Eye on Education: Vision Therapy and Success in the Classroom
With a new school year just around the corner, families are going through the checklist to get ready for school: shopping for new backpacks, shoes, and even new glasses to match the threads! What I recently discovered is that some eye
Kids in the Kitchen: Part One of a Three-part Series on Cooking with Kids
I’ll let you in on a little secret, but only if you promise to tell everybody . . . The number one way to overcome Picky Eater Syndrome (and the parental guilt that often accompanies it) is to teach children how
Care, Compassion and Grit: Kids Benefit from Raising Animals
Baaing, mooing, and chirping sounds fill the animal barns at the Clark County Fair. Fans whir as dust swirls and sweat drips down happy faces. These faces belong to youngsters who have worked long and hard to prepare their animals
The New Domesticity: The Town Dressmaker & Back-to-School Clothes
We sat around the dining room table, each equipped with a needle and thread. Shimmering white beads and lace were strewn before us, and, although we couldn’t sew as quickly as we could chatter, we were definitely making headway. And
Renaissance Dad: Softening the Back-to-School Blow
Let’s face it: no one enjoys coming back from vacation. It’s no different for our kids. Expecting a child to transition from the hedonistic joys of summer vacation to the regimented disciple of school is like asking a newlywed to come home
Pet Microchipping: Turning Lost into Found
Millions of pets go missing each year. Unfortunately, very few of them are ever reunited with their owners. Many of them become and remain strays. Others are taken to pounds or shelters, where they are all too often, euthanized. The
Kids Play (And Learn) All Summer Long at Summer Playgrounds Program
Tabatha Williamson was at church when she first learned about a free weekday supervised summer program at Evergreen Park on 4th Plain Blvd., not far from where she lives with her two children, Isabella (8) and Noah (9). It turned
The New Domesticity: Something Kind for Someone Else
The lawn shot up well past our shins, but we were blissfully ignorant of the work that lay before us. Our friends would soon be moving in down the street, and we had concocted a grand plan: we would mow