As you know, this coming weekend is Mother’s Day.
Ha! OK, if you’re a man, you can stop gnashing your teeth and projectile sweating. That was what we who write professional-level humor columns call a “joke.” If you didn’t find it funny, it must be because you are not a professional.
Mother’s Day is many weeks off, [...]

Most of us are familiar with The Children’s Hospital of Denver’s top-notch medical services.
On Thursday, Mile High Mamas met at the hospital to learn about how moms like you can significantly impact the landscape of Colorado’s public policies. We also dined on Qdoba Mexican Grill’s new Mini Street Tacos.
Nothing like changing the world one [...]

A Mayoral Candidate Forum was held March 22 with nine of the 10 candidates  for Denver Mayor to discuss early childhood care and education.
The forum was hosted by Clayton Early Learning Center in Denver and Anne Trujillo of Channel 7 was the moderator.
The candidates were asked three questions which they had received earlier to prepare. [...]

Children should ride in rear-facing car seats longer, until they are 2 years old instead of 1, according to updated advice from a medical group and a federal agency.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued separate but consistent new recommendations Monday.
Both organizations say older children who’ve outgrown front-facing car [...]

Colorado lawmakers are joining the conversation on redrafting the No Child Left Behind law.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan joined Gov. John Hickenlooper and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet in a conference call to talk about changing the law.
“I cannot express how much we appreciate your sense of urgency,” Hickenlooper told Duncan. “All of us together [...]

Jefferson County Public Schools has proposed nearly $40 million in budget cuts for 2011-12 that would ax jobs, trim workers’ pay, close two elementary schools and suspend outdoor education for sixth-graders.
The proposed package — which the school board will vote on in May or June — also would impose transportation fees and and increase athletics [...]

President Barack Obama on Thursday hosted a first-of-its-kind conference on teen bullying, thrusting an issue usually confined to the schoolhouse into a national limelight.
Obama joked that as “someone with big ears and the name that I have,” he wasn’t immune to bullying as a child.
He added that the purpose of the conference was to dispel [...]

Yes, it’s March in Colorado, which means we’re in the midst of what is typically our snowiest month of the year. But, because it’s Colorado, it may be in the 60s and Sunny! Or not! Either way, I keep thinking back to our trip to Hawaii in October and dreaming a little. [...]

Tracy Ross hopes her third child, due in August, will be the daughter to whom she can give all the things her parents didn’t give her — empathy, validation and safety.
“I want a little girl because I can teach her how to be an empowered person that will stand up for others,” says the Boulder [...]

First, there was “Tiger Mom.” Now, there is “Hiroshima Mom.”
Anyone else seeing a pattern with all these Asian references?
In case you haven’t heard all the controversy surrounding Rahna Reiko Rizzuto ‘s memoir Hiroshima in the Morning, here’s the crib-note version. Several years ago, she was awarded a fellowship to spend six months in Japan [...]