Monday, January 23, 2023 We left Billy Bishop Airport and flew to Thunder Bay. The plane was thirty minutes late leaving from Billy Bishop, so we missed our connecting flight by the time [...]
THE SCOTT PROJECT Making the World a Better Place If you read any of my report cards from when I was a boy, you will read, “Scott loves helping in class.” This is because I’ve [...]
Dezra and Irene I always knew I was adopted. My mother told me every three years, so I always knew it. I remember looking out the front window of our Kingston, Ontario house, hearing my mother [...]
It is hard to believe Kids 4 Kids is celebrating its 30th anniversary this summer. We have had over 40,000 children through our Kids 4 Kids Leadership school programs, summer camps and [...]
It was March 2020 when my world shut down. Everything I do involves schools—my presentations, after-school and lunch-hour programs, everything. I was going to Barbados to perform at a school, [...]
SUMMER CAMP IS A BEACON OF LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL for all the children stuck on their screens and indoors during the “2020 pause.” Camp is an event that children look forward [...]
Summer camp is an environment where children can develop their confidence and sense of independence and improve their self-esteem. It is important to set your children up for success. This can be [...]
ENTITLEMENT DEFINITION: You feel the world owes you. You feel your “stuff or status” makes you a superior person You believe that everything will be easy and be given to you. When situations, [...]
“Sticks and stones will break your bones, but names will never harm you” is a phrase passed on from generation to generation. Children are led to believe that words don’t hurt, but in [...]
COURAGE “I learned courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it. The brave man is not the one who does not feel afraid. But he who conquers that fear. Nelson Mandela To be yourself [...]