Peanut butter and jelly, potato chips, carrots and milk. Peanut butter and jelly, potato chips, carrots and milk. Peanut butter and jelly … Opening my lunch box was never an occasion to celebrate when I was in school. In fact, I was a lot like Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day,” reliving the same lunch over [...]
Archive for September, 2005
Inside the box
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005Early Start wtih ART
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005Want your kids to love art, science and history? Here are some programs at local museums that are sure to lure your kids into a lifelong appreciation of learning. Most Baltimore museums maintain fully staffed education departments to design fun, interactive activities for families. Scavenger hunts, art projects, craft activities, special tours and science experiments [...]
Going the Distance
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005Parents pay the price for their young athletes on travel teams
A gifted man
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005At 86, Julian Stanley shows no signs of slowing down. Known as the “father” of gifted and talented (GT) education throughout America and indeed the world, every night at 10, Stanley hops on the treadmill and walks a couple of miles while catching up on the days’ news on CNN. He still presents papers and [...]
Mitzvah Magic
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005For many parents, planning for a bar or bat mitzvah — that rite of passage for Jewish 13-year-olds — is a lot like planning for a wedding, and it can be just as stressful and expensive. For the young teen, that moment of standing on the bima and reading from the torah in Hebrew is [...]
Going the Distance
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005When your kid is on a travel team, you do just that – travel, be it day trips for a beltway league or two-night stays for an out-of-town tournament. Parents quickly learn that weekends mean attending games, not attending to yard work or other chores. Vicki Franz, publisher of Mason-Dixon Arrive magazine and mom to [...]
Molding family matters out of clay
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005“Family Matters” this month at Baltimore Clayworks. The nonprofit ceramic art center in Mt. Washington is hosting a national exhibition called “Family Matters” from Sept. 1 to Oct. 9, and offering families the chance to create their own works of art. The exhibition features 38 functional and sculptural clay artists juried by Ohio couple and [...]
The zoo hopes to hear pattering of little elephant feet
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005The stork may be planning a visit to the elephant pen at The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. Dolly, one of the zoo’s two African elephants, was artificially inseminated in July and soon a blood test and ultrasound will confirm if she is pregnant. This was the first artificial insemination attempt for Dolly, who is 29 [...]
Calling all kids, it’s Elmo on the phone
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005What would tickle a child more than a call from Elmo? Now it’s possible to arrange for Elmo to call your child to wish him a happy birthday, sing him the alphabet or tell him a bedtime story. There are more than 100 different calls to choose from when you visit www.sesameworkshop.org. Each call costs [...]
Boost your kids’ safety in the car
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005Now is a good time to have your child’s safety seat checked. September has been named Child Passenger Safety Month by the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA). As part of NADA’s “Boost for Safety” campaign, new car dealers across the country will host child safety seat inspections to make sure they are properly installed. The [...]