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Instagram of the Week: The Getty Museum Garden
The Getty Museum Garden: It might seem hard to believe, but yesterday our family took it’s first trip to The Getty Museum up in Los Angeles. Hard to believe in that it is one of the more well-known and revered museums in our area – but as busy parents (you know how it is) we didn’t make time for this cultural trip. But am I glad we made the effort yesterday! The museum itself is quite amazing and they are currently featuring paintings from The Renaissance Era and the photography of Ray K. Metzer who is considered one of the most original photographers of the last half-century. If you are local or…
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10 Fun Outdoor Activities for Kids During Winter
Winter doesn’t have to mean chilly afternoons huddled indoors all day. Instead, bundle up the kids for some fun outdoor winter activities (and exercise!) that will get their hearts pumping! Just because it’s cold outside doesn’t mean that you and your little ones shouldn’t bundle up for some winter fun! Knowing the right outdoor activities for winter days (and nights!) is the first step to having a healthy, active winter. “I think it’s important to make fitness a part of your child’s life from the youngest of age. The best way for them to learn it is for you to model it. Do a stroller workout and/or take your baby…
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Celebrate Dr. Seuss Read Across America!
One of my favorite things about being a children’s author is reading to a classroom full of kids! I just love to see their faces light up when we get to an exciting part of the story. Recent studies show that reading to a child up to age 5 is a positive predictor for literacy in later years. (Source: National Early Literacy Report). In May 1997, a small reading task force at The National Education Association (NEA) wanted to get kids excited about reading. Thus, NEA’s Read Across America was born and celebrated on March 1, 1998, Dr. Seuss’s birthday. Now we see everyone from schools to libraries to community centers host events to…
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Kids Online: Teaching Them Right and Wrong in a Grey World
It can be a jungle and a nightmare out there in the Internet world, and our children are being targeted and targeting more and more frequently as technology becomes easier by the minute. Dosomething.org, an organization for teens and social change, reports that 43 percent of kids have been bullied online, and identity theft protection company LifeLock.com states youth as the fastest growing demographic for credit and identity fraud. The World Wide Web can be as wonderful as it is horrible for children and parents. After all, never in the history of the world have we had access to a world of information at the click of a button.…
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Community: Charitable Hearts
“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” ~Mother Teresa In Columbia, South Carolina there is a family with three children. Davis, age 11; Julia, age 9 and William, age 6. In October of 2012, the Hickson family participated in the UMDF Energy For Life Walk (Charlotte). They did the walk as a family in support of one another and most importantly for their son, William. William was diagnosed with a Mitochondrial Disease at age 18 months. During his six years he has already undergone six (6) surgeries, from hip surgeries (both) to Nissen fundoplication surgery (two different occasions) as well as a biopsy to confirm his mitochondrial disease.…
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PARENTING: It Takes a Village…of Good Listeners
I have started and restarted this piece three times. I have talked with professionals. I have made pages of notes and looked at it from a teacher’s perspective (I spent five years teaching high school). I also tried the political perspective and the psychological perspective. The more perspectives that I try to see, the more I write and then I only end up with more unanswered questions. Finally, I decided to scrap all of the other points of view and focus solely on the parents’ perspective. My perspective. I want to think about what I have done and will continue to do with my children. My ultimate hope is…