August 2012

Dance video games take technology to the next level

Much to the dismay of first-floor apartment dwellers, interactive dance video games have been prompting kids across the U.S. to get up and dance around their living rooms—and it doesn’t appear to be a passing trend.

Joe Barry

Keep an eye on the problems

If your child has been diagnosed with a learning disability or has a history of struggling in school, you may want to take a closer at the problem.

Maya Kosoff

Healthy habits can help prevent diabetes

Gestational diabetes is diabetes that is found for the first time when a woman is pregnant.

From Family Features

Swing through Williamsport for a sporting time

Headed north from Central Pennsylvania on a long road trip with a car full of bored kids? If you find yourself on Route 15, take a pit stop in South Williamsport. Or better yet, pack the kids in the car and take a daytrip to The Peter J. McGovern Little League Museum in Lycoming County...

Maya Kosoff

Space crucial to a happy marriage

If you’ve ever been asked, “Do you and your husband go out a lot?” you might answer like one of the millions of parents who’d chuckle and say, “Yes, sure we do. But not together!”

Laurie Puhn

Ready for the sporting life?

With the new school year just around the corner, many kids are thinking less about impending homework and more about the return to school sports.

Marina Shannon

Back to home schooling

For most families, back-to-school time means heading out to take advantage of school supply sales, clothes shopping and stocking up on fruit cups, puddings and other lunchbox staples.

Jennifer Marrs

Divorce and children

There was Heidi Klum and Seal, Arnold and Maria and now Tom and Katie. The couples make the headlines, but divorce doesn’t just affect the adults who hire lawyers to divide assets. It also affects the children.

Marina Shannon

Divorce doesn't have to dampen celebrations

Ricki Emery knew at the time of her divorce she still would have to see her ex-husband—at least for the next 14 years.

Marina Shannon

Considering adopting a furry friend?

About a year ago, I started on a quest to adopt our next family dog.

Angela Gorman

One chicken, five easy school lunches

For me, nothing signals the end of summer like quiet Sunday nights.

Christine Burngs Rudalevige

Take a shot for the family

Roll up your sleeves, moms and dads. In order to fully protect your family from illnesses, children—and the adults who care for them—need to update their boosters.

Tabitha Goodling

Special education funding ignored by state

David F. Salter

School funding restored... but will it help?

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett signed the state budget into law minutes before it would’ve been tardy and, with the legislation, restored funding to public schools that had been subtracted in previous drafts.

David F. Salter

Help your child do well in school

Children constantly go through developmental stages physically, intellectually, emotionally and socially.

Sandra Gordon

Bullying... in preschool?

Your son comes home from preschool and tells you “Ryan” is being mean again. You ask him, “What is Ryan doing?” Your little guy gives you a pitiful face and says, “He is mean to me.”

Tabitha Goodling