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Crazy talk. Or, is it? SmartPhones, Cigarettes, and Our Children

Excellent update from VCH – Low COVID-19 transmission in schools

BC restrictions extended until Feb 5, 2021

5 Helpful Steps and Tools to Care for Your Kids as They Navigate School During a Pandemic

2020 Family Resource Guide

The New Year is in full swing. It's hard to believe it's already March and you're probably thinking about Spring...

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Crazy talk. Or, is it? SmartPhones, Cigarettes, and Our Children

Denise Roland

Reading Time: 8 minutes Smartphones are causing negative health effects. We even have a medical diagnosis for smartphone addiction (it’s Nomophobia, by the way). Look...

Parenting

An Inspiring Parent’s Story: Covid and family

Reading Time: 5 minutes When we first began hearing about Covid in early 2020, it barely registered. Like many parents, having my kids at home,...

Parenting

Please Don’t Worry So Much About Me

Reading Time: 4 minutes Excerpt from: “What Young Children Need You to Know: How to see them so you know what to do for them”...

Parenting

Learn the fundamentals of Digital Parenting

Reading Time: 2 minutes Join a free, introductory Digital Parenting webinar Thursday, June 25, at 1:30pm ET! It will focus on parents of children between...

6 Useful Tips On How To Promote Family Wellness During School Closures

Let’s begin with an acknowledgment - these are strange times. Schools have been closed since...

5 tips on how to be more Socratic with your children

The Socratic method is a form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking...

12 sanity survival tips for family time at home

When talking online with a 5th-grade boy recently, he said: “My friends and I thought that...

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Carlie Parkinson

Excellent update from VCH – Low COVID-19 transmission in schools

Reading Time: 4 minutes Since schools reopened in September, VCH...

Amusement

Carlie Parkinson

BC restrictions extended until Feb 5, 2021

Reading Time: 2 minutes By order and direction of the...

Health

Carlie Parkinson

5 Helpful Steps and Tools to Care for Your Kids as They Navigate School During a Pandemic

Reading Time: 6 minutes The holidays are over, and we’re...

Health

Krista Clarke

Helpful ways to help your family deal with injuries

Reading Time: 3 minutes Virtual care is revolutionizing Canadian health...

9 Useful Back-to-School COVID Sleep Tips

All those fun summer days filled with sunshine, family activities, and late nights are quickly...

5 Helpful tips to Manage Nighttime Anxiety

“But I’m not tired!” “What about the monsters in the closet?” “I heard a noise...

5 reasons why parents need more sleep

With kids out of school in most of Canada, most parents find their days full...

Education

Matthew Etherington

10 Home Learning Success Tips for Parents and Caregivers

For many different reasons, parents...

Education

Rashinda Suleman

Preparing your kids for back to school during COVID

Come September, families are expected...

Education

Shimi Kang

The Tech Solution – how to manage screen-time

Technology use carries with it...

Education

Kera Skocylas

12 helpful ways to reduce stress and prepare for back-to school during a pandemic

With the recent announcement of...

Worried about the “COVID Slide”? 5 ways to keep your kids learning this summer

Parents across the country have been faced with the reality of school closures interrupting their...

5 tips on how to be more Socratic with your children

The Socratic method is a form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking...

3 Free learning resources

With schools closing to help stop the spread of coronavirus, millions of kids will be...

Activities

Carlie Parkinson

Physical Activity for Children and Youth this Winter

Reading Time: 3 minutes Children...

Activities

Nicole McCray

Virtual Music Opportunities to Keep Your Child Learning

Reading Time: 7 minutes Music...

Activities

Carlie Parkinson

Fall Activities Now Available

With Back-to-School comes Fall activities....

Activities

Marguerite du Plessis

These Tiny Boots were made for Walking or Hiking – 5 useful tips

Only a few steps into...

Activities

Janeen Lewis

Dig This: 10 Big Benefits of Gardening with Kids

Most parents want their children...

A new future for swim lessons

Reading Time: 4 minutes If you are a new mom or have a new baby,...

Getting peaceful in the Holidays

Many of us here at The Yoga Buggy are Christmas lovers and celebrators, and together...

Mom, When I Grow Up, I Want To Be An Influencer

Reading Time: 4 minutes If you ask your children what they want to be when...

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Carlie Parkinson

3 exciting ways to connect with Santa

Reading Time: 4 minutes An...

Amusement

Carlie Parkinson

Canceled: Experience the Magic of Heritage Christmas at Burnaby Village Museum

Reading Time: 3 minutes The...

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Margot Tache

Halloween Candy – what to do with it!!!!

Reading Time: 2 minutes As...

Events

Carlie Parkinson

Accessible, inclusive trick-or-treating for kids of all abilities

It’s been a tough year...

Events

Carlie Parkinson

2 Exciting Events at the PNE: Drive-Thru Tricks-and-Treats Edition and Slayland!

What have you got planned...

Halloween with a few changes

The BC CDC has released advice on how to approach Halloween this year. It is...

A Taste of the PNE: Drive-Thru Fair Experience

Around this time of year, we would begin planning our annual visit to The PNE...

Phase 3 is a go – 4 exciting plans for Summer!

It's been a long 4 months and many people are feeling exhausted with the social...

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