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Shania Twain discusses difficult upbringing as she opens first kids’ clubhouse in Las Vegas

By Robin Leach | October 21, 2013 | 4:37 p.m.

Tears welled up in everybody’s eyes today as superstar singer Shania Twain explained that her own heartbreaking childhood was behind her charity Shania Kids Can as she opened her first clubhouse in Las Vegas. She promised a second will follow here, as “Las Vegas has become my second home,” and then she’ll eventually roll out others across the country.

It was a series of heart-tugging, emotional moments as Shania greeted the kids of her program at Tom Williams Elementary School in North Las Vegas. Shania Kids Can is her foundation that creates activities in elementary schools to assist students who fall into the gap between a dysfunctional personal life and qualifying for social-service intervention.

“These are children who are often victims of abuse and/or neglect who can be difficult to detect. These children are left to face the school day without support and struggle on their own to cope with the negative impact their personal-life suffering has on their social and educational development,” Shania said.

I sat with a dozen of the kids in their new Shania Twain Clubhouse that Shania had created and decorated with inspirational messages, photos, drawings and a board for the children to leave her messages. She promised to reply to them all. She also promised that musicians from her band at Caesars Palace where she headlines at the Colosseum would visit to teach them music and instruments. Shania also is picking up the costs of regular dental hygiene visits there.

Shania and the kids hugged each other individually and as a group circle as they presented gifts to her: flowers, a keepsake spread and a boxed book of letters from each of them. Our thanks to Denise Truscello for the wonderful and uplifting photos.

Shania told the small group of educators and teachers as the kids sat spellbound with open mouths inches from the star: “It’s overwhelming to see all of this in person and see it materialized because it’s the first time I’m standing physically in the room, in the space that we created. I was just looking at my quote here: ‘It’s neither wise nor faith to leave the destiny of any child to luck.’ I consider myself one of the lucky ones, so that is why I wrote that. I didn’t have a support group. It’s not that I didn’t have a school that didn’t care, but they just weren’t organized to properly help the children like myself who really needed it.

“I had a talent, and I was very lucky to have that talent. I was even luckier that I had a parent who nurtured that talent and had the drive. To be honest, a huge part of where I succeeded, and I say unfortunately, was relying on luck — chance. This is what we don’t want to happen to our children. Just from my heart, I am doing this because I understand children who need that extra support. I’ve been there, I’m speaking from experience, and I’m doing it from experience.

“I always had a dream. I always wanted to help children who were living a very similar life to what I had growing up. Not all children in our schools received the same love, nurturing guidance and stability in their personal lives. Many young students are less fortunate and endure daily life without the personal care that meets even the basic nutritional, emotional and hygiene needs essential for proper physical and mental health, and in some cases goes unnoticed by others.

“I was often embarrassed going to school — if I went to school because I wasn’t clean, my hair was dirty. Maybe we couldn’t afford shampoo. It sounds like a very basic thing, but it happened often. You just had to go to school with dirty hair. Or I wouldn’t have the right seasonal clothes and I would go to school improperly dressed, and that was embarrassing and I was humiliated and teased by the other students.

“Often there were times I would go to school and not be able to participate in some of the field trips because we couldn’t afford the dollars, so I was just left out. Simple as that, I wasn’t included. That had a great affect on my self-esteem, and I really did feel like an outcast a lot of times. Another thing was going to school hungry. When I walked into this school this morning, the first thing I noticed was cooking; I could smell food.

“The teachers often heated up their food in the microwaves, and I remember that going to school because kids bring bagged lunches. The cooked food, the smell of it drove me crazy because, first of all, I was hungry. I often went to bed the night before without a dinner, going to school without breakfast, and I didn’t have a lunch. So it was torture walking into a school and smell food — that I was going to have to go through that day hungry. I just couldn’t focus and concentrate properly on my studies.

“The main reason I wanted to incorporate my program into schools is because this is where I think that the support and structure already exist; wonderful people who are willing to do it, and just need a bit of help getting organized, and that’s what I’m hoping to help you do. The funding targets kids struggling with their personal lives and the risk of falling in the gap between dysfunctional home life and qualifying for child-services intervention. This is a big problem. Kids are falling under the radar and not being helped by child services and not getting what they need at home. These schools, I believe, can fill that gap for our kids.

“I started a couple of pilot programs on my own in Canada eight years ago. We had great success, and so now this is our first stage one here. I was welcomed so warmly to Las Vegas right from the get-go, and I didn’t hesitate to make my dream come true; giving back to kids like myself right here in my second home in Las Vegas. The goal is to help hundreds of thousands of kids.”

Shania told one heartbreaking story of how as just an 11-year-old girl she had to take over the role of an adult: “I went to the dentist with one of my younger siblings, and his teeth were all rotten because my parents neglected to recognize that he was having a problem with his teeth. So all of his teeth had to be pulled out that day at the dentist office. My mother was not there with me. At 11 years old, I had to stand there and hold his hand while he got all of his teeth pulled out. It was traumatizing for me and for my brother. All of that was so unnecessary. We can’t always expect our children’s home lives to give them the support they need. When we realize that that’s not happening, we need to step in and make it happen.”

After posing for photographs with the kids and school staff, I sat with Shania for a quiet one-on-one exclusive:

You said it was a dream come true. So what did you flash back at when you said those words?

It’s a dream come true because not that I would ever want to go back, but if I did have to go back, this would be the dream scenario. This would be a savior for a child like me. I would have been over the moon to have a place to go to when I didn’t have winter boots in the winter. All I was wearing were running shoes and rubber boots; I couldn’t go outside and play because I would freeze. I had to stay inside.

Where do you stay inside as a kid while everyone else is outside playing; it’s an awful feeling. You feel left out, you’re embarrassed, you don’t want to tell the other kids why you’re not outside playing. Sometimes I’d make up excuses and say, ‘Oh, I’m not feeling good.’ If I had a clubhouse like this, I would have had a place to go with purpose, a place where I felt I belonged. I didn’t need to give an excuse as to why I was there; I’m here to be productive.

You didn’t have this as a young girl, so the question is when did you grow up and discover you could achieve whatever you wanted?

You know, I did vow to myself very young, still in primary school age, that I would make it. I was determined to make it; making it meant being able to buy a house, pay my bills, eat and just be self-sufficient; independent. That would have been enough for me to say, ‘Alright, now I’m going to start helping kids like myself.’ I would have done it on a smaller scale if I hadn’t become as successful as I am. Now I have the power of celebrity, high profile; I want to use that. I want to get up there and speak, and more people will listen, and it is my story.

How did you stop yourself from crying from all these memories and emotions this morning?

I needed to be distracted. Distraction works very well. As I was coming up the hallway, that’s when the tears were really starting to well up. But then I read the inspirational words on the wall and then I saw the letters from the kids, and I thought, “This is really happening! They’re really doing it!” I just became excited, satisfied and proud, and that distracted me from getting emotional and sad.

So this is the first in America, and will you do more in Las Vegas?

I am considering doing a second one in Las Vegas because I do spend a lot of time here. A lot of people ask me why here? It’s because I’m here. I want to see what’s going on. I can pop in and ensure that the dream is being fulfilled. My husband Fred is doing a great job on a managing level, but it’s my vision, and I have to make sure that I remain involved. So it’s logical for me to do it somewhere where I can be physically, physically visit and get to know everyone a little bit better.

You told the story of your brother having his teeth pulled out. Did you grow up at that very moment?

Oh, yeah. When your parents are not fulfilling their role as the adult caretaker, the child has to do it. There’s no choice. That’s what happens. In this program, I can guarantee you there are definitely some children who are forced to be the adult in their home life. They’re not being supported at home, so they don’t know how to cope with it emotionally. They’re doing it out of necessity, they are surviving, they’re coming to school. Teachers don’t understand what’s going on at home, their friends don’t understand, but they’re still coming to school maybe without bathing properly or without clean clothes or with teeth rotting or not getting enough school.

Or they’re hungry and can’t focus, but they can’t explain it to anybody because it’s embarrassing. So at that time when that happened to me with that sibling, having to be the parent and adult, it was traumatizing for me. First of all, I couldn’t believe that his teeth were that neglected. The dentist said right then I’ve got to pull all of his teeth out, they’re not salvageable. I just realized at that moment, ‘Wow, we’re just entirely neglected here,’ and it makes you angry.

Did you ever get to change that home situation?

No, that was my youth all my primary years. For some families, they go in and out of those phases, but for some kids it’s always like that. The kids don’t necessarily speak up. One child said she was shy, but wasn’t shy about her personality; she was shy about her feelings. Some feelings for kids like myself run so deep, how can you possible explain yourself?

Hopefully what the clubhouse will do, even though these kids are probably older than their years than they should be having to be forced into situations that are beyond their years, this clubhouse is allowing them to be children, their actual age and will help fill that developmental gap. This is going to help them hold on to that youth and cope with the fact that they’ve been forced to grow up too fast.

It was time for another group hug with the kids, and the down-to-Earth glamorous superstar simply showed that her heart is bigger than all of her fame and fortune.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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Shania is such a beautiful person inside and out and I love her more then anything no one will understand how much I love this women. She is my inspiration and role model   and Im so proud  of her she has come such a long way . She is a perfect example  and  all girls and women should look up to a beautiful person like Shania  , '

My inspiration 

My role  model 

My everything 

Sorry i dont  mean to be all mushy gushy i  just really  love Shania  so so much as i said she is my idol .  

After ABC Interview, Shania Twain Gets Philanthropic At A Las Vegas Elementary School

From rags to riches

Shania Twain’s life wasn’t always so glamorous. Before she rocketed to the top of country (and then pop) charts in the ’90s, her rocky, scarring childhood nearly derailed her musical ambitions. After overcoming such adversity, the country icon promised herself she’d give back to those less fortunate. Today, the Colosseum’s country headliner kicked off the first ever Las Vegas SKC Clubhouse of the Shania Kids Can Foundation, which has partnered with The Public Education Foundation of Nevada to assist at-risk students with everything from academic help to mentoring, food and supplies to aid them in leading successful lives. As the charitable songstress was on hand at the grand opening at Tom Williams Elementary School in North Las Vegas, she spoke to some of the children who will benefit from her activism. Twain is currently in town for the fall leg of her “Shania: Still the One” resident show at The Colosseum, which recently added extra performance dates.

Making a difference

“As I began my residency here in Las Vegas, I knew that this is where I should introduce a new program to give back to this wonderful community that has welcomed me with open arms and made me feel so at home,” said Twain. “The children at Tom Williams Elementary are special indeed and watching the development and growth of these children into motivated, high-achieving members of our community will be one of my greatest achievements.” Twain endured poverty and family instability in her youth and has long given back to help aid these causes.

“Looking back at my childhood, I realize that my disadvantages, whether they were due to not having a supportive environment or due to a lack of financial resources, created a lack of self-confidence and insecurity in me, causing me to withdraw and be less social than my classmates.  I promised myself early on in my childhood that I would help kids just like myself cope with their disadvantages and prosper in spite of those challenges. The Shania Kids Can Foundation is fulfilling that promise.”

A celebrity weekend

The appearance comes after a superstar weekend at her Caesars Palace show. Robin Roberts of “Good Morning America” joined Twain on stage for her campfire segment, where she regularly brings up fans from the audience and has them join her in an acoustic sing-a-long. Being that Roberts has now fully recovered from her bone marrow transplant, Twain sang “Come On Over” and her anthem “Today Is Your Day” as Vegas entertainers Carrot Top and Mark Shunock watched from the audience.

While in town, Roberts taped a revealing sit-down interview segment with her set to air on ABC Primetime’s “In the Spotlight” country music special on Nov. 5 in advance of the following night’s Country Music Awards. Twain is also set to appear on “Ellen” on Wednesday, Oct. 23.

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Singer goes to school to support at-risk kids

By MIKE WEATHERFORD | October 23, 2013
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

Shania Twain was very matter of fact, speaking more with a tone of frustration than a “poor me” attitude, when she spoke to youngsters at Tom Williams Elementary School.

“At your age, I went to the dentist with one of my siblings who was younger than me, and his teeth were all rotting because my parents just neglected to recognize that he was having a problem with his teeth,” she said, putting aside her prepared remarks to tell the story.

“All of his teeth had to be pulled out that day at the dentist’s office. My mother was not there with me. I was probably 11 years old, and I stood there and held his hand while all of his teeth got pulled out.

“It was traumatizing for me and my brother,” she added, as if she had to. “All of that was unnecessary.”

This reminder of the country star’s tough childhood in Ontario, Canada, came as an explanation for her Shania Kids Can Foundation. The foundation’s first U.S. venture creates a permanent base in the North Las Vegas elementary school that has more than 1,000 students, about 92 percent of them Hispanic.

The Caesars Palace headliner spoke Monday to 14 students and school district officials inside the classroom that will serve as a “clubhouse” to serve at-risk children.

“We can’t always expect our children’s home lives to give them the support they need. When we recognize that’s not happening, we have to step in and make it happen,” she explained.

A first-year budget of $75,000 will fund a full-time substitute and supplies for the program that will run before, after and during the school day, according to the school’s website. It will identify needs as simple as shampoo or shoes — other personal examples she cited from her childhood — as well as organizing field trips and visits from speakers.

Williams already is a Title 1 school receiving federal funds for free and reduced breakfast and lunch programs. Principal Jennifer French said existing safety net programs lessen the chance of another scenario Twain recounted to students about her youth.

“When I walked into the school this morning the first thing I noticed was cooking. I could smell food,” she said. “I remember that even in my own school years … the cooked food drove me crazy, the smell of it. I was hungry.

“I probably went to bed the night before without dinner, going to school without breakfast and I didn’t have a lunch,” she said. “It was torture to walk into a school and smell food and know that I was going to have to go through that day hungry.”

The singer’s point in telling these stories to the wide-eyed youngsters was that they shouldn’t have to rely on her singing talent or good fortune in show business.

“I wish I could go back and have all this,” she said. “The true, true purpose of the program is, I promised myself when I was a child at this very age, that if I ever had enough money and power and success of my own, I would make sure that no one had to experience what I did in my school.”

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The kids at Tom Williams proudly wearing their SKC shirts! #shaniatwain #shaniainvegas #shaniakidscan

 

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Tom Williams Elementary Gets Visit From Band Members

December 18, 2013

The Shania Kids Can Clubhouse students were treated to a performance by three band members from Shania Twain’s “Still The One” show. Andrea Whitt, Jennifer Eriksson, and Mandy Andreasen spent some time with the students during the December show dates.

The students were treated to a great performance as well as some information on the instruments, and what it takes to be a performer.

Andrea Whitt remembers being inspired to perform at a young age, when she had a guest speaker talk about music and different string instruments during one of her music classes. All three ladies enjoyed interacting with the kids and are determined to spend more time volunteering in the program and encouraging the students to be creative and musical.

A huge thank you to Andrea, Jennifer, and Mandy for volunteering and making a difference!

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Enjoying time with the SKC kids!

 

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What a great picture of some of the staff at Tom Williams Elementary showing their support for #ShaniaKidsCan!

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Snack time at Irwin Memorial Public School...mmmm!!

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The SKC kids at Irwin Memorial Public School enjoy time together in the SKC Clubhouse! Always lots of fun activities taking place. #ShaniaKidsCan

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The SKC kids at Irwin Memorial Public School have participated in some great activities over the year and they are all proudly displayed in the Clubhouse! #shaniakidscan

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Strip Scribbles: Shania's Clubhouse

By Robin Leach | May 22, 2014 | 4:03 p.m.

Several Las Vegas schoolchildren will be presenting their end-of-year report cards to Caesars Palace headliner superstar Shania Twain next week. Last fall, I interviewed Shania after her charitable foundation Shania Kids Can donated funds and furniture to needy Las Vegas elementary school students.

Now we’re returning to the clubhouse to hear about their adventures and experiences and check in on their success stories and education progress. We’ll have that inspirational follow-up story next week now that Shania is back with her run of residency shows at the Colosseum.

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Shania is at Tom Williams Elementary School in Las Vegas today visiting the kids in the Shania Kids Can Clubhouse program.

 

I am sooooo happy! Right NOW I'm hearing all of the stories of the SKC Clubhouse and getting hugs from all the kids! Can't wait to share pictures later. I am BLESSED by EVERYONE here!

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Had a touching visit with the kids in the @shaniakidscan program in Las Vegas this morning! #ShaniaKidsCan

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Interviewed @ShaniaTwain about her Kids Can Clubhouse success at N LV Elementary School b4 taking off for Macau & HBO Boxing assignment

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These young kids were probably wondering who Shania even was! lol

Nothing about new music or extending her Las Vegas residency.

Shania Twain returns to her Kids Can Clubhouse in NLV: ‘It’s such a great success; I feel like celebrating’

By Robin Leach | May 28, 2014 | 2:01 a.m.

For the first time since she launched her Shania Kids Can Foundation Clubhouse eight months ago at a North Las Vegas elementary school, Shania Twain returned Tuesday for a report-card checkup and was ecstatic to hear the passing grades.

After a couple of hours with the kids attending her program at Tom Williams Elementary School, the superstar singer and resident headliner at the Colosseum in Caesars Palace talked with me about her foundation that creates activities in elementary schools to assist needy students who fall into the gap between a dysfunctional personal life, yet don’t qualify for social-service intervention. Our original story was posted Oct. 21.

At that time, Shania told me: “These are children who are often victims of abuse and/or neglect who can be difficult to detect. These children are left to face the school day without support and struggle on their own to cope with the negative impact their personal-life suffering has on their social and educational development.”

It was a completely different story Tuesday. I asked her if it was as exhilarating as the first time she performed onstage.

“Well today was a huge surprise and big change. Seeing all the progress; it was wonderful and so beautiful. I was proud. I sensed a real sense of pride for the children and school. There was huge progress. These kids were just so open and excited. They had questions; they wanted to answer my questions.

“They were proud of their own progress. They’re a unit now, they’re a group of friends, and they have all these exciting things to share. It was fantastic. They have just come out of themselves. They were very communicative, very self-confident and really wonderful. They were just different children.”

And that’s in a period of less than a year?

Exactly! Just eight months, so not even a year.

So what does that prove to you?

It just proves that I’m right, that kids are missing this; there’s a gap. They need the support. It proves to me that the potential is there and just needs to be nurtured. Without this nurturing, they can’t do it themselves. They don’t have the maturity, and by the time they get into middle school, they’re likely to get off track.

It’s too late at that level. They need it, and they need it at this age. They are living my experience, and what I thought I needed when I was younger they’re proving is really the case.

What did you flash back to today about your own childhood?

The flashback I got back today was how lucky they are and how my condition at the time, if only I had this or if only I had that was so true. I feel like I’m back in time when I’m with them.

Did that make you feel sad? What was the feeling that you got?

You know that’s such a good question. There’s a sadness in me not just for myself and remembering how I felt, whether I was humiliated or embarrassed or uncomfortable, but at the same time I felt like celebrating because these kids feel that they’ve got this program now, and they don’t have to experience that or not experience it anymore. I felt like celebrating.

What was the one little story that touched you today?

Ohhh, there are three kids moving on to middle school, and they’re so sad. They said we’re not in SKC next year because we’re going on to middle school, and there’s no SKC in middle school and they’re so sad about it.

Then another girl is moving to another city, and she’s going to leave the program, as well, and she’s still a primary student. That was very touching for me, very sad that it is the way it is at the stage as far as we can go now that we’re able to give, but the need is so broad.

They don’t want to leave the program; they don’t want to go. It’s heartwarming, but it’s sad, too.

Can you expand it? Do you want to?

Oh, I definitely want to expand it. I need money; I need support. I need people, too; I need generosity. The program is established. I’m doing a ton of work to put it together. Like any charity, I need money and support, so that’s my goal, and that’s what I’ll keep doing.

You’ll do it again this fall at the same school or other schools?

I’m not sure. The need is so broad that you could just throw open a map and hit somewhere that needs it. So deciding where to expand the next school is hard to say right at this moment. I haven’t really targeted it exactly.

It’s something you’ll plan this summer, right?

There’s a very generous group in Canada who are dishing out the money, and we’re sitting down now to talk about opening up more schools already in Canada. We need more people like that in America. I’ll open up as many as we can get money for — it could be one, it could be four. Someone could come up overnight and say, “You know what, Shania? This program is so amazing, let’s open up five schools. Let’s open up five more programs.”

What is the program now that you’ve seen it work in Las Vegas?

The program is a dedicated, furnished and equipped space provided for the kids to congregate with a program leader. We’re qualified to nurture and support their learning, their emotional stage and help integrate that into the rest of the school and as a larger community. In this space, we provide motivational speakers who come and inspire the children and motivate them. Talking about their careers and their education.

Field trips throughout the year so the kids get exposed culturally. They get homework support, hygiene support, nutritional support. All of the things that help keep them from getting distracted from why they’re there — to learn. They get relief from all the challenges they’re facing, and then they’re able to focus on their studies, reach their potential academically and actually enjoy themselves and feel comfortable and like they belong. Not ridiculed and rejected.

If you were to grade yourself on the success of this pilot project in Las Vegas, what would you give yourself out of 100? Not you, but the Shania Kids Can?

This program is 100 percent; I’m so satisfied. The school is like a model program; they’re doing such a model job. The students are happy, the program leader is moved; it’s like the experience of her life as a counselor. They’ve never seen such progress in such a short period of time. Listening to them speak is everything. Listening to her speak, listening to the principal speak, the supporting staff and the kids, they are all just over the moon.

This is your first time back since you opened your clubhouse. Do the kids know who you are?

Oh, yeah. The kids know who I am. I don’t know if they know who I am as an entertainer, but they certainly know who I am in association to the program. They love the program. I think they feel ownership of it.

What’s the message that you got out of this today?

It’s working. It’s really, really working. It’s a very customized program; it’s a handheld program, very specific. It’s proving itself very beautifully. I’m just very happy, and I feel like celebrating. It’s just such a great success, and I’m motivated to keep it going. I’m feeling very happy. It’s better than applause at the end of a show.

Shania Twain’s current run of “Still the One” at the Colosseum takes her through June 7.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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A few more pictures and a video from yesterday posted by The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

 

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Shania Kids Can Clubhouse Video

The Shania Kids Can kids of Tom Williams Elementary School presented this video to Shania Twain when she visited the Clubhouse.

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In an article concerning the clubhouses, Shania mentions that she needs money for them to expand and continue. I would think with her insane level of wealth, she can carry them out on her own with her own money if she wanted. She has millions upon millions upon millions of dollars....

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These young kids were probably wondering who Shania even was! lol

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I'm glad Shania is not a children's or teen idol and making serious and grown up music. Luckily she doesn't dress in carnival costumes and has a song repertoire for kids birthday parties like Katy Perry.

By the way I think those clubhouse kids have other problems than worrying about who Shania is. I guess they're just thankful for getting help.

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I hope at almost 50 years old she would be making serious and grown up music.

Katy Perry is annoying and I have no idea why she is even successful. 

And never said that these clubhouses are worrying about who Shania is or that is even a problem. Of course they are grateful to be getting help. And it is great that Shania is helping so much. But it strikes me funny as Shania sits in front of these kids and they are most likely wondering who the heck this woman is......her hit songs were years before they were born.....

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They could know about Shania through their parents. I also know about singers my parents have listened to many years ago. 

Yes, Katy Perry is annoying and most other teen idols as well. Madonna is even over 50 years old and I can't take her music and herself seriously.

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These young kids were probably wondering who Shania even was! lol

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I'm glad Shania is not a children's or teen idol and making serious and grown up music. Luckily she doesn't dress in carnival costumes and has a song repertoire for kids birthday parties like Katy Perry.

By the way I think those clubhouse kids have other problems than worrying about who Shania is. I guess they're just thankful for getting help.

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I hope at almost 50 years old she would be making serious and grown up music.

Katy Perry is annoying and I have no idea why she is even successful. 

And never said that these clubhouses are worrying about who Shania is or that is even a problem. Of course they are grateful to be getting help. And it is great that Shania is helping so much. But it strikes me funny as Shania sits in front of these kids and they are most likely wondering who the heck this woman is......her hit songs were years before they were born.....

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They could know about Shania through their parents. I also know about singers my parents have listened to many years ago. 

Yes, Katy Perry is annoying and most other teen idols as well. Madonna is even over 50 years old and I can't take her music and herself seriously.

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 True. Most likely they know about her through their parents. 

I like some of Madonna's earlier work. Some of it is awful. At least she was an innovator with her style and ever-changing sound. Unlike others who became famous for nothing. Madonna did break many boundaries for female artists, including Shania.

Here is a video interview from Shania's visit to the SKC Clubhouse that aired yesterday (5/29) on FOX 5 Las Vegas.

SHANIA GOES BACK TO SCHOOL

Shania goes back to school to check in on Shania Kids Can Clubhouse. (5/27/14)

http://www.fox5vegas.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=10213039

I knew she was worth something in that range. That is why I thought it was odd when Shania questioned the cost and was hesitant about opening new ones. She certainly has the money to open dozens and dozens of them and still have millions and millions of dollars.

Melanie wrote:

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Maybe she is saving to buy her own island(s) in the Bahamas like David Copperfield.

I would like to watch this interview, but they didn't upload it to their website. Did she say different things than in the other two interviews?

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No. She basically said the same things. All about SKC and why she started it (going to school without lunch, etc). Maybe "Extra" will upload it to their website tomorrow.