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Restons simple: Soutenir les familles d’enfants à besoins particuliers

Restons simple: Soutenir les familles d’enfants à besoins particuliers English | Français Cette semaine, notre éditrice invitée Lyne Charlebois nous offre des façons pratiques de soutenir les familles d’enfants à besoins particuliers. Les familles d’enfants à besoins particuliers rencontrent les mêmes défis liés au COVID-19 que les autres: cette crise nous affecte tous. Avoir un …

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Keep it Simple: Supporting Families of Children with Special Needs

COVID-19 / By Families Canada

Keep it Simple: Supporting Families of Children with Special Needs English | Français This week, our guest editor Lyne Charlebois offers us practical ways to support families of children with special needs. Families of children with special needs are experiencing the same COVID-19 struggles as everyone else: this crisis is affecting us all. Having a …

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Love Builds Brains

Uncategorized / By Families Canada

Love Builds Brains This week, I want to share with you excerpts from a 2019 interview with Dr. Jean Clinton, child psychiatrist at the McMaster Children’s Hospital and clinical professor in psychiatry and neurosciences at McMaster University: A young child’s brain is flexible; its structure is shaped by interaction between genes and experiences, including environment …

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‘Superhero Parent’ Exhaustion

COVID-19 / By Families Canada

‘Superhero Parent’ Exhaustion Are you feeling somewhat exhausted playing the role of ‘superhero parent’ for weeks now? For those of us who had 20th century stay-at-home moms, I don’t think they tried to play that role, although, no doubt some did. On a rainy day like today, I was kitted out in my gear and …

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Food Fight

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By Families Canada

Food Fight News flash—it’s OK to let your kids eat only mac & cheese! Really! I checked! I confess, my inner child yearns for comfort foods right now. That you-know-what boxed mac & cheese is high on my list. In the Vancouver neighbourhood where I grew up, moms creatively threw in hot dogs or a …

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Nurturing Your Kids Through COVID-19

Leave a Comment / COVID-19 / By Families Canada

Nurturing Your Kids Through COVID-19 I’m not a mental health professional, just a mom and a grandma but, like you, I see the impact of COVID-19 on every family member. For little ones, their daily routines are off – no play group or library visits, no trips to the playground, no friends over and family …

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The Primary School is Closed— Now What?

Leave a Comment / COVID-19 / By Families Canada

The Primary School is Closed— Now What? Our world has become the plot of a science fiction movie and it won’t improve anytime soon. Reading between the lines, there’s probably going to be no school until fall. However, the education of our young children need not be among the many things we’re worrying about just …

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Parenting Through a Pandemic: Using Technology.

Leave a Comment / COVID-19 / By Families Canada

Parenting Through a Pandemic: Using Technology Perhaps spring has not sprung yet. Schools and daycares are closed and parents are working from home. Kids, parents and even pets are starting to climb the walls as we all do our part toward social distancing. In an effort to maintain family unity and indeed sanity, “to tech …

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What about my funded projects?

Leave a Comment / COVID-19 / By Families Canada

What about my funded projects? A big challenge for many of us will be figuring out what can carry on, perhaps through remote work, and what must be postponed or outright cancelled. When this is coupled with project obligations to funders, you are probably worried. The good news is we are all in this pandemic …

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What happens if my staff must work from home?

Leave a Comment / COVID-19 / By Families Canada

What happens if my staff must work from home? Few of us are prepared for closed centres with staff working remotely. Is this even possible? Mostly the answer is “yes,” but that doesn’t mean it will be easy. Step one is to think about your staff’s ability to communicate remotely with each other and with …

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