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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: Teen secretive about dating
- July 7, 2009
- Our daughter is a sophomore this fall. She is very tight-lipped to me, her mother, about anything regarding boys. Do you see this as a problem, or is it to be expected at this age?
- Parents should help son transfer to adulthood by setting guidelines
- June 30, 2009
- Dear Dr. Wes and Kelly: My 19-year-old son has decided that he is not going to go back to college. His father and I don’t know what to do in response. We set aside money for that purpose, not to keep him in an apartment just to work. We also don’t really know how to handle him moving home if we don’t support him in an apartment. We also don’t know how to respond to him not wanting to be in college anymore. It seems like he’s throwing his life away.
- Math books add learning to love of literature
- June 29, 2009
- Allow your school-age kids and teens to have fun with math over the long vacation with some of these books that have entertaining and interesting math concepts.
- Applied science
- June 29, 2009
- Looking for something fun to do this summer with your kids? Lucinda Crenshaw has a plan down to a science.
- Double Take: Parental patience necessary for unemployed teens right now
- June 23, 2009
- Frequent readers know that I’m a big fan of teenagers making their way in the world and that any transfer of money in the home should be an economics lesson.
- Kid craft: These garden puppets won’t bug you
- June 22, 2009
- With summer bugs emerging, it’s time to create some insects of your own. We promise these won’t sting or bite you.
- Double Take: Recent killings reason to teach children about tolerance
- June 16, 2009
- My 12-year-old daughter and I were visiting the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum exactly two weeks ago to the hour of the recent shooting.
- Get teens on board for happier vacation
- June 16, 2009
- There’s only one thing worse than a cranky 2-year-old when you’re on vacation, and that’s a cranky teenager.
- Home of their own: Lawrence teens build confidence amid rehearsing theater production
- June 16, 2009
- Ever wonder what it would be like to see Lawrence through the eyes of someone else?
- Mother doubts teen daughter’s reasons to start taking birth control pills
- June 9, 2009
- My 15-year-old daughter has had problems with regular periods for some time.
- Children should wear sunglasses when outside
- June 9, 2009
- Just as parents want to protect their children from skin cancer by putting sunscreen on them, parents should protect children’s eyes by getting them in the habit of wearing sunglasses outdoors, says Steven Schiff, an optometrist in Deer Park, N.Y.
- Kid reads: ‘Anne of Green Gables’
- June 8, 2009
- When Anne first arrives at Green Gables, a bucolic neighborhood nested inside the shores of Prince Edward Island, she discovers an enchanted kingdom of fairies, flora and fauna. She “befriends” the Snow Queen, a white apple tree outside the yard and admires the reflection off the Lake of Shining Waters.
- Perry-Lecompton student selected as congressional page
- June 8, 2009
- Even though Austin Naramore, a junior at Perry-Lecompton High School, won’t take a government class until next year, he thinks he’ll probably know a thing or two about the way it’s run after spending his summer working as a congressional page.
- June bugs: Studying insects a fun, educational summer activity
- June 8, 2009
- Aubrey Goscha loves to catch bugs — even those that sting. She’s willing to make that sacrifice.
- Double Take: School boundaries will split high school student from friends
- June 2, 2009
- Our 15-year-old, ninth-grade daughter is preparing to not join her peers in high school due to us living in a different attendance zone than all her friends.
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