Interesting Reading for Parents or Teens:
(Updated whenever I read an interesting piece or someone else mentions one to me).
How early sports specialization is eroding sports
Articles by Ian Mendes (Sportscaster and columnist in Today's Parent)
- Clothes Call and March Break
- Cleaning the Family Car, Worst Chore Ever
- OMG, I have a tween daughter
- In-laws or Out-laws
Sci Show Video - The Teenage Brain
CBC - The Science of Studying: How Students can put their Brains to Best Use
Macleans - Inside your teenager's scary brain.
The Atlantic - Why Kids Need Recess and Why it's Endangered
The New York Times - The Boys Are Not Alright
Literacy Links
Ottawa Public Library - Get your library card and open up another world of possibilities. We have one of the best public library systems in Canada. If your neighbourhood library doesn't have a book, it can be shipped in from other branches to your branch with the click of a mouse! Mr. Blank's family uses it all the time.
Good Reads - It's a website where you can rate the books you've read and then it generates a list of books you may be interested in reading. Mr. Blank uses it frequently.
(Updated whenever I read an interesting piece or someone else mentions one to me).
How early sports specialization is eroding sports
Articles by Ian Mendes (Sportscaster and columnist in Today's Parent)
- Clothes Call and March Break
- Cleaning the Family Car, Worst Chore Ever
- OMG, I have a tween daughter
- In-laws or Out-laws
Sci Show Video - The Teenage Brain
CBC - The Science of Studying: How Students can put their Brains to Best Use
Macleans - Inside your teenager's scary brain.
The Atlantic - Why Kids Need Recess and Why it's Endangered
The New York Times - The Boys Are Not Alright
Literacy Links
Ottawa Public Library - Get your library card and open up another world of possibilities. We have one of the best public library systems in Canada. If your neighbourhood library doesn't have a book, it can be shipped in from other branches to your branch with the click of a mouse! Mr. Blank's family uses it all the time.
Good Reads - It's a website where you can rate the books you've read and then it generates a list of books you may be interested in reading. Mr. Blank uses it frequently.