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 […]
How to Get Your Kids to Eat Better in 2024
How to Get Your Kids to Eat Better in 2024 The new year is upon us, and one of your goals for 2024 is to have your household eat even healthier. However, convincing the kids to do so (and stay the course) can be a challenge, especially after they’ve been shoveling sugar cookies like snow […]
How PAS is Helping Those at Risk of Food Insecurity
How PAS is Helping Those Most at Risk of Food Insecurity This week (November 14 2023) Statistic Canada released the results of a study that sought to gain a better understanding of which Canadian households are more at risk of food insecurity. The timing is important given that high inflation rates have significantly raised the […]
How Gardens Can Help Kids in Single Parent Households
How Community Gardens Benefit Kids in Single Parent Households Around 17% of children in Canada belong to lone-parent families. The proportion tends to grow with lower income households and those challenged by systemic discrimination. For instance, more than one-third of Indigenous children in Canada live in a single-parent home. While children raised by a single parent […]
How Gardens Help Kids
How Gardens Help Kids (besides feeding them) The biggest benefit of gardening for Canada’s children is rooted in nutrition. Fruits and vegetables grown in backyards, community/school gardens, and urban farms feed the young masses with healthy antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and other beneficial compounds. We all know this. But when you encourage children to actually get […]