Adding numbers and writing sentences on the blackboard is what you’d typically expect your child to learn from school. But…
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Get Into the Groove
The holidays are here and, for many families, that means last-minute shopping, traveling with kids by car or plane, and…
Out of the Bored Room
The holidays are practically knocking at our door. Translation? Long car rides to our relatives’ homes and post-dinner conversations at…
Oh, Behave!
We all want our little ones to have good manners. But we can’t expect them to learn them all at…
Digging Up Something Good
For some kids, a day at school means books and rulers and backpacks. At Little Elm’s Brent Intermediate School, they’re…
Kiddie Litter
It seems like something anyone could do—pick up trash. But how many of us actually put the gloves to work?…
Wine Down
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…
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…
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…
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…
Woofing It for a Cause
Motivated by a desire to reach out to oft-forgotten children, Fort Worth Dad Drew Myers decided to give the kids…