It’s not too late to take advantage of the Family Value Winter Getaway package at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay in Cambridge.
For $99 a night Sunday through Friday and $149 on Saturdays, families can can take advantage of all the amenities on this 342-acre retreat on the Choptank River — including a number of complimentary [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Plan a winter getaway
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009March Hot Dates
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009Birding for Kids
Take a hike with a park ranger and learn the basics of birding such as where to look, what to listen for and how to identify birds March 28. Bring good hiking shoes and water. Birding books and binoculars optional. All ages welcome. The hike will be one and a half miles or [...]
Welcome to My Maryland Family blog
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Hey! Welcome to My Maryland Family blog. We at Maryland Family magazine hope this will be a great opportunity to stay in closer contact with our readers. If you have ever read one of my editor’s notes — you know that I love to share about what’s going on with my crew, the good, the [...]
Editor’s note: Why I need to stop seeing red when my kids act green
Monday, February 23rd, 2009I have three children who think the floor is a clothes hamper and believe dirty dishes magically jump from the sink into the dishwasher (when they make it from the table to the sink, that is).
Yet these same kids will scream bloody murder if they see me (in a moment of forgetfulness or blind multitasking) [...]
Recess helps kids perform better
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Students who get recess behave better in school, according to a recent study published in Pediatrics.
Researchers studied an equal number of girls and boys nationally ages 8 to 9 and found that a break of 15 minutes or more was associated with better classroom behavior as judged by the teachers, according to the study.
“Many schoolchildren [...]
Green Kids
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Dennis and Nathan Mason like worms.
They like the way they feel when they wiggle in their hands, they like to watch them slither into a pile of dirt and they really like to see the looks on their friends’ faces when the brothers tell them they keep worms in their house.
But the worms in the [...]
Growing little gardeners
Monday, February 23rd, 2009When Robyn Alvarez of Lutherville moved to a new home recently, she was faced with an unexpected challenge: how to maintain the gardens surrounding the home with her 1-year-old daughter, Sofia, in tow.
“I decided to try sitting her in the garden while I worked,” says Alvarez. “She actually enjoyed just digging holes and getting dirty.”
This [...]
Bounce back with baby
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Kate Blankenship has the abdomen you dream about — the flat, toned one that doesn’t look like it’s ever been tempted by chocolate or stretched by pregnancy.
Quite frankly, the other moms at the mall with Blankenship this particular morning say, if she wasn’t so nice, if she wasn’t trying to help them get skinny and in shape, they’d be more than a little jealous.
“You want to hate her,” Liz Minkin-Friedman, a mother of three from Pikesville, says, laughing as she tries to keep up with the Stroller Strides class that Blankenship leads.
Held in at local malls in the winter and in parks during the warmer months, the Stroller Strides classes include the elements that health experts say make for a successful postpartum work-out:
Lights, camera, action… Cut!
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Sponge Bob Square Pants, he’s that funny little cartoon sea sponge that any kid would love to watch on television, right? Not necessarily.
His cartoon often includes adult-oriented humor that can be confusing to young children, many of whom have a hard time separating fact from fantasy.
This is just a snippet of what www.commonsensemedia.org has to [...]
Balancing the needs of everyone
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 It started with what we naively thought of as “anger issues” with our oldest son.
But when Adam was still throwing major tantrums at 6, we decided to talk to a counselor about his behavior. Though it was helpful for me, it didn’t help him much so we stopped. A year later, he started having [...]