How to Get Kids to Ask Questions
How to Teach a Child to Ask Questions The power of asking questions cannot be overstated, especially in early youth. It’s how children learn to learn when something doesn’t come naturally to them. Meanwhile, a fear of asking questions is what keeps a lot of children from succeeding in school and in the community. Understanding […]
How Kids Can Overcome Fear
How to Teach Your Child to Overcome Fear (and succeed!) Fear is an emotional human response to real and perceived threats which results in a fight or flight reaction. Historically, it served our ancestors well, ensuring that they keep their distance from sabertooth tigers and the like, However, as the centuries have passed and developments […]
Cultivating Health: School Breakfast Programs and Community Gardens
Cultivating Health: School Breakfast Programs and Community Gardens March is Nutrition Month in Canada, prompting reflection on the pivotal role of nutrition in fostering well-being. Within this context, the Plant a Seed & See What Grows’ initiatives, notably school breakfast programs and community gardens, stand as pillars in promoting healthier eating habits among vulnerable communities […]
How to Help Your Child Reach Their Full Potential
How to Help Your Child Reach Their Full Potential What does the video above have to do with your query about how to help your child reach their full potential? It requires a little reading between the lines of the quote from Grace VanderWaal. In her interview with Rolling Stone, VanderWaal stated: “It’s about how […]
How to Teach Kids to Work Hard
How to Teach Kids to Work Hard (while having fun!) The most important mathematic equation that a child can learn is that hard work leads to success. While we know that there is a lot of nuance as to what is considered hard work and what constitutes success, can we just admit that these are […]
How Children Can Learn to Stop Procrastinating
How Children Can Learn to Stop Procrastinating In our recent feature about How Children Can Change the World, we talked about the need for them to overcome something that many generations prior have been guilty of – procrastination: “Ironically, most children aren’t taught about the concept of procrastination until much later in life, when it’s […]
How Kids Can Change the World
How Kids Can Change the World : Part I Our planet is facing a number of challenges, and we cannot isolate children from these concerns. Access to online media has made the latter impossible. Perhaps that’s a good thing, because they are the ones who will lead us into the future. You see, it’s not […]
Can School Gardens Help Prevent Bullying?
Can School Gardens Help Prevent Bullying? It’s an uncomfortable topics for parents, teachers, school administrators, and adults as a whole. But do you know who it’s most uncomfortable for? The children who are impacted by it. For this reason we cannot shy away from the fact that despite recent progress in prevention, bullying is still […]
How Gardening Can Help Kids Make Friends
Research from five years ago found that 70% of parents worry that their kids won’t make friends at school. The concern has grown since the events of 2020/2021 placed children into isolation from peers, which has had a reverberating impact into present day. Studies have found that those who were youngest (4-5 year olds) during […]
Improve Children’s Body Image Through School Gardening
Improving Children’s Body Positivity Through School Gardening Body positivity, or the body confidence movement, promotes a positive view of all bodies, regardless of size, shape, gender, color, and physical abilities among other criteria. Advocates focus on the appreciation of the functionality and health of the human body, as opposed to assessment of its physiological appearance. While […]