Investing in Education Before Age 5

It is widely accepted that once children turn the magic age of five that education becomes a public responsibility. Hardly anyone complains about public spending on education.

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Today’s Children: The First to Spend Much of Childhood in Out-of-Home-Care

More than any other time in history: a majority of Canada’s children are growing up in child care settings. Like other of the world’s richest countries, Canada is engaged in a unprecedented child care transition.

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It is your life you are developing.

Your life, and the lives of your children, will prosper to the degree you can openly structure self-directed learning and keep it pleasurable. This is the educational importance of the Internet – you can discover and test thousands of ways to learn, and find what suits you best.

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Community Profile: FASD Key Worker

The Key Worker can offer information and support to families, help identify and advocate for needed supports and services and help to educate the community on FASD. She also facilitates regular Parent to Parent Support…

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A few TRICKS for the TREATS

Obsessed with Rockets, miniature chocolate bars and licorice? These sugary treats are on the minds of kids everywhere, but adults too often get caught up in the flurry of sugar that is Halloween.

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It’s Flu Season…

Flu is spread among children when a child either inhales infected droplets in the air (coughed up or sneezed by an infected person) or when the child comes in direct contact with an infected person’s secretions.

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