These books celebrate diversity and encourage learning. Explore stories about kids with disabilities of all kinds for Disability Pride Month in July. Families will discover new perspectives, foster acceptance and support positive views of self with readers in every age group. Board Books “Can Bears Ski?” by Raymond Antrobus and …
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Advocate for Adoption Competency
Family relationships can be complicated. Families that come together through foster care, guardianship and adoption often experience added layers of complexity. One constant for all these families is the experience of loss. For some children and their parents and caregivers, these losses loom large, creating significant challenges. Families often …
Read More »Pet-Palooza!
We love when our readers send us photos of their furry family members. Here are some of the recent photos we’ve received. Keep ’em coming. You can send your photos to [email protected] for our next Pet-Palooza! Not enough cuteness for you? OK, here are a few more …
Read More »A Place That Nurtures
About 80 percent of the maternity cases seen at University of Maryland Medical Center’s labor and delivery unit are high risk. Parents there are often understandably anxious, and for this reason, medical personnel and caregivers take special care to make them feel welcome. This past fall, the hospital opened a …
Read More »Desperately Seeking Dryness
Bedwetting is an issue many parents deal with, yet few discuss. They may fear violating their child’s privacy or feel that others will criticize their parenting, or maybe they wrestle with their own feelings of concern and frustration. It can be isolating. The American Academy of Pediatrics says that five …
Read More »Safety Zone
The air is getting cooler, and the holidays are just around the corner. If you are anything like me, you cannot wait to put a few logs on the fire and enjoy lots of time celebrating with family and friends. However, before we jump into the cheer and excitement, it …
Read More »Family Ties
In late 1989, Jamie Roeder’s father won a contest at a fall fundraiser for The Children’s Guild. The prize: Roeder and her sister were photographed for the January 1990 cover of Baltimore’s Child. Roeder recalls a photographer coming to their Catonsville home and the two girls tossing confetti for the …
Read More »No Babysitting Zone
One of the worst things a parent can say is that they have to babysit their kids. They are YOUR kids, so there is no babysitting. It’s called spending time with your own children. Mostly, I hear this from mothers, who say their husbands call it “babysitting.” If they really …
Read More »I am ‘This Mama’
People are blown away by my son Danny’s verbal acumen. He chose to talk at an early age and hasn’t stopped since. At his 18-month checkup, his pediatrician asked how many words he knew and all I could say was, “A lot!” A year later, Danny is as articulate and …
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