Oct 7, 2020 | Family Life, Local News
Mesa announces reopening plans for two city museums The City of Mesa has announced that the Arizona Museum of Natural History and the i.d.e.a. Museum will be reopening at the end of this month. Both City owned and operated venues have been closed since the pandemic...
Sep 29, 2020 | Family Life, Trending
By Kerrie McLoughlin Don’t you just love Halloween?! It is exciting (dressing up and all of that sugar!) and scary (trick-or-treating in the dark!) and a little bit gross (pumpkin goo!). My parents started Halloween traditions with me, and my mom still calls...
Sep 29, 2020 | Education, Family Life
by Christa Melnyk Hines Your child has come home with a poor report card. What do you do now? For some kids, school is a challenge no matter what. But throw in a historic pandemic, complete with masks, social distancing, and an unrecognizable classroom...
Sep 29, 2020 | Family Life, Local News
By Heather Gearheart Drug-exposed babies born every 15 minutes. Foster children getting physically lost in the system. Abusers with more power than their child victims. For most of us, it’s too much. Too much to think about and definitely too much to do...
Aug 31, 2020 | Family Life, Health & Fitness, Medical, Trending
Managing Pandemic Stress By Randall Ricardi, DO & Funda Bachini, MD There’s no denying that the COVID-19 pandemic is stressful for parents. But have you considered how the unprecedented uncertainty is impacting your children? The pandemic has changed every aspect...
Aug 31, 2020 | Family Life
The important role grandparents play in our lives, and a look at grandparents raising grandchildren during these turbulent times By Michelle Talsma Everson More than six months into the COVID-19 pandemic and the “new normal,” at least to me, still doesn’t seem...
