This Saturday we’ll be learning from sexual health educator & author, Meg Hickling on how to talk with our kids about, you guessed it, sex.
Meg is a Registered Nurse who has been a sexual-health educator for more than thirty years. She is the author of Boys, Girls & Body Science: A first book about the facts of life, and the bestseller Speaking of Sex: What Your Children Need to Know and When They Need to Know It, which has become the resource for parents wishing to teach their children about sex.
She is also the author of More Speaking of Sex and a video series, Sex Spelled Out for Parents. Meg Hickling is an Officer of the Order of BC and the Order of Canada.
Meg Hickling will be speaking at three workshops (for different age children) in Victoria on February 16th. Find details here.
Improving Outcomes for Kids with Learning and Attention Difficulties
Dyslexia and ADHD are just a couple of the learning and attention difficulties facing many children today. I’ll chat with Jason Cruickshank, Principal of Eaton Arrowsmith School in Victoria BC. This school works with youth who are facing these issues and uses a unique program of 19 exercises individually tailored to meet their needs.
Rather than teach these students strategies to bypass the weaker areas of the brain (as is the most common instructional approach for students with learning disabilities – called accommodations), the program works to strengthen those areas; as the capacity for learning in the associated areas increases, learning in mainstream environments is more achievable. Less cognitive effort is then needed to process information efficiently and effectively, enabling students to keep up to regular instruction.
We’ll learn more about their strategies and successes at Eaton Arrowsmith School on the show this Saturday!
Join me for another interesting episode of Real Parenting this Saturday, February 5 from 10-11am on CFAX 1070! Stream live here.