It’s not just your littlest ones who need to be properly secured when riding in a car. Children ages 4 to 8 are often at risk because they inhabit a limbo where they are too big for a car seat, but too small for a seat belt to fit securely. In fact, Lorrie Walker, technical [...]
Archive for April, 2005
Boost your kids’ safety in the car
Thursday, April 7th, 2005New shot sticks it to deadly disease
Thursday, April 7th, 2005The meningitis vaccine isn’t just for college kids any more. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has endorsed a new meningitis vaccine that can be given to children as young as 11, and for the first time a CDC panel has recommended the vaccine for all college freshmen living in dormitories. Menactra, the new vaccine [...]
Changes are afoot at Baltimore’s zoo
Thursday, April 7th, 2005The Baltimore Zoo doesn’t exist any more. Now when visitors head to the Druid Hill Park institution, they will be visiting The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore _ and the name’s not the only thing changing this year. When visitors walk through the front gate, they won’t proceed down the Main Valley where the snow leopards, [...]
Let’s Dish! makes meal time easy
Thursday, April 7th, 2005How would you like to pull a sumptuous meal out of the freezer, heat it up and serve a dinner fit for a king? Now you can, and Stouffer’s is not involved. At Let’s Dish! in Timonium you can put together as many as 12 meals _ things like rosemary and mustard beef roast or [...]
A $10 gerbil, an $80 vet bill and one priceless lesson
Thursday, April 7th, 2005There was plenty of excitment in the Clemens household last election day, but it had nothing to do with exit polls or absentee ballots. That morning my 9-year-old Lucy awoke to find one of her gerbils, Mr. Whiskers, was huddled, unmoving, in his cage. He was alive, but he was cold and trembling and refused [...]
Fresh Air FUN
Thursday, April 7th, 2005Leave your inside voice at home and come explore the great outdoors. Roam a ruin, walk in a garden park, get to know exotic creatures, sneak a peek at a beaver’s dam or leap-frog yourself silly near a fabulous harbor view. Our area has a multitude of outdoor choices for your family to celebrate the [...]
Birthday parties that are a piece of cake
Thursday, April 7th, 2005When it comes to birthday parties, I have absolutely no creativity. I let my children pick the traditional character theme, grab a pin the tail on the donkey game and steal the craft idea from the last party my kids attended. I have a friend, however, who is the birthday party queen. She’s always got [...]
What’s up doc?
Thursday, April 7th, 2005Several of my friends and their families have had scarlet fever this year. I thought that was something from history books. What is it, and isn’t it very dangerous? Have there been more cases of it this year than usual? How contagious is it, and is there anything we can do to keep from getting [...]
Home Sick
Thursday, April 7th, 2005When Andy and Amy Joy had their basement checked for mold in 2003, the results were frightening. “They came out, took their readings, and called us like a week later and said ‘whatever you do, don’t go in your basement,’” recalled Amy Joy. The next day, the Joys and their 1-year-old daughter moved out of [...]