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Proposed Ban on Russian Adoptions Will Harm Kids
On a rare balmy day in mid-December, I was sitting on my front porch soaking up the distant rays when I looked to my left. A few houses down, I saw my 18-year-old neighbor, home from his first...
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Boys’ Behavior Predicts Grades
credit: Gluckstein.com It’s official: Boys generally get worse grades than girls not because they know less, but because of their behavior, say researchers in a new study. The research, led by...
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A College Reject Speaks Out
Now that college acceptance and rejection letters have been digested, the time is right for a little levity and perspective on the subject of college admissions. High school senior Suzy Lee Weiss’s...
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A Rite of Passage: Clothes Shopping with Adolescent Daughter
credit: fanpop.com Sometimes I long for the days when I’d bring home a couple bags of clothes from the mall, plop them onto my daughter’s bed, and handily close that shopping chapter until the next...
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Playing Baseball in a Lacrosse-Crazed Town
Peter Heubeck at bat. I once found myself walking past a varsity lacrosse game at an area independent high school and, in doing so, felt a sudden urge to genuflect. I suppose it was a knee-jerk...
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Local Couple Supports Breakthrough Food Allergy Research with Golf Tournament
Imagine living with the constant fear that your child may unknowingly eat something that contains a given food, even just a trace of it, to which he is severely allergic. Within minutes the adverse...
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Bryn Mawr Dedicates Quadrangle to Long-term Supporters
credit: Laurel Weijer Bryn Mawr’s Carey Quadrangle looks like the perfect oasis for sitting under a tree and losing oneself in a good book, or even a textbook. That’s probably what M. Carey Thomas, one...
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Ready or Not, Here Comes Summer
credit: azdailysun.com Ready or not, summer break is right around the corner. While my kids for have been counting down the days left of school for weeks, if not months, I’m a tad more ambivalent about...
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Is the World a Scarier Place Today Than When We Were Kids, or Have We Just...
photo courtesy of cleveland.com. It was Saturday morning, the first weekend of the summer, and our family’s calendar was completely blank. So, naturally, my almost 11-year-old son was looking for a...
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Why So Few Teens have Summer Jobs
photo courtesy of parentdish.com. Making small talk chit chat with an acquaintance recently, I asked her what her teenage daughters were doing this summer. It was one of those pleasantries that just...
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Local Summer Camps: Calling all Budding Digital Entrepreneurs, Zoologists,...
Photo courtesy of the Digital Harbor Foundation. Outside, it’s a typical Baltimore City summer day, with soaring temperatures and shirt-soaking humidity. But step into a former rec center at 1045 Light...
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When the Kids are Away, Moms Get to Play
Photo courtesy of Oprah.com. You’ve said your goodbyes, maybe wiped away a few tears and pushed down the lump in your throat–especially if it’s your child’s first time at sleep-away summer camp. But...
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Local Actor, Writer, Producer Jason Odell Williams Nominated for an Emmy
Photo courtesy of Kristin Hoebermann. Columbia native Jason Odell Williams is making it big these days. His promising and oh-so-relevant first novel, Personal Statement, published by In This Together...
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Meet Deb Roffman, AKA ‘The Sex Lady’ at Area Private Schools
Deborah Roffman isn’t afraid to talk to kids about sex. In fact, for the last 39 years she’s made a career of it, addressing lower and middle school students at Baltimore independent schools about the...
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The Annual Cookie Swap: Measuring Up to Holiday-driven Domestic Divas
The holiday season gives domestic divas plenty of opportunities to strut their stuff. They operate in an arena in which I’ve never even attempted to compete. Case in point: It was 5:00pm last Friday...
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Too Cool for School?
Photo courtesy npr.org I vividly remember standing at the school bus stop in my school uniform: an itchy wool jumper, thin nylon knee high socks, stiff saddle shoes, topped off with a flimsy winter...
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Garrison Forest Senior Becomes Science Superstar
Photo courtesy of Anna Schaefer, Garrison Forest, ’14. While other little kids spent their weekends watching cartoons, Garrison Forest senior Katherine Paseman focused on designing a balsa wood bridge...
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Meet the New Head of the Contemporary, Deana Haggag
Photo courtesy of Olivia Obineme At 26, many young adults are just starting to figure out what they want to do with their lives, or at least how the heck they’re going to support themselves. Then...
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Dredging up the Past: My Summer Volunteer Gig from Hell
Ever since my kids were little, I’ve scrambled around this time of year to find summer camps that would, optimally, expand their horizons or, at the very least, keep them occupied and safe. But this...
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MICA Graduate Student Stretches Boundaries of Teaching Art
There’s a lot of talk these days coming out of art institutions about making art more accessible to the broader community. Then there are graduate students like Qianfei Wang, who has taken this message...
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