You’ve gotta love snopes.com – that quick, at-your-fingertips method of filtering out those questionable e-mails you receive (especially during campaigning season). But you’ve also gotta read the entire snopes entry… More…

Category: Metro Parent // Posted on October 30, 2008 // Leave a Comment

Between school and sports and friends and work, e-mails fly back and forth, often leaving little time to give each topic a second thought. So it struck me as noteworthy when a recent exchange among the parents on my son’s soccer team took an unexpected turn toward the thoughtful and thought-provoking. More…

Category: Metro Parent // Posted on October 29, 2008 // Leave a Comment

Portland readers have a fool-proof, no-brainer, win-win way to vote for children in this election: Voting yes on Measure 26-94, the renewal of the Children’s Investment Fund. More…

Category: Metro Parent // Posted on October 28, 2008 // Leave a Comment

While every presidential election is serious business, this particular election strikes many of us as singularly fateful for the future of the country – and especially for children and families. More…

Category: Metro Parent // Posted on October 27, 2008 // 1 Comment

We ruffled a few feathers with this piece in our October issue. The main – okay, the only – complaint was that we covered a couple of moms who were volunteering for Barack Obama’s campaign but that we didn’t include any parents involved with the McCain campaign. More…

Category: Metro Parent // Posted on October 22, 2008 // Leave a Comment

Homework. My son refuses to do his, and my daughter is a perfectionist about it. She started working on her book report before it was even officially assigned! Four weeks before it was due, she was already worried that she wouldn’t have enough time to finish it. More…

Category: Metro Parent // Posted on October 20, 2008 // 1 Comment

I know it’s really fall when I see that giant red apple floating high above the Portland Nursery. It’s Apple Festival time! More…

Category: Metro Parent // Posted on October 12, 2008 // Leave a Comment

This sounds like a great primer on parenting for freshly-minted moms and dads and parents-to-be. Lasting Relationships is presenting a two-day workshop titled “Bringing Baby Home” on Oct. 11 and 18 (9 am to 4 pm each day) at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital, 1015 NW 22nd Ave. More…

Category: Metro Parent // Posted on October 8, 2008 // Leave a Comment

Pump up your tires and polish your sneakers for Oregon Walk + Bike to School Day! This Wednesday, Oct. 8, is actually called International Walk to School Day, in which over 42 countries are expected to participate. But because we’re so enamored with bikes here in our part of the world, Oregon officially added them to the mix a few years back. More…

Category: Metro Parent // Posted on October 6, 2008 // Leave a Comment

As usual, the metropolitan area is teeming with cool stuff to do on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Consider the following (you’ll find many more event possibilities on our Family Calendar pages):
All weekend:
World Animal Festival at the Oregon Zoo. Explore different cultures with music, dance, storytelling, crafts and more. 9 am to 4 pm Oct. 3, 4 and 5. Free with admission of $9.75 adults, $6.75 ages 3 to 11, free 2 and under. $2 to park. 4001 SW Canyon Road. 503-226-1561. www.oregonzoo.org. More…

Category: Metro Parent // Posted on October 3, 2008 // Leave a Comment

If you’ve read Corduroy (by Don Freeman) – and most parents have – then you, no doubt, love the story of the little department store bear who goes looking for his missing button (and, eventually, finds a home). On Thursday, Oct. 2, thousands of parents, kids, librarians and teachers around the country will be re-acquainting themselves with Corduroy, hoping to set a world record for the most people reading the same book on the same day (Read for the Record Day). More…

Category: Metro Parent // Posted on October 1, 2008 // Leave a Comment