Establishing and building a business is one of the most exciting, intense and stressful experiences life has to offer—and you can say the same about establishing and building a family. So is it possible to do both at once without losing your mind? Might there even be advantages to growing a business at the same […]
Establishing and building a business is one of the most exciting, intense and stressful experiences life has to offer—and you can say the same about establishing and building a family. So is it possible to do both at once without losing your mind? Might there even be advantages to growing a business at the same […]
You’ve probably seen those articles—the ones that spell out exactly how many hours of sleep children should get at each developmental stage and thus terrify you into thinking you’re a terrible parent if your first-grader isn’t getting exactly 10 hours. Local neurologist and sleep medicine doctor Chris Winter advises parents to take those numbers with […]
For a town that’s both fitness- and family-oriented, there don’t seem to be many local gyms that offer to take care of your little ones while you sweat it out. There are obviously plenty of all-day and half-day child care options in Charlottesville, but for stay-at-home parents who just need an hour on a mat […]
Reading with children before bedtime is a great way to connect with your kids and establish a routine. But creating a household in which reading is valued can benefit your child in a variety of ways, especially when it comes to their attitude toward reading and their knowledge base. Dr. Daniel Willingham, professor of psychology […]
For Ali and Jim Harshaw, there was only one way to address their home’s formal living room: Hand it over to the kids. “I really wanted an area that would bring us together as a family and the kids together,” Ali says, so they turned it into a playroom for their four children—Jesse, 10, Wyatt, […]
After almost 20 years as a teacher, Joseph Hicks knows a thing or two about kids. And it’s that knowledge that led him to write Paige and Sophie: Soccer Twins, a children’s book about two soccer-playing sisters who are identical on the outside but very different inside. Paige, a natural athlete, struggles in school, while […]
Twenty-four tykes sit on the stoop of St. Paul’s Church on the Corner, dutifully clutching their Chancellor Street totes, as Bodo’s-bound undergrads stream by. Just before noon, one by one, teachers Heather Swindler or Pam Evans (who prefer kids don’t call them “Ms.”) escort each student to his parent’s idling vehicle, buckles him into his […]
Maddie Waters has something to say. But rather than hold forth in a classroom or the school cafeteria, the Western Albemarle High School freshman is taking her message to a bigger stage and a larger audience as a TEDx speaker at the Paramount Theater on Friday, November 13. The 14-year-old, who will be among heady […]
It sounds crazy, but when Eula, 9, and Lilah Tobias, 7, (pictured) get home from school each day, their dog, Mabel, actually smiles. “The girls are careful to time their entering of the house so that they can both see it,” says their mom, Lisa. The family got the beagle/basset hound mix (and their cat, […]
I doubt anybody would describe me as physically imposing, but at the risk of tooting my own horn, I do feel confident in my ability to lift a house cat onto an exam table. So when my back strains and I slip loose an involuntary “ungh” as I haul the grudging feline patient off the floor, […]