Take your family’s heart health into your own hands with Life’s Essential 8—a checklist of healthy habits and measures that affect heart, brain and overall well-being for anyone age 2 and older. The American Heart Association’s checklist—now expanded for younger ages since its release more than a decade ago—is centered …
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Parent You Should Know: Tim Shotzberger
Tim Shotzberger, 46, is a father of two in more ways than one. He is the father of two children, a 14-year-old son, Wade, and a 12-year-old daughter, Abby. He is also the founder and president of both Home Land Environmental and Home Land Labs. The environmental testing …
Read More »Top 10 Family Events for March
Click the images below to open this calendar in our digital magazine. This roundup of family events appears in the March 2023 issue of Baltimore’s Child.
Read More »My Turn: The Power of Community
We’ve all heard the phrase it takes a village to raise a child. Well, sometimes it takes an entire community to support a village. When I was 19, I volunteered with a child battling cancer, and I quickly realized what a ripple effect the disease had on the entire family. …
Read More »Celebrate in March: 10 Stories of Resilience
By Stevia Morales, Children’s Instruction & Research Supervisor; and Carmen Jessop, Senior Teens’ Instructor & Research Specialist, at Howard County Library System; all book covers are provided by their publishers. March is here, and with it comes many celebrations. In these books, we honor St. Patrick’s Day and and Irish-American …
Read More »Spring Sport Safety: Keeping Your Kid Off the Bench
Staying active is an important part of staying healthy, and spring sports are a great way to keep your child on the move. However, there are risks involved. We spoke with Matthew Jepson, a sports medicine physician at The Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics, the second largest provider of orthopaedic care …
Read More »Growing Minds Through Outdoor Learning
Kids throughout the Baltimore area are back in classrooms after a years-long disruption that had them largely relying on screens. The pandemic gave schools and parents a new perspective on the impact of children’s environments on the learning process — and the changes being made now are a breath of …
Read More »How to Teach Your Kids Critical Thinking Skills
Kids are inundated with information on a daily basis. So how do they learn to distinguish facts from opinion, fiction and falsehoods? “Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve,” says Roger Lewin, Ph.D., a British anthropologist and science writer. Teaching kids to think critically …
Read More »How Art Illuminates Unsung Heroes in Education
When Terri Downey-Holton, a training specialist in food and nutrition services at Baltimore City Schools, was recognized in a special art exhibit, she felt understood. “To be a part of this, for someone to really acknowledge our work after all these years, is really important,” she says. “We’re finally appreciated, …
Read More »13 Crafts for Little Artists (That Aren’t a Pain to Clean Up)
I think there’s still glitter on my floor. From five years ago. Arts and crafts have a way of sticking around, and while I want to encourage creativity in my kids, I hate cleaning up the aftermath. Yes, we can make them clean up. I know. But seriously, do they …
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