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Parts of the publication have been reprinted from Jennifer Griffin-Wiesner’s
Your Family: Using Simple Wisdom in Raising Your Children (Minneapolis, MN: Search Institute).
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Funding for this booklet has been made by possible by the National Literacy Secretariat, Social Development Canada and YMCA Canada.

Writer: Carolyn Munson-Benson
Design: Holmes & Lee
Photography: Stacey Brandford
Search Institute Contributors: Kristin Johnstad, Nancy Tellett-Royce
YMCA Contributors: Silvana Anania, Gill Barnickle, Joan Carlson,
Ruth Claybourn, Janet Emmett, Kathryn Haddock, Reid Hepworth,
Barbara Hill, Mary Stobbe, David Wylie