For Lisa Zeimer’s two stepsons, the road to becoming vegetarians began during a cross-country family vacation. While passing pasture after pasture dotted with serenely grazing cows, the boys asked what eventually happens to them. The answer (and the shock it caused) prompted the boys, then 8 and 4, to rethink their eating habits. Most children [...]

R.J. Phillips cruises the halls of his school with an air of confidence uncommon in 13-year-olds. He frequently sports a tie, has a kind word for everyone he passes and a perennial smile. In fact, his friendly, outgoing demeanor has earned him the honorary title of “mayor” of Glenwood Middle School. If there’d been an [...]

Incorporating their children in their 2002 wedding was important to Susan and Brad Horsey of Columbia. So when the ship’s captain who married them asked “who gives this man and this woman?” Their four children chorused “We do!” With second and third marriages more prevalent these days, there’s a new wrinkle in wedding planning — [...]

Not every nanny is a Mary Poppins. In the past several years, referral agencies and investigators checking the backgrounds of potential nannies in the Baltimore area have turned up the following charges or incidents: bounced checks, drug possession, embezzling, prostitution and incest. “That was a hard one to explain away,” says Paula Henry, owner of [...]