Pocket Tots Childcare

09/30/2026

09/30/2026

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How to Be an Active Non-Indigenous Ally: Practical Steps for Truth and Reconciliation 🌲

Allyship is not a label we claim; it is an ongoing practice of learning, listening, and taking meaningful action. To support Truth and Reconciliation, non-Indigenous allies must actively work to dismantle systemic barriers and foster cultural safety in their personal and professional lives.

If you are looking to move from awareness to action, here are practical steps you can take to practice active allyship:

1. Do the Groundwork: Educate Yourself First.
Read the Calls to Action: Familiarize yourself with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) 94 Calls to Action. Identify how they apply to your specific field, workplace, or community.
Learn the Local History: Research the treaties, traditional territories, and languages of the land where you live and work.
Listen Without Interrupting: Seek out books, podcasts, and articles by Indigenous authors, historians, and Elders. Focus on listening to understand, rather than responding.
2. Challenge Bias and Speak Up
Address Harmful Stereotypes: Gently but firmly challenge myths, racist remarks, or systemic biases when you encounter them in social, familial, or professional settings.
De-center Yourself: Use your platform to amplify Indigenous voices, rather than speaking on their behalf.
3. Support Indigenous Sovereignty and Economy
Buy Indigenous: Make a conscious effort to support Indigenous-owned businesses, artists, and community-led initiatives.
Support Grassroots Organizations: Donate to or volunteer with organizations that support Indigenous youth, language revitalization, and land-based healing.
4. Reflect and Adapt Your Practice
Examine Your Workplace: Ask how your organization can integrate cultural protocols, provide trauma-informed spaces, and recruit and retain Indigenous staff equitably.
Embrace the Discomfort: Acknowledging difficult truths can be uncomfortable. Accept this discomfort as a necessary part of growth and healing.

Reconciliation is a shared responsibility. By taking consistent, respectful action, we can build a foundation of mutual respect and genuine partnership.

09/30/2026

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

At Pocket Tots Childcare, today is a day to pause, listen and continue learning. To honour the children who never came home, the Survivors of residential schools, their families and communities, and to remember that every child matters.

With little ones, I believe this begins in simple but meaningful ways: creating spaces where children know they belong, where their families and cultures are valued, and where we continue to learn alongside one another.

A reminder that Pocket Tots Childcare is closed today, September 30, in recognition of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. 🧡

09/18/2026

09/05/2026

“Long term, we want parents and policy makers to understand that it is the meaning children make out of their experiences that is of value and once they learn how to be such good problem solvers, they will move on to reinvigorate the rest of the educational system, which sorely needs their creativity and innovative thinking.”
—Ellen Khokha
Innovations in Early Education: The International Reggio Exchange, 17(1), p. 20

09/04/2026

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09/04/2026

Because we all belong💕

There is something pretty special about watching children return to a challenge they explored a year ago and seeing just how much has changed.