PHOTOS: Millburn's egg hunt is a success despite rain.
The Annual Egg Hunt was held Saturday in Taylor Park's Bauer Community Center due to rainy conditions. It was a success despite the overcast weather. Children from pre-school through second grade arrived with baskets in hand, and smiles on their faces.
Registration ends Friday for event that helps families be comfortable at Saint Barnabas Medical Center.
If being in a hospital is scary for adults, it can be terrifying for children. To lessen their anxieties about being in the hospital, Saint Barnabas Medical Center is inviting children ages 4 through 8 to bring their teddy bears or favorite stuffed animals to a Teddy Bear Clinic on July 20. (Registration ends July 15). The event will follow an open house format where children will learn about medical equipment and procedures to become comfortable with visiting a hospital. Together, children and their stuffed animal “patients” will visit a series of 16 interactive play stations so that kids will have a good time learning that they don’t have to fear a trip to the hospital. “The Teddy Bear Clinic is designed to be similar to the experiences…
Columnist learns through her second child that nature is as important as nurture
Confession time. I may have judged you, fellow parents. I may have felt sorry for you, or worse, superior to you. It’s possible that while recapping our day, I may have said to my husband with an air of some authority, that “the X’s child does (fill in undesirable behavior here) because the X’s are too something or not enough of another, blah blah blah.....” Obviously, we were excellent parents as evident by our daughter, aka, angel child. And then came number two. In the beginning, he too seemed to be an angel baby. He slept well, took his multiple hospitalizations like a champ, and smiled and gurgled, oozing cuteness. But then he learned to talk. And walk. His favorite word became "NO!" Shouted at the top of his lungs, all the time. …
India
11:26 am on Sunday, February 15, 2009
Jaleh's insight into parenting was a refreshing read. As an adoptive mom, I found much with which I could relate. It brings to mind the passage from Gibran's "The Prophet" (Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you...); something I struggle … more ›