Posted October 17, 2011
For many parents looking into private school options – the price tags stop the
search in its tracks. To many families, the prospect of covering yearly tuition
ranging from four thousand to sixty-five thousand dollars seems impossible.
Fortunately, the myth that private schools are solely for society's elite is now a rather
antiquated notion. Schools now actively seek a diverse student population, from
ethnicity to socio-economic status, to better reflect the...
Posted September 13, 2011
Our Kids Media publishes the Our Kids Canada's Guide to Private Schools, powers
the school search on OurKids.net and hosts the annual Private
School Expos. This year's Private School Expo will be held in Montreal on
September 18, Toronto on October 15, Oakville on October 23 and in Vancouver on
November 27, 2011....
Posted September 6, 2011
Back-to-school can we overwhelming for both kids and parents.
WhereParentsTalk.com spoke with Jason Carey, a Kids Help Phone counselling manager about how to deal
with issues that arise with the back-to-school season.
What are kids' greatest anxieties when it comes to back-to-school?
Kids who contact us about...
Posted August 30, 2011
Forget January. September is when everything starts anew when you have school aged children!
Deborah Lowther, family health blogger and mother of three, has survived 1065 school mornings and counting. While it’s true all parents dream of smooth and calm morning routines where everyone walks out the door for school dressed, fed, brushed and on time, the
reality is most are in scramble mode, throwing lunches together, searching for permiss...
Posted June 8, 2011
It’s that time of year when parents begin to panic about how they’re going to keep their teens out of trouble during the summer months. Gone may be the days when they
were safely supervised at camp. Now, they want to make money and chill with
their friends on warm summer evenings. The question is: if they haven’t found a
job yet, are they going to now? And how? They may have walked the malls,
...
Posted April 12, 2011
When I was little, I craved escape through art. In an attempt to avoid dealing with my mother’s paranoid schizophrenia, which flared up at regular intervals and wreaked the kind of havoc on our house that made horror movies seem tame, I dove into books and lived in the reality of fiction for hours at a time.
When I was as young as 7 or 8, I spent whole afternoons sitting in one spot, cross-legged on the floor, just reading, the space between my thumb and forefinger...
