Helping adopted kids navigate school projects
McClatchy Newspapers
9/9/2008, by Kelly Haramis
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - A new school year brings all sorts of challenges: Will your child make friends? Is the teacher nice? What's the homework load like? Yet for families formed through adoption or foster care, or for children being raised by a non-parent relative, the challenges often go well ...
Living with children
McClatchy Newspapers
9/9/2008, by John Rosemond
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Q: Our 16-year-old daughter constantly tells her younger siblings what to do and how to do it and that the way they do things isn't good enough. It creates daily friction in the family. What can we do to make it stop? A: A sense of humor would help. Fifty-plus years ...
As couple grows older, garden grows better
McClatchy Newspapers
9/9/2008, by Virginia A. Smith
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - Only at the end of a long, cheerful visit with Bob Butera and Marilyn Sifford does a little sadness slip into the conversation, and then only with prompting. We're sitting on a bench overlooking their woodland garden on almost two acres in Jeffersonville, Pa., and ...
Web Site Appeals to Spirituality of Children
Zenit News Agency
9/5/2008
The site, created by the Catholic Agency to Support Evangelization, an agency of the episcopal conference of England and Wales, is set to be launched Sunday. LONDON (Zenit) - The creators of a pioneering Web site for children hope their new resource will appeal to an increasing number of young ...
How to negotiate your way out of bank and credit-card fees
McClatchy Newspapers
6/25/2008, by Marshall Loeb
You open your bank statement or credit card bill, and there's a new fee assessed. To beat the fees, you'll need a strategy. NEW YORK (MCT) - It happens all the time. You open your bank statement or credit card bill, and there's a new fee assessed to your account that you hadn't counted on. Banks ...
Family fun day invigorates children with disabilities
The Catholic Review
6/25/2008, by Suzanne Molino Singleton
Targeted to families with children and adults with developmental disabilities, the afternoon of May 31 was Family Fun Day. BALTIMORE - Even before the first Family Fun Day was over, William Fleming was planning the next one. The coordinator of catechesis for persons with developmental disabilities ...
Safety checks reduce risks for elders in own homes
McClatchy Newspapers
6/22/2008, by Jane Glenn Haas - The Orange County Register
Mary Ann Goodman knows all about grab bars, throw rug dangers and junk-strewn homes.
As an elder care consultant for LivHOME, a Newport Beach, Calif. -based senior care provider, she routinely surveys homes for hazards.
Keeping elders in their own home is her No. 1 goal. Falls are the number one ...
Success in the vegetable patch
McClatchy Newspapers
6/22/2008, by Beth Botts - Chicago Tribune
A lot of people seem to be trying their hands at vegetable gardening this year, according to George Ball, president of W. Atlee Burpee & Co., the big seed company in Warminster, Pa. He says sales of vegetable seeds are up 30 to 40 percent this season, double last year's growth rate. A big factor, ...
Botanical products are for pets, naturally
McClatchy Newspapers
6/22/2008, by Connie Bloom - Akron Beacon Journal
AKRON, Ohio - I am en route to a visit with empty nesters Gay and Buz Fifer, drugged by the heavenly scent of picturesque Wooster, Ohio, bursting with the fruits of May, flowering bushes and trees in a half dozen hues. Even so, I can't seem to conquer the mental image of fields of dancing parsley. ...
Take two vacations and call me in the morning
McClatchy Newspapers
6/20/2008, by Dr. Kay Judge and Dr. Maxine Barish-Wreden
We don't need studies to tell us vacations are a welcome reprieve from the everyday grind and help decrease our stress level. We are finding out, however, that vacations may also lead to decreased heart attacks and longer lives. Have you planned your summer vacation yet? If not - maybe you should ...
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