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Girls going geek and why you should be paying attention

By //  by Life In Pleasantville 8 Comments

What did you want to be when you grew up? When I was a very little girl I wanted to be a large animal veterinarian. I imagined myself travelling in a dusty pickup truck from farm to farm in red cowgirl boots treating and cuddling sick horses. By grade six my dreams had shifted and I declared to my parents that I wanted to be a molecular biologist so I could cure cancer and maybe even grow a unicorn. Somehow by the time I was at a career fair in high school I had pivoted to a school guidance …

Filed Under: Living, Technology Tagged With: coding, geeks, girls, Level Up, Minecraft, nerds, Scratch, STEM camp, what is STEM, why STEM is important

Tween Boredom Busters – Spring Break Edition

By //  by Candace Sampson 31 Comments

March break is here. *cue the ominous music* Time to break out the tween boredom busters. I don't know about you but I have two tween girls to entertain next week and, for the second time ever, we aren't taking them anywhere. Aside from the fact that they are bemoaning the total cruelty of my husband and I taking off the week after without them, they are also pulling out preemptive cries of boredom. Boredom, Shmoredom I say. This mom has plans and boredom isn't a part of it. Aside from all …

Filed Under: Family Fun, Holidays, June Cleaver, March Break, Uncategorized Tagged With: Boredom Busters, Candace Derickx, girls, Life in Pleasantville, March Break, Spring Break, tweens

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