Growing Local Roots: How Natural Health Retailers Are Helping School & Youth Gardens Thrive
Growing Local Roots: How Natural Health Retailers Are Helping School & Youth Gardens Thrive What do a school principal, a youth centre, and two passionate business owners have in common? A belief that real change starts in the garden. Across Canada, school and youth garden programs supported by local natural health retailers are planting the seeds […]
How to Get Kids to Drink More Water
How to Get Kids to Drink More Water this Summer Since the beginning of time, and on a planet with 71% of its surface covered in it, parents have been trying to get their kids to drink more water. Harvard University reports that about 54.5% of adolescents don’t get enough daily H2O to attain healthy levels […]
Tips for Eating Healthy on Vacation
Tips for Eating Healthy on Family Vacation this Summer Summer break is upon us here in Canada. While our Foundation has covered how to prevent learning loss during the seasonal stretch, there is another area that parents want to be mindful of at this time of the year, especially as it applies to family vacations; […]
Christine’s Journey: Helping To Shape the Future of Naturopathic Medicine in Canada
Discover how a bursary from Plant a Seed & See What Grows Foundation helped Christine Darragh overcome cancer and pursue a career in naturopathic medicine in Canada. Learn how you can support future healthcare leaders.
Learning to Live in the Present
Learning to Live in the Present: A Daily Guide for Your Child The weeks, months, and years seem to fly by as we get older, don’t they? Meanwhile, when we’re young, it feels like it takes a lifetime for the calendar to change. There’s actually science (or is it math?) behind behind this phenomenon. You […]
How to Boost the Self Esteem of a Child with Disabilities
How to Boost the Self Esteem of a Child with Disabilities this Summer Vacation Remember summer vacations from our youth? Of course you do, because not only were those school siestas the highlight of our adolescent experience, they provided the opportunity to reinvent ourselves. You could leave a grade in June and return as a […]
Teaching Kids to Prioritize
Teaching Kids to Prioritize The concept of multitasking is purported as being beneficial in the grownup world of workplace productivity. However, it is not something that the adolescent mind is prepared for. Even when a child is excited about a given project or goal, attempts to juggle too many things at a young age can […]
My Child Wants a Pet But We Can’t Get One
My Child Wants a Dog/Cat But We Can’t Get One, What Now? Having and taking care of a dog or cat has a number of proven benefits for children, including the following: And then, there’s this: Wow. When you consider all of the above, how could any parent not want to get their child the […]
Celebrate Earth Day 2025 with Exciting Live-Stream Events and a Creative Photo Contest!
Celebrate Earth Day 2025 with Exciting Live-Stream Events and a Creative Photo Contest! Earth Day 2025 is just around the corner, and we are thrilled to invite you to join us for an educational, and fun-filled celebration with two special live-stream events. Designed especially for young learners in Kindergarten to Grade 3, this event will […]
Things Kids Can Do Outside
Things Kids Can Do Outside (that they wouldn’t normally do) Childhood benefits of being outdoors are well researched, documented, and reported to the general population. Conversely, the disadvantages of being indoors too often are also understood: “A recent Statistics Canada report found that children between the ages of five and 17 had an average of three hours […]