International Women’s Day – a day to celebrate women and their strengths and achievements. The day is also focused on breaking down barriers that continue to exist. The strong, vibrant women of tomorrow are girls today and it’s never too early in a child’s development to think about our own biases (and how to overcome them) and…
It’s been a long and tumultuous two years for us all as we navigated the ins and outs of the pandemic. Our roles as parents expanded greatly to include teacher, coach, playmate and referee with each lockdown and school and extracurricular closure. The strain on parents has been real! With some light at the end of the tunnel and school,…
As children attend childcare and go to school, they’ll get to know peers with a wide variety of abilities, cultures, languages, and backgrounds. It’s totally natural for them to notice similarities and differences and express curiosity, and it’s up to the grownups in their lives to not only model acceptance of diversity, but to frame it as a strength. Here…
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is on September 30th. It is a day that Canadians are to honour the survivors of residential schools and reflect as a Nation on our history. For many Canadians, we have been taught a limited amount about the indigenous culture and experience and educating ourselves is an important first step towards reconciliation. The…
The other day I was literally ‘spinning’, my mind (and heart) racing, in and out of my home office, doing laundry between zoom calls, ensuring my school agers were logged into their online classrooms, thinking about what to make for dinner and if I need to zip out to the grocery store or not, while also thinking about what to…