Glenwood Community Center To register for activities at the Glenwood Community Center: by phone — 410-313-4840 — or online — www.howardcountymd.gov/rap or by mail — Director of Finance, Glenwood Community Center, 2400 Route 97, Cooksville, MD 21723 Saturday Night at…
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Baskin Robbins 31 Cent Scoop Night…Be There!
Visit your local Baskin Robbins on Wednesday, April 29th from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Musings on TV Watching by Toddlers
Adventure Boy — aged around 2 — in our family room/playroom. You can see the train table in the window for our Thomas the Tank Engine fan. I responded to a HARO request about TV viewing of toddlers. The perfect…
WE CAN! Giveaway
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to the launch of the WE CAN! joint initiative of NIH_and_Subway. To recap…NIH stands for National Institutes of Health Subway is that great sandwich shop with Jared Fogle as the spokesperson. If…
DrWeigh.com: Giveaway!
A few weeks ago I met Dr. Joanna Dolgoff at the Subway/NIH We Can! PEP Rally. Dr. Dolgoff runs an Online Weight Management Program for Children and Teens called DrWeigh.com. Dr. Dolgoff’s Weigh is a traffic-light based nutrition plan in…
Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers…just writing it down makes me cringe. I’m four for zero for joining WW. Joined in the 80s, 90s, and I *think* 2000. At my best I lost 10 pounds. At my worst I went for weeks without losing…
April 20-26 — National TV Turn-Off Week
Without TV to watch, a kid, a preteen, and a teen might have fun playing with the box that the TV came in! Did you know that tomorrow is the first day of National TV Turn-Off Week. It goes through…
Sports Parenting Made Easy: T-Ball
So, your child is playing t-ball for the first time. Maybe this is your first time as the mom or dad of a sports player. Take it from me…you are in for a good experience. I’ve said it before and…
C-Sections: 5 Years Later
I posted recently on my first c-section in 1996. The c-section was unexpected. Do I have regrets? Not really. Do I wish I had natural childbirth? Not really, because I feel strongly that I was meant to have a c-section.…
Williamsburg — It Never Gets Old to Me
May Day, May Day! Tired, cranky 2-year-old in need of a nap sitting by the maze at the Palace Gardens! Noncranky, perfectly contented 2-year-old taking a ride on the bus — his favorite part of the trip by a country…