Win Dad a Family Vacation to YMCA of the Rockies!
May 21, 2012 – 6:15 am | Comments Off

If there is an affordable, fun family vacation that rivals YMCA of the Rockies, I’d like to know about it.
Since I moved to Colorado almost 10 years ago, we have had a family reunion and multiple trips to both of the YMCA of the Rockies’ Colorado locations.
As new parents with an irascible, insomniac toddler, [...]

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Busses rally in protest of budget cuts
March 31, 2011 – 12:02 pm | No Comment
Busses rally in protest of budget cuts

Fifty-one buses from Falcon District 49 in El Paso County drove north to the state Capitol today in an effort to send a message to state legislators about education cuts.

A lesson for all of us
March 31, 2011 – 9:23 am | No Comment
A lesson for all of us

Police have located the family of a toddler who was found alone in the dark in northeast Denver by a passerby who was out walking his dog just before 6 a.m. in the area of Manual High School, 1700 E. 28th Ave..

Event Round-up: Family Field Day, Pirates, a Flauschink Celebration & More!
March 30, 2011 – 12:40 pm | No Comment
Event Round-up: Family Field Day, Pirates, a Flauschink Celebration & More!

Saturday. Get outside and get moving at “Health For All Seasons,” a family field day and fitness fair at the Children’s Museum of Denver. Participate in all sorts of fun games and test your springtime strength: Run a three-legged race with a pal, measure your distance in the long jump and giving hula hooping a [...]

Bronx Zoo’s missing cobra speaks out on Twitter
March 30, 2011 – 8:52 am | No Comment
Bronx Zoo’s missing cobra speaks out on Twitter

NEW YORK—The Bronx Zoo may still be looking for its missing cobra, but a tongue-in-cheek Twitter user is charting its supposed progress.

FDA will study food colorings’ impact on kids
March 30, 2011 – 7:07 am | One Comment
FDA will study food colorings’ impact on kids

WASHINGTON — After staunchly defending the safety of artificial food colorings, the federal government is for the first time publicly reassessing whether foods such as Jell-O, Lucky Charms cereal and Minute Maid lemonade should carry warnings that the bright artificial colorings in them worsen behavior problems such as hyperactivity in some children.

Five things parents can do to help an anxious child
March 29, 2011 – 7:00 am | No Comment
Five things parents can do to help an anxious child

While a trip to Disney World is an event that is celebrated by most children, for 9-year-old Ann, it was an ordeal to be tolerated.
She became anxious and started to sweat whenever she was in a crowded area. Ann refused to go on most of the rides. She was reluctant to eat food that was [...]

Your opinion: Do you pay your kids for good grades?
March 29, 2011 – 7:00 am | 5 Comments
Your opinion: Do you pay your kids for good grades?

Paying your kids for good grades is like paying them to grow and learn and you can’t put a price on that. The hard work that goes into getting good grades is a hard-earned life lesson.
Kids learn accountability and responsibility from their grades; good or bad. In most cases, grades are a direct reflection of [...]

Nickelodeon launches anti-bullying campaign
March 28, 2011 – 10:49 am | 2 Comments
Nickelodeon launches anti-bullying campaign

NEW YORK—The popular children’s television network Nickelodeon is the latest voice to raise awareness of digital bullying.

Burt’s Bees founder wants to donate national park
March 28, 2011 – 7:07 am | One Comment
Burt’s Bees founder wants to donate national park

TOWNSHIP 3, RANGE 8, Maine—Maine sportsmen were outraged when Roxanne Quimby, the conservation-minded founder of Burt’s Bees cosmetics, bought up tens of thousands of acres of Maine’s fabled North Woods—and had the audacity to forbid hunters, loggers, snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles on the expanses.

Scientifically Speaking: Event Round-up for Science & Nature Lovers!
March 28, 2011 – 5:30 am | Comments Off
Scientifically Speaking: Event Round-up for Science & Nature Lovers!

ONGOING EVENTS
Winter nature program “Critter Scene Investigation,” a program for kids and adults, led by Volunteer Naturalists, will be on select snowy mornings when conditions are good for tracking animals at Devil’s Backbone Open Space, Horsetooth Mountain Open Space and Eagle’s Nest Open Space. Participants will receive e-mail notification the night before a program is [...]