Archive for the ‘Soch’ Category

Last night, CBC was showcasing Back-to-School experiences and touched upon the opinion that anxiety and depression are increasing at an alarming rate in children. When we think of Back-to-School, all we tend to notice are the sales for new clothes, backpacks and so forth but we do not often recognize the emotional aspect of this […]

We have often heard about research that shows children having a better chance of becoming fully literate adults if reading is encouraged from an early age.   But what happens when the parent cannot read English?  Are these statistics based on English-literate families only? I recently heard a comment from a parent who would love […]