Peterborough Kids Magazine: Resources

Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children
Live Together So You Can Live Too by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish.
(Also offered as an eight-week parenting course at the Peterborough Family Resource Centre).

Loving Each One Best: A Caring and Practical Approach
to Raising Siblings by Nancy Samalin

The Baffled Parent’s Guide to Sibling Rivalry by Marian Edelman Borden
Books for Children

The Berenstain Bears Get in a Fightby Stan & Jan Berenstain

A Pocketful of Kisses by Audrey Penn

ZaZa’s Baby Brother by Lucy Cousins

Babysitting courses:

St. John Ambulance, 1500 Lansdowne St. W., Peterborough, 745-0331
Canadian Red Cross, 565 Water St., Peterborough, 745-8222

Home alone course:
Kidproof Canada offers two-hour courses for children aged 10 to 12
that teach safety skills for time spent home alone.
Some courses also include basic first aid. Find course information at www.kidproofcanada.com/courses/overview.aspx

Camping Websites

Recipes for camping food kids can make themselves.

An easily-printed scavenger hunt ready to take along on hikes.

Reservations and information on Ontario Provincial Parks.

Reservations and listings of privately owned campsites.

“Virtual” campsite with lots of camping info and games for kids of all ages.

Camping games prepared by Girl Guides.

A good collection of campfire songs.

A great resource for string games from all around the world.

A list of fun card games for kids.

Plant It and They Will Come
Kids Gardening

KidsGardening :
Great information about gardening with children for parents and teachers, www.kidsgardening.com
Bugbios

Bugbios:
Beautiful site full of colourful bug images, www.insects.org

Tree of life web project:
A wonderful site for information on animals of all kinds, http://tolweb.org
Green Up

Peterborough Green-up:
a great source of information about the harmful health effects of pesticides, and about natural lawn and garden care, www.greenup.on.ca
Summer Company

Business Development Bank of Canada
information on the Young Entrepreneurs Financing Program, Student Business Loans Program, and the BDC Young Entrepreneurs Awards, http://www.bdc.ca.
Junoir Achievement of Canada

Junior Achievement of Canada
an international non-profit organization dedicated to educating and inspiring young people about business and economics. www.jacan.org

Canadian Youth Business Foundation
works with community leaders to provide sponsorship, created by CIBC and the Royal Bank, www.cybf.ca.

Canada's Youth Employment Strategy
helps young people acquire the skills, knowledge and work experience they need for a successful career. Provides information on youth initiatives,student business loans programs, health and safety work experience programs,www.youth.gc.ca.
Canada Business Service Centers

Canada Business Service Centres
provides information on government programs, services and regulations, products and services, www.cbsc.org.

Bizbound
online business resource centre, offering online reference sources, free reports, business plans,www.bizbound.org.
Area Summer Job Information
Job Bank

Employment Planning and Counselling, student services, www.jobspeterborough.ca.
JobBank

www.jobbank.ca.
go to student job search and follow links

Childhood Obesity
Canada’s Food Guide
Dieticians of Canada Eat Well, Live Well Tips and Advice
Ellyn Satter, expert in the field of feeding relationships and eating competence
and resource used by many professional dieticians
HKPR Health Unit
Peterborough County-City Health Unit
Peterborough Healthy Families Centre
For more information on the BMI, see Health Canada’s website, under
Food and Nutrition.
Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health’s 2004 Chief Medical Officer of Health Report Healthy Weights Healthy Lives

Play Is The Thing
Silken's Active Kids
Canada’s Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Living
Canada’s Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Living: for Children and Youth
Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board
For teachers: Workshops to train generalist teachers in phys ed
Diahne Graham, 705-742-9773 ext. 219
Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit: Health for Life, Kim Bergeron/Heather Grundy, 905-885-9100
Active Living Northumberland, Brenda Whitehead, 905-753-2230

The Father Effect
Dads Can - www.dadscan.ca

Fathers.com - www.fathers.com

NewDads - www.newdads.com

The National Fatherhood Initiative - www.fatherhood.org

Fishing LESSONS
Ontario Family Fishing Weekend
Tackle Share

Easy, Healthy Summer Fare
Thai Rice Rolls
Black Bean and Corn Salad
Frozen Banana Parfait

Inspiring Boys to Read
Me Read? No Way – A practical guide to improving boys’ literacy skills, published by the Ontario Ministry of Education. Available free.
Connecting Boys With Books, by Michael Sullivan, Chicago: ALA Editions.
Tips For Encouraging Your Boy To Read, by Michael Sullivan.
Ideas For Getting Boys To Read, by James Moloney.
www.boysread.com – Ideas, strategies and best practices for getting teenage boys to read.
Pathfinder - Reading and the Gender Gap – An extensive list of books, journal articles and websites dealing with the subject of reading and the gender gap.

Summertime Stargazing
www.tcsobservatory.ca
http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov
www.dustbunny.com/afk
www.nineplanets.org
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids

Burnham Mansion

Kawartha Montessori School

Remax/Julie Whiteman