By Laurie Evans Recipe for a Fabulous Day: Take 2,500 happy visitors and add 300 free bottles of Sunbow sunscreen; stir together with 73 informative booths; mix in 18 Writing Contest winners; sprinkle with five costumed mascots, three American Girl dolls and top with one gorgeous cherry wood bunkbed. Lexington Family Magazine followed that recipe […]
When 9-year-old Konner Spalding of Versailles began playing bridge with her grandparents four years ago, her family didn’t anticipate the impact the game would have on her education.
Following the earthquake, tsunami and threat of nuclear meltdown in Japan, reports of iodine and its ability to shield the thyroid gland from radiation have cropped up in media accounts.
As an intern at Lexington Family Magazine, I was asked to identify an expert on re-decorating a child’s room. I thought about how often my room (and much of our house) had been re-decorated by my mother, Sharon Shea.
Charlie Chaplin won an Oscar — in Lexington just weeks before the Academy Awards were handed out this year in Los Angeles. Of course, this Charlie Chaplin is very much alive unlike the late silent screen star and Academy Award winner.
Many popular features of previous Grandparents As Parents conferences are available again this year – the ninth annual edition of this event. Scheduled for Thursday, March 24 at the Clarion Hotel (formerly the Holiday Inn North) at 1950 Newtown Pike, the conference runs from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Registration begins at 8 a.m.
Have you ever eaten something and wondered why you felt yucky the next day, or even later that day? Perhaps you have experienced severe allergic reactions in the past that made you quickly realize that your body did not tolerate a certain food.
Do you sometimes come home from a long day at work and complain about your boss? Who hasn’t? Don’t be surprised if soon one of your children complains about teachers. And this might lay the groundwork for an underachiever at school.
When the minister at her church used that slogan in a sermon about employing your passion as a way of helping others, DeLima knew it was time to forge ahead with her plans to offer a free summer horseback riding camp to kids from low-income families.
For most kids, summertime is a time of freedom, playing outside, running around the park, swimming in the pool. But for a child with a severe disability, summer can be a time of limitations. Swimming in a pool can be challenging when you sit in a wheelchair, and running around a park can be daunting when you have autism.
