Category: 2012_March
Follow the West Yellowstone Road…
Fourth grade is a transformational year, and not just for the fourth grader. Interests become passions, or obsessions, and innocent questions about the school day become quizzes — for the parents. Quizzes to see what we know, and more often, expose what we don’t know. And so it began in our house with a 10-year-old [...]
Unconventional Pit Stops for Car Travel with Young Kids
It’s nice to have a few surprises up your sleeve when you’re traveling by car with kids. For active, young kids who are usually on the move and don’t fully grasp the concept of time (hence the “Are we there yet?” refrain every 5 minutes), you need more than little toys, books, DVDs and games. [...]
Wishes Really Do Come True
The Make-A-Wish Foundation® grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. Founded in 1980 when a group of caring volunteers helped a young boy fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer, the Foundation is one of the world’s leading children’s charities, with 64 [...]
Unbreakable China: An Interview with China Forbes
China Forbes, front woman of world-renowned, Portland-based band Pink Martini, is many things. She’s smart (Harvard graduate), beautiful, has a voice like silk and is mommy to a curious, musically inclined
Girl Scouts Celebrate 100th Birthday
Juliette Gordon Low couldn’t have known in 1912, as she gathered 18 girls for the first Girl Scout meeting, that 100 years later her concept for a girl-centered organization would grow to more than 3 million
Self-Determination at Summer Camp
Parents spend a lot of time trying to motivate kids. We use chore charts, checklists, reminders and rewards to get them to feed the dog, clean their rooms, and complete schoolwork. But these techniques
Saddle Up Special Family Time
at Rancho de los Caballeros
There is something incredibly peaceful about the Sonoran Desert in Arizona; the vast solitude of turquoise skies, painted by occasionally drifting, white, puffy clouds, and the quirky presence of dozens of towering
Andy Nelson of Hands On Portland
Andy Nelson, Executive Director of Hands on Portland, chats with Janna Lopez at the Heart of the Community Awards sponsored by the Portland Trailblazers.
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