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About Us Kiddo

kid·do

/ˈkidō/
noun informal

Kiddo: Someone who is at least slightly younger than you in age, but so aptly intellectual as to have the best of both worlds; brains and purely cute facial characteristics combined with childish noises that cause her companion to smile with delight.

Mission

Our Mission is to actively preserve and promote the Spanish language, family values, and cultural heritage among the new generations of Hispanic Canadians. We strive to act as promoters of education, culture, and environmental awareness and are committed to creating a better community and world for all.

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An Inspiration Called "Kiddo"


At the time when my twin boys were attending daycare; it was very hard to find Spanish books or magazines that not only would teach the language but also transmit culture. As parents, we started to generate ideas about creating a kid’s publication. It would tell stories and fables passed on from our parents and grandparents and have games and activities in both languages, English and Spanish.

With this concept, a purpose, a target audience, and the desire to teach our Hispanic culture and language; it was just a matter of giving the magazine a proper name.
The name "kiddo" comes from a former boss and friend (Thomas Nater) who called me “kiddo”. In my mind, “kiddo” had the image of a little girl or boy playfully learning. We now had a name for our bilingual magazine: “Kiddo Magazine”. The rest of this story is now a collection of numerous issues that we have been publishing since 2007.    

How It All Started


Since Kiddo Magazine was launched in 2007, during the Folk Arts Festival - Open house of the Latin American Cultural Club of Niagara Region, it has come to be well known among many families in and outside of the Niagara Region (Hamilton, Mississauga, Milton, Brampton, Oakville, and Toronto). The magazine’s continued involvement in cultural events; fairs and festivals have also contributed to the promotion of the Hispanic culture and its success. 

From the beginning, Kiddo Magazine has been the joint effort of professionals in various fields working as a team under the same objective: Preserve and disseminate the Spanish language, cultural heritage, and family values to new generations of Hispanic Canadians and Hispanic Americans. That effort continues and has always been a rewarding venture.

The niche gave us the opportunity to create something unique and Kiddo Magazine continues to challenge us just as playful kiddo growing up. The idea is now an institution that day to day explores new ways to transmit knowledge, reach and engage more and more kids.

Zulima Wesso - Director

Want Bright Kids? Be a Brilliant Parent!

(By: Norelis Alvarez León - Clinical Psychologist) 

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Each generation of parents has had its own characteristics, many of our grandparents grew up in plowing fields or caring for animals that were fed by many families at the time, and parents were strict with their children and maybe find them somewhat aggregates in the affective.

Then came our fathers, the rules learned were taught to obey by hook or by crook, one look was enough just to know what to do and what not, when to speak, when to be quiet and how far away from the scene.

Upon receipt of the witness, many of today's parents have worked for not want to repeat a history of abuse, rules, and prohibitions, thus, many studies suggest that the major problem of this generation of parents is the total absence of limits, against an excess of toys, clothes, trips, televisions, and video games ... I'm sure that in all cases, good intentions, only to create a world so unnatural for children who have committed their emotional development, creativity, capacity to take risks and make mistakes, playing ball and running, dreaming, and marvel at life. Forgot the art of talking about themselves!

Not enough time to have good intentions, it takes a generation of parents committed to acquiring tools and habits that transform and enrich children and young people in this world today. "Children need parents not impressive, but human beings who speak their language and are able to penetrate his heart"Augusto Cury

For several years, Dr. Augusto Cury has been developing in Brazil, thorough research on the intelligence multifocal and from them, we want to share the 7 habits of parents brilliant:




Good parents give gifts, bright parents give themselves

Any good parent takes to please, within their abilities the wishes of their children, buying them gifts for Christmas, birthdays, and other dates. Parents give something incomparably more brilliant and valuable: His own being, the open book of his life and history, including the tears, the dreams made and also not met, leaving them to know the central place they occupy in this book their names are not footnotes or in a single chapter, but that cross and mark pattern in history.

Talking about themselves is, in turn, educating our children's emotionality. Once a mother crying desperately asked me what I have to do. How I can learn to be a mother? And simply said, you know kiss? You know to embrace? You know say I love you? ... Remember, no one psychologist technique will work if love does not work.

Good parents nourish the body, bright parents nurture personality

Every good parent is constantly aware that their children are kept well fed. Parents with brilliant emotion and strengthen critical thinking, know that their children will be exposed to a society full of sickness and stress that a society that can even see problems where none exists, the inferiority complex about their bodies and many of our young people live it and suffer in silence.

A child was brought for consultation because although he has been very "shy" while at school, one day he severely beat a classmate. In the midst of the conversation, the boy burst into tears, to say he was tired after that classmate made fun of him for having big ears.

Transmit power and security to their children, not fists, but in the soul. Brilliant parents are not heroes but human beings aware of the limits of their own strengths.

Good parents correct errors, bright parents teach to think

Many parents in their quest for perfection (or your fear of failure as parents) are devoted to criticizing their children and judging the person rather than the behaviors, thus Children stored all these adjectives and reach adolescence, the time to define their own identity, come to light all those behaviors and emotions expressed the belief that indeed they are the worst. Parents educate bright for reflection and for the creation of new attitudes.

Good parents tell their children: "You're wrong"

Bright Parents say:  "How about your behavior?"



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Successful parents prepare their children for the applause

Bright parents prepare their children for failure: it is very good to encourage our children to succeed, but we can not forget to tell them not always achieve what they intend and that does not mean failure, but learning less rewarding experience, is important to train them to take risks, not tried to preserve all your legs fall because it will not be strengthened for the journey of life and will have to make them persevere in their goals and sensitive who can discover the beauty hidden in small flowers and perhaps also in the dried leaves of the road. Remember, if you teach your children today to overcome failure, one day to teach them life and perhaps no longer as close as you're getting up in the fall.



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Good parents talk, bright parents dialogue as friends

—"Did you talk to him? – Yes! – And what did he say? "Well, really nothing, I just heard"...

When we talked transmit information about the world around us, our views, and our positions on things. When discussion will talk about the world we are, about what lives inside us, we share our experiences and open our hearts to another. It is urgent that parents and children into the habit of sitting down to talk, giving them the freedom to talk about themselves, their concerns, and difficulties.

Did you tell your children your most important dreams, your greatest joys, your deepest disappointments? Do not ask! Start by talking to you.

Parents give good information, bright parents have stories

Always impressed me home with great libraries, perhaps because I love reading, but our children need more than a wealth of information, they need their parents to know to tell stories. Do not be afraid to look ridiculous by inventing stories. You can teach a lot by speaking little and your children will always hear new and not be in the mood of weariness that produces "the same sermon as usual." Technical change, no need to shout or attack, do not respond aggressively Stop! It tells a story about what you teach.

Good parents provide opportunities, bright parents never give up

This habit transcends the limits of patience and tolerance, may your children sometimes be disappointed, are not what you expect (nor have to be), a brilliant father is convinced that his son is a great human being on the road to learning, they should ensure that neither looks even own child, adolescent or young person gets to see. I have spent many years listening to the heart of many teens who feel misunderstood or unserviceable, their face lights up and life will change when they discover they actually have potential, they can give more, be different and discover a treasure that is within who had managed to see with their own eyes. This is truly transforming.

Parenting is not bright perfect, but they are human beings in contact with themselves, knowing their own weaknesses and flaws, taking into their hands the power to transform themselves, able to give their children a light shine upon them all the way and the greatest force that has the human being's core strength: the ability to love and be loved♥.

 

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Parents give good information, bright parents have stories

Always impressed me home with great libraries, perhaps because I love reading, but our children need more than a wealth of information, they need their parents to know to tell stories. Do not be afraid to look ridiculous by inventing stories. You can teach a lot by speaking little and your children will always hear new and not be in the mood of weariness that produces "the same sermon as usual." Technical change, no need to shout or attack, do not respond aggressively Stop! It tells a story about what you teach.

Good parents provide opportunities, bright parents never give up

This habit transcends the limits of patience and tolerance, may your children sometimes be disappointed, are not what you expect (nor have to be), a brilliant father is convinced that his son is a great human being on the road to learning, they should ensure that neither looks even own child, adolescent or young person gets to see. I have spent many years listening to the heart of many teens who feel misunderstood or unserviceable, their face lights up and life will change when they discover they actually have potential, they can give more, be different and discover a treasure that is within who had managed to see with their own eyes. This is truly transforming.

Parenting is not bright perfect, but they are human beings in contact with themselves, knowing their own weaknesses and flaws, taking into their hands the power to transform themselves, able to give their children a light shine upon them all the way and the greatest force that has the human being's core strength: the ability to love and be loved♥.

 

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