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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...// //Autism charter school opens
Susan Leon spent years trying to find the right school for her autistic son, Reno. The public schools didn't have the right tools to teach children with autism, she said. And the specialized private schools were too costly. So Leon, a paralegal from Kendall, convened a group of parents and experts to create the region's first charter school exclusively for autistic children. The...read more...// //Easing school anxiety
Wendy K. Silverman, director of the Child Anxiety and Phobia Program at Florida International University, has been teaching children how to conquer their fears for more than 20 years. As a researcher and board-certified clinical child and adolescent psychologist, she sees youngsters whose extreme anxiety can keep them out of the classroom. With school starting, we talked to Silverman about her research and about what parents...read more...// //Lunch out of the box
Blogger Deborah Hamilton has a fresh idea for school-lunch packers: the bento box. She sends her son off every school day with her own version of the compartmentalized Japanese lunch container. "I would like to say I have a master plan and my evil genius of bento kung fu tells me what to do, but really it's whatever I have in the house,'' said Hamilton, who blogs at www.lunchinabox.net ....read more...// //School adds sensory room
At Hollywood Park Elementary School, a new sensory room is part classroom, part indoor playground -- a space teachers hope will help calm anxious kids and stimulate nonresponsive ones. In the freedom of the sensory room, the children "can come out of their shell,'' said teacher Maria Diaz. TIPS FOR HOME Read advice from a local decorator on how to incorporate colors and textures and...read more...// //Obama girls to go to Chelsea's alma mater
By LISA TOLIN, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama and his wife have chosen a private school for their two daughters, opting for an institution that another White House child, Chelsea Clinton, attended a decade ago. Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, will be attending Sidwell Friends School, a private Quaker school with a campus in northwest Washington for grades 5-12 and another in suburban Bethesda,...read more...// //Kids head back to class
Early to bed. Carry a backpack. Eat what's in your lunch box. Olivia Zarraluqui had spent days drilling the routine into her 4-year-old son Jose, who is starting pre-kindergarten this week. On Monday, "we were all ready to go,'' Zarraluqui, of Coral Gables, said. But then Tropical Storm Fay undid all her work by delaying the start of HOW'S...read more...// //Tips for healthy lunchbox
Another school year is here and along with it the daily dilemma over how to pack a healthy lunch that the kids will eat. Studies have shown that eating a well-balanced lunch helps keep minds sharp and prepares kids for an afternoon of learning. However, according to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, even though your child's school cafeteria is required to match federal government...read more...// //Local kids skipping vaccines
More than 10,000 students sought exemptions from required vaccinations last year in Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe county schools, giving South Florida some of the highest noncompliance rates in the state. And the percentage of South Florida children not having their shots when school starts is growing, according to Florida Department of Health READ MORE "Vaccine court'' ruling spotlights the...read more...End of school a rat race for mom
NEW YORK -- My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys "won'' (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the middle of a work day. Yup, that was the only problem -- the middle-of-the-work-day part. Just like my daughter's ballet recital the day before...read more...
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