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Swim school's new home
After years of traveling to pools all over Miami-Dade County to give swimming lessons, a popular South Florida instructor has built her own school, with a heated indoor pool. Miren Oca's Ocaquatics Swim School has been around for 16 years, but it's been a traveling business. Oca taught in the pools at the University of Miami and Gulliver Academy in Pinecrest, and private back yards. IF YOU GO...read more...Are your kids' toys too loud?
Are children's toys getting louder? Parents who stroll through any large chain store might swear it's true: Computer games, designed for ever-younger kids, emit an assortment of beeps, blips, peals and shrieks. Try to find a tractor or a bulldozer that doesn't blast a realistic engine roar or other on-the-job sound. TOYS TESTED Here are the toys the UCI team tested, followed by the decibel level up close...read more...Museum opens 'Wizard of Oz'
There's no place like home. And now there's no place on the planet quite like the Miami Children's Museum, as it kicks off The Wizard of Oz Children's Educational Exhibition. Created by the museum in conjunction with Warner Bros., it's the first licensed traveling educational exhibit based on Oz in history and will hit the road in May to visit other cities including Boston, New York,...read more...How to get kids into modeling
Like most proud moms, you probably carry around adorable photos of your children. Strangers stop you on the street and tell you how cute your baby is. Friends and relatives keep saying, "You should really get your kids into modeling!'' Maybe you'd like to but don't know how to go about it. My twin daughters have been modeling since they were 6 months old. Now 6 years...read more...'Kangaroo care' helps preemies
I never imagined I'd spend my first weeks as a mother pretending to be a marsupial. But there I was, sitting in the neonatal intermediate care unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital, hoping that a practice known as ``kangaroo care'' would help my preemie. Every morning I'd put my 4-pound, 6-ounce son under my pouch-like sweater so that we were skin to skin, chest to chest, my body replacing his incubator as a...read more...Q & A: 'Pink Brain, Blue Brain'
Neuroscientist Lise Eliot writes about what's nearest and dearest to her heart: Her children and their malleable brains. The result is a compelling perspective on parenting, one that challenges conventional notions of sex differences. Yes, little boys reach for trucks. And little girls carry dolls. But in her latest book Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps and What We Can do About It...read more...Should little girls wear high heels?
A pair of sparkly, peekaboo shoes with heels 2 inches high are favorites of 6-year-old Helena Bell ever since she got them for a wedding. "She's worn them to the point where the jewels have fallen off," says Helena's mother, Dana Bell. "It's not my preference, but I've stopped fighting it." The heels aren't allowed at school, but the first-grader from Woodland...read more...Meet 'Vampire Academy' author
Smart trend-watchers might look at the two biggest publishing phenomenon of the past decade -- the Harry Potter series and the Twilight books -- and conclude that the next can't-miss blockbuster would take place at a boarding school that trains vampires to use magic. Too late. Richelle Mead has already thought of that. Her Vampire Academy books detail life at St. Vladimir's, a Montana school...read more...Is your child gifted?
For some parents, getting a child into the gifted program is akin to winning a gold medal in the academic Olympics. It’s a label parents and some students crave as much for the prestige as the potential for higher learning. Educators say parents who clamor to get the inside track on gifted testing should consider whether it’s really right for their child. BY JULIE LANDRY LAVIOLETTE, MomsMiami.com Read...read more...New circus show adds illusion
For the first time in its 139 years of bringing the Greatest Show on Earth to the wondrous masses, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey is incorporating the world of illusion in its latest creation, "Zing Zang Zoom," which kicks off its second-year tour at downtown Miami's American Airlines Arena on Jan. 8 The show combines the mystique of Cirque du Soleil colliding with classic, family-friendly circus acts,...read more...
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