Driver’s Education is Boring
Driver’s education is boring for everyone involved, but it’s essential for students to learn how to drive safely. No one wants to be on the freeway next to someone who slept through the class teaching [Read More]
Article Category: Parenting
Five Reasons to Get Your Kids Outside to Play
Today’s kids typically spend several hours a day immersed in low-sensory, pixelated landscapes rather than outdoors playing in the mud, climbing trees, examining bugs, rolling down hills or making up games. As a consequence, kids [Read More]
Juggling Extracurricular Activities
School mornings are busy, but an experienced mom knows the real rush is after school when the evening is packed with extracurricular activities. One child has scouts, another has piano lessons, and two have soccer [Read More]
Birth Order: Payoffs and Pitfalls
Birth order is a concept that suggests children of a particular family position share some of the same experiences, which may cause them to take on similar attributes. But is it a valid theory? And [Read More]
Opportunities to Serve with Your Kids
When children have the opportunity to serve in their community, they develop a desire to help others and make a difference. Not only do they become more aware of others who are less fortunate, they [Read More]
Is School at Home the Same as Homeschooling?
When parents heard for the first time that their children’s schools would be shuttered and that schoolwork must be completed remotely, they became homeschoolers overnight. Or did they? Is homeschooling simply doing your schoolwork at [Read More]
You’re Invited to Join the Girl Scouts!
Though much of the school year looks very different for children across Alabama this fall, Girl Scouting is still here and stronger than ever. The Girl Scouts of North-Central Alabama invites parents and guardians of [Read More]
October is National Bullying Prevention Month!
In 2006, PACER Center started a groundbreaking movement to raise awareness about the devastating impact and often long-term effects that bullying can cause in our nation’s youth. The result was PACER’s creation of National Bullying [Read More]
Why 3D Technology Can Affect Your Child’s Vision
3D images are sharper, clearer, and have an added dimension that makes them appear closer than they would in real life. By viewing 3D images, the normal function of your eye changes. To view a [Read More]
Seeking Summer Fun? Don’t Skimp on Sunscreen
When it comes to sunscreen, you can never apply too much, says dermatologist Lauren Kole, M.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham. It is estimated one in five Americans will develop skin cancer, according to the American [Read More]