Island Parent Magazine Winter 2023
Vancouver Island’s Parenting Resource for 35 Years: Independent Schools & Education Guide • Choosing the Right School • Why Choose a Private School? • Raising Active Kids • Tweens & Teens
Vancouver Island’s Parenting Resource for 35 Years: Independent Schools & Education Guide • Choosing the Right School • Why Choose a Private School? • Raising Active Kids • Tweens & Teens
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would be choosing a mutually-agreeable<br />
design. For ideas, google “Matching Tattoos.”<br />
Go, Go, Go Go-karting. See if you can<br />
keep up with your teen before tripping<br />
the remote shut-off switch. In Comox<br />
Valley, saratogaracing.ca.<br />
Write a Blueprint for the Perfect<br />
Day and then turn it into a reality. Or Go<br />
50/50 and have your teen plan one half<br />
of the day while you plan the other half.<br />
Then surprise each other with your plans.<br />
Explore a New Area Together—even<br />
if it’s just a new neighbourhood. If you’re<br />
mobile, drive to another community<br />
on the <strong>Island</strong> and poke around. For an<br />
added activity, research your destination<br />
beforehand to determine some must-sees.<br />
Recreate Family Photos. For inspiration,<br />
visit then-and-now-photos.tumblr.<br />
com. Or, if you have absentee family<br />
members, make a family collage or photo<br />
album instead. Too often, in this day of<br />
digital photographs, shots stay stuck on<br />
cellphones or in cameras and never make<br />
it into a photo album. Kids, whatever<br />
their ages, love looking at old family<br />
photos. Make them accessible and enlist<br />
their help in the process.<br />
Go Out for Dinner Together to a place<br />
that serves a type of food that neither of<br />
you have tried before. Try Tibetan, maybe,<br />
or Caribbean, Moroccan or Creole.<br />
Create Your Own Sandwich at Red<br />
Barn Market. Better yet, hike to the top<br />
of Mt. Work first to work up an appetite<br />
then head to the West Saanich Road Red<br />
Barn (other locations include Vanalman,<br />
Mattick’s Farm, Latoria Walk and Oak<br />
Bay). Teen-appetite tested and approved.<br />
Visit the Royal BC Museum and then<br />
See an IMAX Movie. From documentaries<br />
to blockbusters, IMAX fits all ages.<br />
Pretend to be Tourists. Sure the official<br />
version of Tourist in Your Own<br />
Home Town won’t be back until 2024,<br />
but don’t fret. Re-create a version of your<br />
own.<br />
Rent Scooters. Two or one seaters,<br />
scooters at Cycle BC Rentals in Victoria<br />
are 49cc and require the driver have a<br />
regular licence to ride. $16-$19/hour.<br />
victoria.cyclebc.ca.<br />
See a Psychic or Do a Tea Leaf Reading.<br />
Tea leaf readings at Silk Road Tea<br />
SPEND<br />
WITH<br />
Register for SKAM<br />
School of Performing<br />
Arts' Spring Break Camp<br />
and enjoy a week of...<br />
Acting<br />
Arts & Crafts<br />
Design<br />
Improv<br />
Theatre Games<br />
... and more!<br />
GO TO SKAM.CA FOR MORE<br />
DETAILS & TO REGISTER<br />
Pacific School<br />
of Innovation<br />
and Inquiry<br />
The path is made by walking…<br />
Have a child who loves learning and who is looking for a<br />
different kind of learning environment? We offer personalized,<br />
inquiry-based learning for people in grades 9 through 12,<br />
with competency development as the focus.<br />
Information sessions for September <strong>2023</strong> enrollment information are<br />
being held on Saturday, January 21 and Saturday, February 4.<br />
Check us out online at learningstorm.org.<br />
You can also email us anytime at visitors@learningstorm.org<br />
if you want to connect.<br />
SPRING BREAK<br />
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