A few years ago, we were in the throes (or rather, woes) of potty training our stubborn 3-year-old daughter. Our pediatrician recommended we attend a FREE toilet training seminar at The Children’s Hospital and I have been an advocate of this program ever since.
Let’s face it: there is a lot to parenting and tapping into [...]

A north-metro-area school district hopes a gleaming — but controversial — new high school with a different approach to teaching will help bring it out of the academic doldrums.
Adams County School District 50 opens the doors to Westminster High School on Aug. 30, drawing students from the now-closed Ranum High and the old Westminster High. [...]

Struggling Colorado schools will receive about $43 million in federal turnaround grants over three years.
Nineteen schools in six districts — Denver, Pueblo City, Mesa County District 51, Sheridan, Adams 14 and Center Consolidated School District 26JT — will receive the money, according to the Colorado Department of Education.
The grants are part of the Obama administration’s [...]

Pinkberry 1000 S. Colorado Blvd., Glendale, 303-756-7465. Open seven days, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.
The look: Pastel and pretty, Colorado’s first outpost of the once-edgy, now-trendy Pinkberry is a jewel box of a frozen-yogurt shop on South Colorado Boulevard near East Tennessee Avenue. Pop music fills the air, towering windows let in copious light. It is spotless [...]

You are the Music Makers. You are the Dreamers of Dreams.
~Dog House Music’s motto
Before Ryley’s week at Dog House Music’s Rock & Roll Camp for Teens began, I can’t say he was much of a music maker. Dreamer? Of course. Most kids are experts at dreaming big dreams.
He is the proud owner of [...]

We have big news that is sending local tweens and teens in a frenzy: the Wonder Girls are coming to Denver on July 6th!
The Wonder Girls, five female teenage sensations hailing from the east as music royalty, are finally making their highly anticipated new single “2 Different Tears.” This is the Wonder Girls’ [...]

Dear Mama Drama:
I have three daughters ages 13, 11, and 8. They are all avid readers and generally read well above their age level. My eight year old wants to read whatever her sisters are reading, but as they get into their teens I am not always comfortable with the content.
When there is sexual content [...]

One day they are 9-year-olds affixing Hannah Montana or Spider-Man posters to their walls.
Then they are teenagers.
He wants to paint his bedroom walls black. She demands a vampire-themed suite. Mom and Dad are bummed out and prepared neither to embrace nor indulge this evolving outlook.
Relax, say interior designers with experience negotiating parent/teen tensions over room [...]

My oldest daughter doesn’t want to take Spanish next year.
I want her to take Spanish next year. It’s an elective only offered to eighth graders, it’s free, it’s available. To my mommy mind, it makes sense.
I explained the benefits of having a full year of Spanish completed before high school. She’ll be [...]

With Mother’s Day this month, I find myself taking a look back through all the years I’ve been a mother. I’ve officially decided that once you have children, time moves at double speed. I can so vividly recall those precious, magical days when my teenage daughter was a toddler – heck, I have SHOES older [...]