Know Your Backpack Limits

As you begin to purchase back-to-school supplies for your children, it's important to know the health risks that are associated with a backpack that is too heavy.

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A Prayer for the New School Year

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Colouring Fun

Relieve stress this summer and inspire creativity while at the cottage or on a rainy day. Download the free CHRI colouring pages:

• CHRI Colouring Page 1
• CHRI Colouring Page 2
• CHRI Colouring Page 3
• CHRI Colouring Page 4

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Kids Love to Be Complimented

You see how their face lights up when you tell them you're proud of them?
If your love language isn’t Words of Affirmation, it may be more difficult for your to find the words to say to compliment your kids.

Here is a list of 99 compliments for kids, from imom.com! Give them out freely! :)

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A Shoe Sizing Cheat Sheet

Do you ever see a great deal on cute little shoes or winter snow boots and then you can’t remember the exact size of your childrens’ feet? They change so fast! With this little cheat sheet you will be fine. 

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A New Season

Heather Duckworth, a wife, mother and blogger, recently shared a Facebook post about the last summer with her 18-year-old kids and all their friends before they head off to college. Kids she's known for so long and may never see again as they spread their wings.

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One of the Thai Boys is a Compassion Child

The world is rejoicing as all 12 boys and their soccer coach have been rescued from the Luang Nang Non cave in the Chiang Rai, Thailand!

The unfolding drama was followed closely by Compassion International since one of the boys was sponsored by the organization. Click here to read the regular updates by Compassion, with photos and a video from the boy's parents giving thanks to all those who prayed.

Little Boy from Nicaragua Needs a Heart Transplant

Juan Diego was diagnosed at birth with a life-threatening cyanotic congenital heart defect known as Dextro-Transposition of the Great Arteries.
Just 6 hours after his birth, he underwent heart surgery to keep him alive and, at just 10 days old, he went to see a heart specialist in Columbia where they found several other heart defects. These doctors were not equipped to perform the necessary, high-risk operation so this past Fall, Juan went to the Boston Children’s Hospital in the USA who confirmed the Colombian Doctor’s diagnosis...

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Ontario Elections June 7th

I [Care Baldwin] am not the type of person to be consumed by political news or engage in political debates. I just try and be as educated as I can be and make my voice heard by exercising my democratic right to vote.
But I know it’s easy to get caught up in the fear and division that surrounds election time.

Here are a few ways I have learned to respond:

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Ottawa Family Honours Humboldt

Our country has been shaken more than once this month and as we pray for and mourn the loss of many Canadians, one local couple is sharing the joy of new life.

(Photo:) Matthew Collens and his wife pose with their daughter and newborn son, Jackson Joseph Nickerson Collens, named after Humboldt Broncos crash victim Jaxon Joseph.

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