A new school year is just a few days away and while I love summer (and I had a really great one) I’m really looking forward to going back to school. A new year at school is when you get a fresh start. You can put last year behind you and you get to try […]
Family Channel announces special programming for Bullying Awareness Week. Stand UP!
I’m a big fan of the Family Channel and one of my favorite shows is The Next Step. If you come here often, you’ll know that I love their messages about important issues that affect young people. For the 13th straight year, Family Channel is launching it’s anti-bullying campaign, Stand Up!, It’s all about preventing […]
5 Inspiring Quotes from 5 Inspiring Women on Women’s Equality Day
Today is Women’s Equality Day! Today is a day when we not only talk about the issue of women’s equality and how we can reach equality for all, but this is also a day when we highlight some amazing women who shine a light on this issue and believe that we can get there. Here […]
What My Week At Toronto School Of Art Taught Me About Life
I took a week-long class in August at the Toronto School of Art with theme of Cartooning and Storyboarding. It was an amazing week! I didn’t really know how to really draw before, I can draw as well as your average 12-year-old, but during that week, I learned the basic elements of art and how […]
Who’s ready to change the world? WE are!
There have been many milestones in Free The Children’s since Craig Kielburger founded it in his grade 7 classroom in 1995. To date Free the Children has: Built more than 650 schools Provided clean water to more than 1 million people Donated more than 16 million dollars of medical supplies Inspired and empowered a generation […]
Back to School: Making Litterless Lunch (with a little help from my friends)
It’s the middle of August and while there are still a few full weeks of summer, the truth is, we’re close to school starting again. The signs are everywhere – literally. You can’t go to the grocery store or the mall without seeing advertising for back to school everything from clothes to shoes and notebooks […]
Get your creative on with this contest and giveaway from me and the Toronto School of Art!
I have always loved creating things – whether it’s a blog post or a craft project – seeing the finished product makes me feel great. Like writing and blogging, there are skills and techniques you can learn and practice to create cool and beautiful art. I’m taking a summer course at The Toronto School of […]
For her 12th birthday, Maya did something AMAZING.
This is Maya. Yesterday was her 12th birthday. To celebrate, Maya decided that she was going to do 12 random acts of kindness in one day. She organized a race between 3 teams trying to do the acts as fast as they could! Sounds kind of like The Amazing Race, right? They called it #MayasAmazingRaceOfKindness. This is […]