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Category: Holidays, Past Articles, Summer // Posted on August 30, 2009 // Leave a Comment
By Anna Seip
Dear Parent:
Several months ago, I started a new job as the editor at a small college. The human resources manager handed me a list of the employee holidays I’d receive as a new employee.
“We don’t get Labor Day off,” she said, “but you can certainly take a vacation day then.”
Category: Autism, Education, Health and Safety, Past Articles // Posted on August 30, 2009 // Leave a Comment
By Emily Puro
Our September 2009 issue contains an in-depth feature titled “Living With Autism” which focuses on the various treatments area families have employed to help their children on the autism spectrum. The following short articles are supplemental to that piece (all articles were written by Emily Puro):
Category: Education, Past Articles // Posted on August 2, 2009 // Leave a Comment
By Ted Feinberg and Katherine C. Cowan
Getting a new school year off to a good start can influence children’s attitudes, confidence and performance both socially and academically. But the transition from August to September can be difficult for both children and parents. Even children who are eager to return to class must adjust to the greater levels of activity, structure and, for some, pressures associated with school life.
Category: Education, Humor, Parenting, Past Articles // Posted on August 2, 2009 // Leave a Comment
By Anna Seip
It’s the first day of middle school, and I’m sharing the only bathroom in the house with a tween. This is not going to work, I can already tell. My 12-year-old son sprays a cloud of cologne. It’s the “scent of California,” he told me. The smell is like limes left over after a party. Puberty has barely begun in my house, and I’m already tired of it. This time last year, I was begging him to take a shower once a week. Now all of a sudden, he’s asking for acne cream and deodorant. I make a mental note to get an estimate to build a half-bath in the basement.
Category: Health and Safety, Parenting, Past Articles, Teens // Posted on August 2, 2009 // Leave a Comment
Take time to educate your kids about the dangers of asking adults to buy alcohol for them
Submitted by Oregon Partnership and the Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
A guy in his mid-20s pulls into a convenience store parking lot and is approached by two teenage girls, who nervously ask him to buy alcoholic lemonade for them. The man obliges, emerging from the store a few minutes later with a couple of six-packs he hands to the kids.
Unfortunately, the scene is all too real, because most kids who consume alcohol – about 30 percent of 8th-graders and nearly half of 11th-graders say they have in the past month, according to a survey of Oregon schoolchildren – get it from adults, who either knowingly or unknowingly supply it.
