Summer learning loss, aka, the “summer slide,” is when students start the school year with academic achievement and testing levels lower than what they had at the end of the last school year. Over the summer months, students’ academic levels decline — especially in math and reading — resulting in the loss of one month of school year learning. And this slide gets steeper in higher grade levels.

One of the greatest gifts we can give our children is permission to fail. Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a necessary step towards succeeding. If necessity is the mother of invention, then feeling safe enough to fail is the father of invention.

When troubling events fill the news, older students, who often have more unsupervised access to media, can feel overwhelmed. Young children can absorb more than adults realize through tone, tension and snippets of conversation...

Guardian-child gymnastics classes don’t just help your child improve their gymnastics skills, they create a supportive environment for youth to grow while strengthening their bonds with a guardian.

Remember about 10 years ago, walking into a store and seeing one shelf of dog food and half a shelf of cat food? Nowadays, you can get lost in the multiple aisles of pet food...

Between school schedules, sports and everyday life, dental care can easily get pushed aside — especially when it comes to baby teeth. But those early years play a powerful role in a child’s long-term health and confidence.