Monthly Archives: January 2025
HISTORIC BAN: SESAME STREET
My godson-nephew is turning 52 today, but in his early years was a big fan of American TV’s long-running children’s programme, Sesame Street. In the picture above, he and his cousin are even wearing matching Sesame Street-themed outfits. He’s the one on the left, but the nephew on the right was a big fan, too. […]
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR 2025
Happy Year of the Snake!
DON’T FORGET THE ‘STORY’: VICTORIAN ERA CHILDREN’S BOOKS FOR FAMILY LITERACY DAY
If you live in Canada, today is Family Literacy Day, a day ABC Life Literacy Canada created back in 1999 to encourage families to read, play, and learn together as a family. So, if you’re Canadian – and even if you’re not – grab a book and share it with your children. Possibly, for older […]
HISTORIC MYTHS: SCOTTISH MYTHS
Happy Robbie Burns Day! https://www.thehaggisexperience.com/groups-and-corporate/haggis-making-tasting-tour/ https://getpocket.com/explore/item/true-kilts-debunking-the-myths-about-highlanders-and-clan-tartans?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Loch-Ness-monster/631551
HISTORIC PREDICTION METHOD: TEA LEAVES
Earlier this month, palmistry was featured as a way to predict someone’s future. Another is tasseography (the reading of tea leaves), something my birth grandmother (born on the 21st of January, 1890) used to do. When I was a teenager, she read mine, and said a red-headed boy ‘thought a lot about me’. My social […]
HISTORY MYSTERY: DISAPPEARANCE OF RAOUL WALLENBERG
In 1944, a Swedish diplomat and businessman serving as Sweden’s special envoy in Nazi-occupied Hungary saved thousands of its Jews by supplying them with protective passports and letting them take shelter in buildings he declared Swedish territory. But it wasn’t the Nazis who put an end to his activities. Raoul Wallenberg was arrested on January […]
HISTORY TIDBIT: THE RIDEAU CANAL SKATEWAY
The capital city of Canada is Ottawa, but that doesn’t mean it’s chiefly made up of government buildings. Heritage sites abound, and there are even places where people can have fun. Such as, in wintertime, the Rideau Canal, a waterway that Canada opened up in 1832 as one of the ways to guard against attack […]
HISTORIC CHANGE: FIGHTING WILDFIRES
Wildfires are no longer handled the way they used to be in the U.S.A.. https://kids.kiddle.co/History_of_wildfire_suppression_in_the_United_States
HISTORIC PREDICTION METHOD: PALMISTRY
A new year inspires some people to try to divine their futures, but predictions can be made all year round, and by various means. Among them, the ancient practice of palmistry. https://www.textmanuscripts.com/blog/entry/01-22-on-the-idea-of-the-future https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-beginner-s-guide-to-reading-palms?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
Time Travelling With Kids 