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Astrological Overview and Forecast: November 9, 2026
As humanity is called to release old patterns of pride, drama, and self-absorption, the...
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- Written by: Diana Coholic
With art, you have all the colours in the world to share your thoughts,” wrote one youth in the Holistic Arts-based Program at Laurentian University.
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- Written by: Sonia Choquette
A common childhood fear is fear of the dark. Many children become terrified of the dark and can't go to sleep in a darkened room alone, convinced the "bogeyman" or some other night creature is waiting in the shadows to get them. I had a client whose son was terrified...
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- Written by: Dan Mamlok and Sandra Chang-Kredl
Disturbing events related to cyberbullying in recent months and years have raised great concern among parents, youths and educators regarding the everyday lives of children in online spaces
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- Written by: Nikki Martyn and Elena Merenda
Disappointment is a natural human emotion that occurs after a perceived failure.
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- Written by: Elena Merenda and Nikki Martyn
Imagination and play encourage children to think through hypothetical situations and create new worlds
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- Written by: Mark S. Tremblay and Mariana Brussoni
New research from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Health Measures Survey reaffirmed the dramatic decline in Canadian children’s fitness seen over the past 35 years
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- Written by: Luke Zaphir
Constructivism is an educational philosophy that deems experience as the best way to acquire knowledge.
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- Written by: Angela Incollingo Rodriguez
December is considered the most fertile month, a time when there’s the greatest likelihood that children will be conceived. Some experts even pinpoint Dec. 11 as the most fertile day.
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- Written by: Aviva Segal and Sandra Martin-Chang
Parents are often their children’s first literacy teachers. They oversee children signing their names on artwork and read storybooks with their kids.
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- Written by: Alexandra Hansen
If you have kids, chances are you’ve worried about their presence on social media.
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- Written by: Alex Shaw and Hannah Hok
Kids seem to learn about the idea of hypocrisy early in elementary school, new research suggests.
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- Written by: Hetty Roessingh
Perhaps evolution’s most wondrous manifestation is visible in the unparalleled elegance and versatility in the design of the human hand.
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- Written by: Dean Van Leuven
We use anger in disciplining our children because we become upset by what they do, and we then become angry. But when we mix the 'lesson' with our anger, we end up teaching our child that it's okay to respond with anger to things that upset us. When we respond with anger, the child learns anger.
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- Written by: John Izzo, Ph.D.
Children seem able to find wonder in the simplest of things -- an unusual bug on the sidewalk, a puddle that is particularly deep, a small paper airplane. As we age, somehow our capacity for awe and wonder is diminished, just as our skin loses its elasticity. So how do we recapture the experience of wonder?
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- Written by: U. Michigan
Nearly half of parents in a new national poll say they’ve declined a playdate because they didn’t feel comfortable leaving their child in the other parent’s care.
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- Written by: Berthelot Nicolas and Carl Lacharité
Public health agencies are warning parents about using cannabis in the presence of their children. However, parents who use cannabis say that it makes them more empathetic, more patient and more caring towards their young ones
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- Written by: Robyn Spizman
Instead of being the coolest kid in the room, how about being the kindest? Once a child understands the importance of their actions, good deeds, and the joy of helping others, kindness becomes fun and is highly contagious. What’s wonderful about kindness is that it is a skill that can be learned.
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- Written by: Ping Chen and Kathleen Mullan Harris
Depression is a leading cause of disability and disease for people around the world. It often begins during adolescence, especially for females, may continue or recur in adulthood and tends to become a lifetime chronic health condition.
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- Written by: Janine L. Nieroda-Madden
Homework. Whether you’re a fifth-grader or a freshman in college, the mere thought of homework can be overwhelming. And actually doing homework can be quite difficult. But homework doesn’t have to be something a student dreads.
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- Written by: Siobhan O'Flynn
Google recently agreed to pay a US$170 million fine for illegally gathering children’s personal data on YouTube without parental consent, which is a violation under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
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- Written by: Caitlin Mahy
Another school year is upon us, and both parents and children have a lot to remember as people are coming and going on new schedules: make and take lunches, bring an item for show-and-tell, carry cups to the table for dinner when asked.
