Cultivating Health: School Breakfast Programs and Community Gardens March is Nutrition Month in Canada, prompting reflection on the pivotal role of nutrition in fostering well-being. Within this context, the Plant a Seed & See What Grows’s initiatives, notably school breakfast programs and community gardens, stand as pillars in promoting healthier eating habits among vulnerable communities […] The post Cultivating Health: School Breakfast Programs and Community Gardens appeared first on Connecting Communities to the Land ..read more

How to Help Your Child Reach Their Full Potential What does the video above have to do with your query about how to help your child reach their full potential? It requires a little reading between the lines of the quote from Grace VanderWaal. In her interview with Rolling Stone, VanderWaal stated: “It’s about how […] The post How to Help Your Child Reach Their Full Potential appeared first on Connecting Communities to the Land ..read more

How to Teach Kids to Work Hard (while having fun!) The most important mathematic equation that a child can learn is that hard work leads to success. While we know that there is a lot of nuance as to what is considered hard work and what constitutes success, can we just admit that these are […] The post How to Teach Kids to Work Hard appeared first on Connecting Communities to the Land ..read more

How Children Can Learn to Stop Procrastinating In our recent feature about How Children Can Change the World, we talked about the need for them to overcome something that many generations prior have been guilty of – procrastination: “Ironically, most children aren’t taught about the concept of procrastination until much later in life, when it’s […] The post How Children Can Learn to Stop Procrastinating appeared first on Connecting Communities to the Land ..read more

How Kids Can Change the World : Part I Our planet is facing a number of challenges, and we cannot isolate children from these concerns. Access to online media has made the latter impossible. Perhaps that’s a good thing, because they are the ones who will lead us into the future. You see, it’s not […] The post How Kids Can Change the World appeared first on Connecting Communities to the Land ..read more

Can School Gardens Help Prevent Bullying? It’s an uncomfortable topics for parents, teachers, school administrators, and adults as a whole. But do you know who it’s most uncomfortable for? The children who are impacted by it. For this reason we cannot shy away from the fact that despite recent progress in prevention, bullying is still […] The post Can School Gardens Help Prevent Bullying? appeared first on Connecting Communities to the Land ..read more

Research from five years ago found that 70% of parents worry that their kids won’t make friends at school. The concern has grown since the events of 2020/2021 placed children into isolation from peers, which has had a reverberating impact into present day. Studies have found that those who were youngest (4-5 year olds) during […] The post How Gardening Can Help Kids Make Friends appeared first on Connecting Communities to the Land ..read more

Improving Children’s Body Positivity Through School Gardening Body positivity, or the body confidence movement, promotes a positive view of all bodies, regardless of size, shape, gender, color, and physical abilities among other criteria. Advocates focus on the appreciation of the functionality and health of the human body, as opposed to assessment of its physiological appearance. While […] The post Improve Children’s Body Image Through School Gardening appeared first on Connecting Communities to the Land ..read more

How to Get Your Kids to Eat Better in 2024 The new year is upon us, and one of your goals for 2024 is to have your household eat even healthier. However, convincing the kids to do so (and stay the course) can be a challenge, especially after they’ve been shoveling sugar cookies like snow […] The post How to Get Your Kids to Eat Better in 2024 appeared first on Connecting Communities to the Land ..read more

How PAS is Helping Those Most at Risk of Food Insecurity This week (November 14 2023) Statistic Canada released the results of a study that sought to gain a better understanding of which Canadian households are more at risk of food insecurity. The timing is important given that high inflation rates have significantly raised the […] The post How PAS is Helping Those at Risk of Food Insecurity appeared first on Connecting Communities to the Land ..read more