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The Building Blocks to Kindergarten
Lawrence preschools are part of a statewide pre-kindergarten pilot program that some hope will eventually be available to all 4-year-olds in the state.
- Double Take: Don’t pry about friends’ grades
- November 3, 2009
- Teachers use a wide variety of threats to make their students be quiet, but nothing is as effective as the tense silence they create when they are about to hand tests back.
- Couple helps others grieve for lost babies
- November 1, 2009
- The kisses that 3-year-old Kaylee Pfrimmer left behind on her mother’s pregnant belly are now a distant memory.
- Newborn nightmares: Scary story contest winners craft spooky tales
- October 31, 2009
- We invited area students to concoct a Halloween story of 700 words or less that started with this spooky introduction: “‘That has to be the ugliest baby I’ve ever seen,’ I thought when I arrived at the Kendricks’ home to baby-sit their new infant …” We received more than 100 entries from participants, grouped in three divisions: elementary, junior high and high school. Here are the winning entries.
- The candy plan: Have a strategy to avoid overindulging in Halloween goodies
- October 28, 2009
- Occasionally, adventurous souls use Halloween as an excuse to find a gateway to hell.
- Double Take: Teens unfamiliar with laws could earn sex offender status
- October 27, 2009
- “Sex offender” — one of the five or six worst terms you could possibly hear applied to your child.
- Easy-to-make costumes suit budget
- October 27, 2009
- This Halloween, the only thing scarier than ghouls, ghosts and goblins is the economic forecast.
- Double Take: Teen daughter wants to date 21-year-old
- October 20, 2009
- Dear Dr. Wes and Samantha: I’m having a hard time knowing how to handle my daughter’s relationship.
- Keep Halloween safe with a few poison control tips
- October 20, 2009
- While Halloween is typically one of the highlights of a child’s year, it can be less fun for parents, who fret about everything from buying or making the right costume to the safety of the goodies in the trick or treat bag.
- Halloween craft project a monster hit
- October 20, 2009
- Straight from the breakfast table, here’s a craft that children can do to help decorate for Halloween night.
- KU festival connects students with authors
- October 19, 2009
- There comes a day every year when a handful students in grades six through 12 must walk up to their teachers to request the next class period’s homework assignment. The excuse? “I’m going to the Literature Festival at Kansas University.”
- Scary Story Contest submissions sought
- October 17, 2009
- The Journal-World is encouraging youths to enter its annual “Scary Story Contest.” The deadline is noon Monday.
- Teen dating norms broaden to new extremes
- October 13, 2009
- There are roughly two-and-a-half dating styles among teens and young adults right now.
- Day care next frontier in obesity battle
- October 13, 2009
- Grilled chicken replaced the hot dogs. Strawberries instead of cookies at snack time. No more fruit juice — water or low-fat milk only. This is the new menu at a Delaware day care center, part of a fledgling movement to take the fight against obesity to pudgy preschoolers.
- Double Take: Tips for teens making the case for abstinence
- October 6, 2009
- Your column talks a lot about kids deciding to have sex. What about if we have decided not to?
- Organize for college
- October 6, 2009
- Applying for college? Here’s some advice from the book “Get Into College” (Hundreds of Heads Books, www.hundredsofheads.com, $17.95), straight from people who’ve done it:
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