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The class lists have not even been posted yet, and already the question has started coming at bedtime. What if my teacher is mean? What if I get the strict one? What if they do not like me? You offer the obvious comfort, that you are sure the teacher will be lovely, that every teacher your child has had so far turned out to be kind, and for a moment your child seems to accept...

August is National Wellness Month, and if you have scrolled past the reminders to hydrate, move your body, and tend to your routines, you may have felt a quiet pull to do the same for your child. Many parents already are. The lunches are balanced, the screen time is capped, the swim lessons are booked, bedtime holds most nights. And yet a parent can do all of it and still wat...

It is a quarter to ten on a warm Calgary evening, the sky still faintly lit, and your child is wide awake. You have done the bath, the story, the glass of water, the second glass of water. You have said goodnight three times. And still, from the other room, comes the sound of a child who is simply not tired, calling out that they cannot sleep, that they are not even a little ...

There is a particular kind of afternoon that arrives in the last stretch of August. Your child asked for a free day with nothing planned, and you gave them one. Ten minutes in, they are lying across the couch announcing that they are bored, that there is nothing to do, that this day is the worst. The same child who begged for unstructured time now seems undone by it. Somewher...

You tell your child they have five minutes left.

They nod without looking away from the screen.

Five minutes pass. You remind them it's time to turn it off. The game pauses. A video ends. The tablet goes dark.

Then everything changes.

A few moments ago, your child was calm, focused, and content. Now they're frustrated, arguing, or insisting they have n...