As her three kids politely opened their presents on Christmas morning, Emily Lewis-Hunter lamented that they don't get excited like they used to. ...more

December 26, 2009

Toys for Kids, a program at the University Area Community Development Corp. gives a helping hand to working parents who couldn't otherwise afford to buy Christmas presents for the kids. ...more

December 25, 2009

The creators of the "Got Milk?" campaign are getting ready to make a big push to keep chocolate milk on children's minds and on school lunch menus, a plan that has some educators and obesity activists none too pleased. ...more

November 9, 2009

Take a closer look the next time you pack a school lunch. What's inside that lunchbox may not be as healthy as you think. ...more

February 4, 2009

Parents: Take a closer look the next time you pack a school lunch. What's inside that lunch box may not be as healthy as you think. ...more

February 3, 2009

Nutritional information helps parents decide what's healthy and what's not, whether their kids are brown bagging it or buying food at school. ...more

February 3, 2009

Believe it or not, an alarm clock can change a child's life trajectory. Don't buy that? Well, before you discount the suggestion, check out Janine Walker Caffrey's book, "Drive: Nine Ways to Motivate Your Kids to Achieve," which has been generating a lot of buzz lately. ...more

January 3, 2009

I could scarcely believe my eyes while reading Mr. Whiteman's column titled "Bigotry Outnumbered This Election Season." He obviously does not include himself in the group of those overcome. He states "We must pray that this is not the first jihad in the United States." Jihad? The U.S. population electing a Christian man as president of the United States is a jihad? What is this person thinking? Was he thinking the unspoken, that Mr. Obama is really a Muslim and therefore the Jihad connection? How bigoted! And how can your newspaper print such rubbish? His mistaken notion of what the Democratic Party stands for is up to him. But it is more of a statement of how limited his knowledge really is rather than accurate. ...more

November 9, 2008

You don't need to be a true gourmet to pack kids' lunches that look the part. ...more

November 2, 2008

School's started. It's that no-time-to-do-anything time of year again. ...more

August 20, 2008