If a getaway to Napa just isn’t in the cards, bring the wine tasting home with Times Ten Cellars. Crafted…
Their Mission: To Make a Difference
No one understands the frustrations of parenting a child with special needs better than Doug and Patsy Arnold. Faced with…
The Healing Touch
Facing seemingly endless medicinal, therapeutic and even homeopathic options, finding the right treatment for a child with special needs can…
The First in Hurst
Newly dedicated on August 20, Mayfair Park’s sprawling playground is the first in Hurst designed specifically for children with special…
Soothing the Senses
Imagine you’re walking through the midway at an amusement park. You’ve spent a long day navigating crowds, inundated with bright…
Peace Up
Get on the road to inner peace with aromatherapy. Dallas-based Flower Road Natural Therapies’ founder and president, Michelle Shelmire, starts…
Meaningful Mentoring
Chad Mooney, CEO and Chairman of The Spectrum Place, understands what it’s like to be on the outside looking in….
Give Them an Earful
Are you homeschooling your child? If you haven’t heard of the Recorded Books Program, you might be overlooking a valuable…
Fill Up
Have you gone gluten free? If you’ve been wanting to, but don’t know where to start, you’re in luck: Whole…
Andrea Safford
Andrea Safford, Eagle Mountain mom of three (Bradyn, 3; Angelina, 3; and Cristyn, 1) sits at a table in the…
The Last Picture Show
Autumn. Back to school. And, sure as No. 2 pencils and spiffy new backpacks, Picture Day is not too far…
Unconventional Charm
Amy Gibbs isn’t ordinary. The petite blond, dressed in a cobalt-blue dress and brown Louboutin sling-backs, lives in Highland Park…
STRANDed, Not Deserted
After 50 years of teaching, local author Dr. Geraldine L. Haggard understands how kids deal with grief. So as a…
Paranoid Parenting
In her book, Lenore Skenazy, author of Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had (Without Going Nuts With…
Get Fresh
Now that school is in full-swing, our jam packed schedule is … well, wreaking some serious havoc on our skin….
C Is for Challenge
We first profiled Robin Cordry in October 2008. In celebration of her milestones, and the milestones of more than 100,000…
My Final "At Bat"
My final at-bat resulted in a standup triple. Unfortunately, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN3 were busy that night and didn’t record…
Children Who Play Together, Learn Together
Conventional wisdom might suggest that joint educational playtime (with two differently developing siblings) could pose too much of a distraction…
SLANT45: The Simple Things
SLANT 45, which stands for Service Learning in North Texas, was a community project program that aimed to involve children…
SLANT45: One Big Step for Kid-Kind
SLANT 45, which stands for Service Learning in North Texas, was a community project program that aimed to involve children…