We've covered the many benefits of kids participating in sports and arts based extracurricular activities in Top 10 Benefits of Sports-Based Extracurricular Activities and Top 10 Reasons Your Kids Need Arts-Based Extracurricular Activities. You evaluated your options and chose an activity (or a few!) and hopefully your child is enjoying their activity and everything is tickety-boo at home. For some families however, things may have blown up into World War III with protests of, “I don’t want …
Ten Commandments For Hockey Parents
The back to school flurry and the reddening leaves mean one thing: hockey season is approaching. It actually means many things are approaching, like winter and clearing snowy driveways and nostrils that stick together and dammit where is that second mitten? For many Canadians and Americans whose second home is the rink, winter equals hockey. Every year the equipment is pulled out, tried on, exchanged, skates are laced up, old teammates renew friendships or become rivals, and excitement …
Jumpstart for Young Athletes #JSAmbassadors
Yesterday I drove four young girls to their competitive cheerleading practice. In and of itself there is nothing terribly unique about that usually, but this week it was for two reasons. First, all four spoke excitedly about the Winter Olympics and how many medals we had. I was surprised to hear them shout out the names of so many of our amazing Canadian athletes and speak so proudly of our country. They were practically boiling over with excitement. I love the patriotism that our Olympic …
