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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 |
Finding the right physician for your family is one of the most important decisions you will make. Parents must find physicians for the adults in the family, a pediatrician for their children, and spets if anyone needs specialized care for underlying ailments. All of these pediatricians need to also be in your insurance network if…
Let’s just say I have some experience in this. A mother usually treasures the quiet moments in a busy household. I’ve come to fear them. Here are the best ways to get Boudreaux Butt-Paste out of everything. Seriously – as you can see in the picture, we had to find out the hard way! For…
DIY Balloon Drum Supplies: large empty metal can large balloon rice packing tape scissors two unsharpened pencils. Instructions: 1. Cut the end off of the balloon 2. Stretch the balloon tightly over the open top of the metal can and secure with packing tape 3. Play the drum with the eraser-end of the pencils. Do you…
Telltale Signs of Poor Vision in Children Keeping your child healthy is a huge undertaking. A parent’s concern goes from the foods they eat to the exercise they receive. One important area that must not be left off the check list is your child’s vision. Healthy eyes and vision are a critical part of child’s…
By: Ann Shepherd The Science of Snowflakes The story of a snowflake begins with water vapor in the air. Evaporation from oceans, lakes, and rivers and transpiration from plants puts water vapor into the air. Every time you exhale, you put water vapor into the air! When air cools down, the water vapor it holds…
Moving & Learning By Kris Meyers, M.Ed. Did you know that young children today are less physically active than ever before? Physical activity plays an important role in early brain development. In fact, young brains grow best when children are able to move and interact with the world around them “Research suggests young children can…
Robert Chappell Jr. is no stranger to criminal activity. After working in law enforcement for 27 years, and most recently as a criminal investigator with Virginia State Police, Mr. Chappell started to notice that the trends towards “schemes and scams” of identity theft began to morph from a crime against adults into an offense directed…
You’d better believe it! As early as the 1980’s, audiologists (spets in testing hearing) began noticing hearing loss in folks using the Walkman and other portable music devices which utilized ear phones. A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2010 warned that nearly 1 in 5 adolescents between the ages…
During the latter part of 2009, full-time physicians and mothers Cheri Wiggins and Lennox McNeary-Keyes found themselves living on the same street, working in the same department, and struggling to nurse their new babies amidst the stress of their long work days. Little did they know that these seemingly coincidental commonalities would start them…
For many years, we have all been used to hearing that children were having less and less dental decay. Fluoride had become the norm in our toothpastes and our water supplies. The economy was expanding, and dental insurance was available to numerous families with young children. Public awareness of good oral health and hygiene…
