A runny nose shouldn’t keep a toddler home from the child care center, but a survey of child care center directors found many do not follow national guidelines and regularly send home a children with only a mild illness. The study “Unnecessary Child Care Exclusions in a State That Endorses National Exclusion Guidelines” was published [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Too many mildly ill kids sent home from preschool
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010The last day of June?
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010This blog was written by my co-editor Cheryl Clemens: Really? I can’t believe tomorrow is July. July is the middle of summer. It’s lazy days at the pool and Fourth of July picnics. I know the kids got out of school late this year, but it feels to me like it should only be mid-June. [...]
Nursing tot
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Here is a sweet take on a serious issue from Momlogic.com. I remember my daughter breastfeeding her twin baby dolls when I was nursing my twins. We were in the safety of home at the time and away from scrutinizing eyes.
Special programs at Aquarium make sure all visitors are welcome
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010There’s no limit to how much fun family members and friends with special needs can have at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, thanks to innovative services and programs they’ve developed. The Access Aquarium Program offers year-round accessibility for visitors with disabilities in order to ensure the best experience for all. This includes providing audio equipment, [...]
Girlfriends are healthy
Monday, June 28th, 2010Check out this e-mail I received from a friend. Subject: girlfriends and their importance……….. An evening class at Stanford, the last lecture was on the mind-body connection–the relationship between stress and disease. The speaker (head of psychiatry at Stanford) said, among other things, that one of the best things that a man could do for [...]
Dear Mom: Please send socks!
Monday, June 28th, 2010Four years ago, when Stephanie Ahern of Baltimore sent her then 9-year-old son off to a seven-week summer camp in the Poconos for the first time, she learned a very important lesson. You can never pack too many socks. “They have a way of disappearing, so now I send 24 pairs,” she laughs. For her [...]
Family fun day at Montpelier Mansion
Friday, June 25th, 2010Explore the grounds of Montpelier Mansion, play games, do a craft and dress up in old-fashioned clothes at Family Fun Day on June 27 from 4 to 6 p.m. Visitors are also welcome to have a picnic dinner on the grounds (but have a rain plan because there are no indoor eating facilities at the [...]
Annual Clarksville picnic this weekend
Friday, June 25th, 2010Take part in one of Howard County’s oldest traditions on June 26 when the 132nd Clarksville Picnic takes place from noon to 9 a.m. at St. Louis Church. There will be live music, arts and crafts, bingo, pony rides, face painting, children’s games, a magician, clogging, hay rides, a white elephant sale, plant sale, a [...]
Blueberries blueberries
Friday, June 25th, 2010This blog was written by my co-editor Cheryl Clemens: Early July means many things in my house: Fireworks and Fourth of July, lazy days at the neighborhood pool, ice pops and hot dogs on the grill. But the most important of all is blueberries. We try to get to Larriland Farm and pick enough berries [...]
See giant chompers at dentistry museum family day
Thursday, June 24th, 2010See a prehistoric shark’s tooth as big as a baseball glove at “Jaws and Paws” — a special family festival devoted to animals and their unique choppers at the National Museum of Dentistry — on June 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Animal experts from the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore will be on hand [...]