Our year-long school-age care adventure comes to a close this month, and we are so happy to have had the opportunity to meet the kids and families of Lord Selkirk [ … ]
Tag: preschoolers
Welcome To Buddings Family Community!
Good Bye to 2Loops Online Store! We opened the 2Loops Family (online) Store during the pandemic to connect with families virtually with a way to recycle and reuse their children’s [ … ]
Winter is here!!
Fall is over and Winter is coming!! But don’t worry, Buddings is the warmest place in the city! Always filled with fun and new learnings. Let’s think about how we can [ … ]
Buddings Kids Club – Kindergarten to 12 years old
School Age Care in Cedar Cottage has arrived! Introducing our newest licensed program: Buddings Kids Club! Starting in 2023, our popular, flexible childcare at Storybook Buddings accepts children from 18 months to [ … ]
Awesome Autumn 2023
What’s cool about the fall season? Autumn is awesome for 101 reasons, and from Sept. 16 – Dec. 1, the kids and teachers at Storybook Buddings will explore them all! [ … ]
Saying Goodbye to Broadway in 2023
Keeping our eyes on the road Since the BC NDP adopted their “$10/day” childcare platform in 2017, fee reductions have benefitted almost 100,000 families, providing up to $900 in subsidy for [ … ]
Summer 2023: It’s a hot one!
It’s getting hot in here! So put on your hats and shoes! 🎵 🎶 It is getting so hot! We’re going to use our sunscreen! 🎵 🎶 🙂 The weather is changing, [ … ]
Spring Swap – Apr. 1, 2023 (no joke)
Spring Swap: Apr. 1, 2023, from 10am – 1pm Our kids’ toy & clothing swap is back at Buddings Broadway this Spring, with good quality kids’ stuff, aged 0 – [ … ]
Start Something Small This Spring
Welcome to Spring! Life starts small. And then it grows. One of our favourite books, by Cynthia Rylant and Brendan Wenzel, Life, teaches us that every animal loves their [ … ]
Summer 2022 – Everything Under the Sun
The Sun is out! Its time to explore! Introducing the 2022 summer season at Buddings, Everything Under the Sun, where everyday will be filled with curiosity, adventure, creation and love. [ … ]
Getting to Yes
Fail-safe choices When their physical needs are met, and kids know what comes next, they can choose to communicate with words, and one word they might choose to use is [ … ]
This fall: Breathe Deeply
Breathe in, breathe out… A fourth wave, unrest in the middle East, and a climate emergency that can’t be denied: after that hot vax summer, the world is just [ … ]
Communication is key
"Use your words" If you didn’t know yet that Communication is one of our values from all of our many channels… no problem! Where it really shines is in our [ … ]
Summer 2021: Out of the Storm
Sail away with us, this summer! Never more than this year, has the rainbow better signalled the end of the bad weather. As we sail into summer, Out of the Storm [ … ]
Zero-Waste Recap
Monitoring our Energy After almost three months dedicated to saving the world, the kids and teachers have accomplished a lot! First off, we learned that tracking consumption is the first step [ … ]
Buddings Presents: Zero Waste Spring
It's a Zero-Waste Year! The year is 2021. The global pandemic has shown us how interconnected our world has become, and how technology, and innovation, can help us solve real [ … ]
Buddings presents: Brave New World (of play)
A new winter! “Brave New World” is a big title for incredible books, tv shows, and for our 2020/21 Winter Season. The world is brave! We continuously adapt, overcome challenges, grow and [ … ]
Meeting Physical Needs
Check the physicals When ordinarily happy children are crying “for no reason,” most often, the reason is an unmet physical need. Did they sleep well? Have a light lunch? Children’s [ … ]
Setting a Routine
Routines can be anything! Flexibility is what makes Buddings famous, but we still incorporate consistency whenever we can. Meals, bathroom visits, handwashing, and any daily activity could be done any which way, [ … ]