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Keep ’em Busy…
Chrome Music Lab makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments. You can play with these experiments across devices—phones, tablets, laptops—just by opening...
Keep ’em Active…
Learn the Handwashing Dance on You Tube from the viral video choreography of Vietnam’s Ghen Cô Vy.Sport for Life’s PLAYBuilder app offers a list...
Screen-free Survival Strategies
Write a song about your life. Include details like your family, hobbies, interests, loves, pets etc.Write and mail an actual letter to someone you...
Cultivating Joy
The world is in upheaval as we cope with the disruption, uncertainty, and fear of the COVID-19 pandemic. Collectively, we’ve never seen a time...
Pandemic Parenting
We parents have our work cut out for us.How do you juggle working from home with parenting without support? How do you continue your...
Get Moving!
Families, physical activity and fun
Parents know that physical activity is beneficial to the health of their children: it positively affects physical health, cognition, and...
Training Wheels
My kid is cautious.Sure she’s adept at charging across the room and tackling me flat onto the couch, leaping onto my back without warning...
The ‘Dead’ of Winter
The cold weather has arrived along with the need to grab an extra sweater in the morning, frost glistening on spider webs, and of...
Screen Time in Green Time
When I was 16 years old and earned my Novice (N) driver’s license, I got my first cell phone. With an N, you can...
Family Cycling
Vancouver Island is home to an increasing number of families who are choosing to commute by bicycle. Many are concerned about climate change and...
Putting the Fun in Physical Literacy
It’s a typical chaotic morning leading Kindergym. Fifty children under the age of five arrive at a gym full of scooters, hula hoops, teeter...
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