Tag: children

Life skills on the menu for Kingston's youth

Two Queen’s students are teaching children with exceptionalities essential life skills out of a President’s Choice cooking school on Princess St.   Founded by Victoria Preston, Sci ’21, and Delaney Clarke, Sci ’21, Big Spoon Lil’ Spoon pairs student volunteers, the ‘Big Spoons,’ with children, the...

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Breastfeeding-friendly spaces open on campus

Thanks to two Nursing students, mothers on Queen’s campus now have three new spaces where they can breastfeed.  The rooms provide private spaces where new mothers can breastfeed without having to leave campus. They’re located in the Ban Righ Centre, the Queen’s School of Nursing and the SGPS...

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Student parents say they need support

When Logan Weaver told her classmates that she had a child, most of them stopped speaking to her. Weaver, ArtSci ’16, gave birth to her daughter Kennedy when she was 18. She took an extra year of high school after giving birth because she didn’t want to start university with a three-month old child...

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Are you ready, kids?

Every SpongeBob SquarePants episode starts with the voice of an old sea captain shouting, “Are you ready, kids?” to a chorus of children who reply “Aye, aye, captain!” As wholesome and fun as this show is, though, recent research shows that younger children might not be ready for SpongeBob after all. When...

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