Children - UK vs. Canada
Hi, just wondered if anyone would care to share their opinions on raising children in Canada, as opposed to the UK?
Pros, cons, that kind of thing! :thumbsup: |
Re: Children - UK vs. Canada
Originally Posted by RedMonsk
(Post 5869468)
Hi, just wondered if anyone would care to share their opinions on raising children in Canada, as opposed to the UK?
Pros, cons, that kind of thing! :thumbsup: I have children here. My brother has children in the UK. They're similar ages. Mine haven't reproduced. |
Re: Children - UK vs. Canada
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 5869479)
I have children here. My brother has children in the UK. They're similar ages. Mine haven't reproduced.
How old are your children? How long have you been in Canada and how did the children take to living there? :) |
Re: Children - UK vs. Canada
Originally Posted by RedMonsk
(Post 5869492)
Yikes! :eek:
How old are your children? How long have you been in Canada and how did the children take to living there? :) |
Re: Children - UK vs. Canada
Originally Posted by RedMonsk
(Post 5869468)
Hi, just wondered if anyone would care to share their opinions on raising children in Canada, as opposed to the UK?
Pros, cons, that kind of thing! :thumbsup: What's your parenting skills like? |
Re: Children - UK vs. Canada
We always bought the best house we could with the largest Mortgage we could handle, we were able to ensure the Boys were raised in an environment where people shared our value, not whether to go to university, but which one??
You raise kids to a certain age, then to a large extent, their friends raise them, and that is the key, know their friends, now what they are up to, get them in at least one sport a season while you can, athletics and a team spirit do help. I have 6 Brothers, all our Children are vastly different, from one who is a Welfare Mother who bleeds the system, the whole gamut to another who Teaches Music and is very active in the Baptist church. Mine are the University Trained, my Brothers , Electricians. |
Re: Children - UK vs. Canada
Originally Posted by Howard1944
(Post 5870878)
We always bought the best house we could with the largest Mortgage we could handle, we were able to ensure the Boys were raised in an environment where people shared our value, not whether to go to university, but which one??
You raise kids to a certain age, then to a large extent, their friends raise them, and that is the key, know their friends, now what they are up to, get them in at least one sport a season while you can, athletics and a team spirit do help. I have 6 Brothers, all our Children are vastly different, from one who is a Welfare Mother who bleeds the system, the whole gamut to another who Teaches Music and is very active in the Baptist church. Mine are the University Trained, my Brothers , Electricians. |
Re: Children - UK vs. Canada
Originally Posted by daft batty
(Post 5871009)
Whats with all the capitals??
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Re: Children - UK vs. Canada
Originally Posted by Rob4BC
(Post 5871166)
They Are oN SpecIal TodaY!!!:lol:
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Re: Children - UK vs. Canada
Originally Posted by Grah
(Post 5870708)
Don't know how to answer
What's your parenting skills like? I wasn't questioning parenting skills, I was just curious to know how different, it at all, life was for children in Canada?! :p |
Re: Children - UK vs. Canada
We visited with friends a couple of summers ago in Eastbourne. Their kids and ours are all about the same age (8-11).
After the initial novelty of being from different countries wore off, there didn't seem to be much difference at all. |
Re: Children - UK vs. Canada
Is there no-one out there that moved to offer their children a better life? :confused:
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Re: Children - UK vs. Canada
My question has obviously confused people?! :unsure:
The thread 'Why do you want to leave the UK' seemed to concentrate on the influx of immigrants - we have a long list of why we do want to leave, but that certainly isn't one of them. My husband, as a carpenter, works with Polish and Russians, who are very hard-working (although he has to admit the standard of work isn't so high!) - so if they are prepared to work and pay their dues - why stop them?! Our main concerns are our children - youth culture is reaching epidemic proportions - the town we live in has an average house price of £400,000 and 33 children were refused a place in a local nursery (it even made national news!) .... I could go on but I won't bore you... I just wonder how life in Canada would differ for them .. if at all? :unsure: |
Re: Children - UK vs. Canada
Originally Posted by Howard1944
(Post 5870878)
Mine are the University Trained, my Brothers , Electricians.
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Re: Children - UK vs. Canada
Originally Posted by RedMonsk
(Post 5871482)
My question has obviously confused people?! :unsure:
Our main concerns are our children - youth culture is reaching epidemic proportions - the town we live in has an average house price of £400,000 and 33 children were refused a place in a local nursery (it even made national news!) .... I could go on but I won't bore you... I just wonder how life in Canada would differ for them .. if at all? :unsure: Kids being brought up on an acreage in Nova Scotia would probably have a different set of experiences from an inner city area in downtown Toronto or Vancouver! I do believe that there is possibly less of a drinking culture here .... but kids do drink, and many youngsters smoke (not just cigarettes). They don't tend to hang around in aimless groups, smashing up the neighbourhood ... not in our neck of Calgary anyway .... probably too cold! And grafitti/vandalism is relatively rare. I might add that neither of my two tended to that sort of activity in England either.... Certain areas have a higher crime rate than others, but it is arguably much lower here than where we lived in Sussex. However, we do have some drug/gang/gun culture problems here in the city, and there have already been several murders this year. Do not think this is Utopia! Kids play hockey and hang out in malls etc. Opportunities for organised sporting activities are numerous, but not inexpensive! Children appear "nicer" in the main, .... much more polite and respectful. My son enjoys high school and there are many different ways in which the schools encourage a rounded confident individual (in our experience). Personally, we feel we gave our kids a huge advantage, bringing them to Canada. They were aimless and failing back in the UK, and nobody seemed to care. Now my elder boy is doing and engineering degree at University of Calgary. Whatever opinion anyone gives, there will be somebody to disagree and argue on here, but for us and ours, it was the best thing ever to come to Calgary! :thumbsup: |
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