BLOGS
Adventure Us: Roanoke area day trips, Part I
By Cristy Carr |
Virginia’s Native Allspice
By Tim Carr |
Roaming Roanoke: Little Green Hive
By Angela Evans |
The 5-Minute Answer: What is Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)?
By Marissa Siegel |
How the New Normal Brought Back Family Dinners
By Kristy Wyatt |
OT in the Community: Preparing for Halloween by Lauren Pittard There is so much excitement around this time of year related to costumes, home decorations, and sweet treats. However, some children are scared of the holiday — and not just because of the ghosts and witches. Halloween is a time of year that can…
by Takoda Poindexter Mill Mountain Theatre presents the play The Glass Menagerie for all who love classics! With David Federman as Jim and Lauren Wainwright as Laura, the play is a glassy hit! Playwright Tennessee Williams set the story in St. Louis in 1937. The Glass Menagerie is a memory play, and its action is…
The last bell has rung, the afternoon snack’s been eaten, and the homework has been finished. Now what? TV? Video games? How about something completely different? Here are our top ten after-school activities to make the most of the time between bus drop-off and dinnertime. Make a lava lamp. My son loved…
BY NICOLE DEAN The other day, someone asked me what it’s like to be a work-at-home mom. I just blinked back at him, my mind blank. How could I possibly describe life as a work-at-home mom? Only someone who’s lived it can understand the juggling act it requires. Work-at-home moms have the usual responsibilities of being…
by Amy Webb Research on moral development in toddlers offers us amazing insight into how perceptive young children really are . . . and what it means for our social interactions. We, as parents, all want to encourage the moral development of our children. From a young age, we teach our children to help other…
Top Ten Kid-Friendly Albums You’ll Actually Like! The Lucky Band – Buenos Diaz Latin GRAMMY and Emmy Award-winning family media heroes Lucky Diaz and Alisha Gaddis present Buenos Diaz, a bilingual family celebration. It’s a retro-modern-vintage Space Age adventure, complete with electric guitars, drums, brass, kazoos, and toy pianos. People magazine called it “The #1…
Pools, beach, parks, camping, hiking — summer is a LOT about getting outside and enjoying the warm weather, but that’s not ALL it is. There are definitely times when a retreat into the delicious AC is called for. The problem that arises, if your family is anything like mine, is what I call the Indoor…
14 acres of The Best Day EVER. What makes Kings Dominion’s Planet Snoopy so much fun for kids? Three BIG things! The RIDES! There are 20 amazing rides for kiddos and their families. For example, as soon as you step foot into the magical Peanuts-themed section of the park,…
by Sandra Pratt H ppy summer! C n y u elieve it is finally here? I c n remem er the excitement f summer v c ti n like it w s yesterd y. Do you notice anything weird in the previous sentences? I bet you were thinking, “Wow, someone did NOT proofread that well.”…
