Month: March 2018

Are you training for the BIG conversations?

What feels like both yesterday and a long time ago my daughter was in 2nd grade, and a friend was being mean to her. In my quest to support her I discovered “Little Girls Can Be Mean” by Michelle Anthony and Reyna Lindert. That book taught me the importance of connecting with my daughter – and maybe more importantly – the necessity of maintaining that connection through her pre-teen and teen years.  The authors say that if you don’t freak out about her 2nd grade questions and problems, then she will continue to come to you with her struggles as she gets older – when her questions and problems get increasingly complex. This desire to create and maintain connection with my daughter inspired me to create a mobile game company that focuses on helping kids and their careg...

Broadway Legends Released A Gorgeous New Single To Benefit March For Our Lives

If you haven’t been inspired by the thousands who participated in March for Our Lives, this will do it. Broadway legends Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt were inspired by the thousands of students who mobilized for change following the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. They dropped a new single to benefit the initiative. The song, “Found/Tonight,” is a mash-up of “You Will Be Found” from the hit musical Dear Evan Hansen and “The Story of Tonight” from Hamilton.

Talk to the Camera Summer Camp where kids dream, write and create movies and video

Looking for some FULL day and HALF day options to keep your kiddos entertained this summer? Check out Talk to the Camera for a variety of one-of-a-kind camps that will do MUCH more than entertain your kiddos! At Talk to the Camera Summer Camps KIDS: LEARN– getting HANDS ON experience behind the scenes and on camera. HAVE FUN– sharing their ideas to create unique videos and movies! WORK with industry professionals – Their will be stunt coordinators, FX specialists and choreographers in some of our classes! FLOURISH – Learning or improving on many critical skills – communication, self-confidence and social skills. Kids dream, write, create, film, act in and produce movies and video. Talk to the Camera is Colorado’s First On-Camera & Movie-Making Progra...

New initiative aims to have middle schoolers put their phones away

Yesterday, the Screenagers team officially launched a website-based initiative, “Away For The Day” initiative,  to promote middle schools to adopt policies where phones are put away for the day in places like lockers. We have worked for many months on this and the site is full of super cool resources and videos to empower anyone to make changes.   Would you take 2 seconds to PLEDGE at AwayForTheDay.org to show your support of this initiative? OUR IMMEDIATE GOAL is to to get 1,000 pledges by March 31st, so when we go to news outlets we can show them how much parents, teachers, principals, and others care about this issue! Please share via social, email and word of mouth. Thanks to the many of you who participated in our national survey, we learned that 55% of middle...

Contest: Toddlers, Sensitive Skin, and Science Behind This Colorado Skincare Company

The Reason I Started My Colorado Skincare Company My company, Brevity, launched in August but It really started long before that. I was raised in Colorado by a nature-loving artist who would give me chicken soup, chamomile tea and comfrey compresses before resorting to medicine, or store-bought creams. I was always curious about how these things worked, and why an aloe leaf felt better than the green aloe goo from Walgreens. This same curiosity led me to choose Biology as my undergraduate major. I’ve been creating products ever since. When I became a mom, this little passion of mine became more of a lifestyle. I wanted to put only the best, natural things on my son’s sensitive skin. He has eczema and is prone to itchy dry spots. The defining moment came after a camping trip. The weekend in...

Easter Bunny Breakfast at Outlets at Castle Rock!

Guess who’s coming to town this week? Hint: It ain’t Santa! Join the Easter Bunny and Outlets at Castle Rock on March 31st, 2018 at 8:30 – 10 a.m. in the food court for a special Flippin’ Flapjacks breakfast. There will be fun activities for the children, such as face painting and a photo opportunity with the Easter Bunny, so come dressed in your Easter outfits! The kids will also receive a special pair of Easter Bunny ears. The breakfast will cost $5 which will go directly to Catholic Charities of Central Colorado, or instead of a $5 ticket, you can bring a food item (see list below) to support Catholic Charities and pay for your flapjack meal. Catholic Charities serves the Douglas County community by offering programs to help individuals and families build resiliency an...

2,700 Students and Teachers Attend Hamilton Performance

The innovative educational program that debuted at HAMILTON on Broadway continued at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, March 21 when 2,700 students and teachers from 38 Denver area high schools attended the matinee performance of the musical at The Buell Theatre.   The all-student matinee performance in Denver provided more than 2,700 Denver area high school students the opportunity to experience the musical HAMILTON after having spent several weeks in their classrooms studying American history through a special integrated curriculum about Alexander Hamilton and the nation’s Founding Fathers.   In addition to seeing a performance of HAMILTON, students participated in a Q&A with members of the HAMILTON cast.&nb...

50 events for Easter weekend in Denver

Easter weekend is upon us! Don’t miss these egg hunts, brunches and Easter Bunny meet-ups. There are plenty of other general events as well including free days, free spring break tours and Boulder Arts Week. See our event calendar for more information.  Easter Events Easter Bunny Breakfast at Outlets at Castle Rock Mar 31, 8:30 am – 10:00 am Join the Outlets at Castle Rock in the food court for a special Flippin’ Flapjacks breakfast. There will be fun activities for the children, such as face painting and a photo opportunity with the Easter Bunny, so come dressed in your Easter outfits! The kids will also receive a special pair of Easter Bunny ears. The breakfast will cost $5 which will go directly to Catholic Charities of Central Colorado, or instead of a $5.00 ticket, you can ...

Momsplaining Episode 5: #ProductReviews with Ryan Hansen

Take Ellen Degeneres, add Kristen Bell and you have a whole lot of laughter! “Momsplaining” is a hilarious six-episode original digital series created by Ellen Degeneres in partnership with OLLY Nutrition. Kristen and Ryan Hansen– her longtime BFF and “Veronica Mars co-star – road test the wackiest and most wonderful baby products on the market!

Recipe: Cream Soda Pancakes

Cream soda invokes images of old-fashioned fizzy fun. It’s a throwback to a simpler time in soda history, before bubbly drinks went XTREME and were loaded with caffeine. Because cream soda is so simple, featuring vanilla as its star flavor, it can be used many ways. Have some for breakfast! Top them with warm pie filling and homemade vanilla whipped cream for an extra special breakfast. They’d be dandy with nearly any topping. Some of my kids ate the leftover pancakes un-topped and cold, straight out of the ziploc bag in the refrigerator. They don’t do that with regular pancakes, so there must be something special about the cream soda version. To Make: 3 cups of sifted flour 3/4 cup sugar 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 3 eggs, beaten 2 12 oz. cans crea...

Mom Friends – To Have or to Have Not

After giving birth the first time, I became surprisingly open to meeting other new moms with whom I was certain to form a lifelong bond. If you told me you had a kid, even if you were a total mom dick raising a brat-to-be, it was a done deal; you and I were to be mom friends. Within moments of meeting, I was envisioning gleeful play dates, successful carpool arrangements, sleepovers without slumber, and trades during which you and I take turns relieving one another of our mommy duties to free up time for self care (for example, peeing with the door closed). Not only was I super receptive to making new mom connections, I was also all about rekindling old friendships with ladies who, like me, now had offspring. Out of nowhere, I was agreeing to meet up with childhood acquaintances whom I had...

21 top events in Denver this week

Awesome events this week include Princess Week at Outlets at Castle Rock, free day at Denver Botanic Gardens, the Denver Home Show and more. See our event calendar for more details.   Princess Week at Outlets at Castle Rock  March 19- 24 Join Outlets at Castle Rock for Princess Week March 19th – 24th, 2018 including a royal scavenger hunt for children to find princesses throughout the Center by picking a map and sticker sheet from Customer Service. Don’t miss Tiara Tuesday!  On Tuesday, March 20th, if you stop by Customer Service wearing a tiara, you will receive a $5 gift card good at all the Outlets at Castle Rock stores. The scavenger hunt will go for the entire week leading up to their Princess Tea Party on Saturday, March 24t...

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