Most parents do it each day, pack a healthy school lunch in a soft vinyl lunch box. They may be packing lead, a hazardous metal, for lunch as well. The Center for Environmental Health rang the school bell last year when 150 soft vinyl lunch boxes were tested and 10 percent contained high lead levels. [...]

If your daughter is an American Girl fan, consider adding the new “School Smarts Planner” and “School Smarts Homework Survival Guide: The Skills and Stuff you Need to Succeed” to her backpack this fall. The 61-page “School Smarts Planner” will stimulate the mind and organize the thoughts of any reader using creative ideas and advice [...]

What better way to beat the August heat than to spend the evening watching local ice skating star Kimmie Meissner and a whole crew of champion skaters perform. And best of all, it’s free! Maryland Family has a limited number of tickets to Kimmie’s Angels on Ice, Aug. 25 at 7 p.m. at 1st Mariner [...]

Tired of reading the same stories to your children for hours on end? Try reading them in French. Thanks to Zakiyyah Weaver and her partnership with Port Discovery, the Children’s Museum in Baltimore, parents and children now have the opportunity to read, sing and play games in foreign languages at the museum. Through December, Weaver [...]

This summer you can take the kids to explore Maryland’s history through the eyes of young schoolgirls who lived over 250 years ago. An exhibition at the Maryland Historical Society Museum in Baltimore, “Maryland Schoolgirl Samplers and Embroideries, 1738-1860,” features over 100 samples of needlework created by young ladies from all walks of life. Guest [...]

For most American students, buying school supplies is as easy as a quick trip to the local store. Students in Israel, on the other hand, often can’t find school supplies or when they do, they are exorbitantly priced. But this year supplies were no worry for students of the Hakrayot Masorti Congregation in Kiryat Bialik, [...]