Navigating life in a Canton row house when babies make six.
There we were—the hubby and me—in the sonogram room at our obstetrician’s office waiting to see that little eight-week-old blob that would be our baby in 32 short weeks. The tech kept looking at...
An autism specialist’s personal experience inspires a new way to tackle childhood obesity.
Eleven years ago, Dr. SungWoo Kahng moved to Baltimore with his wife to join the staff of the neurobehavioral unit at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Kahng became so engrossed in his work, treating...
Mt. Washington blogger attracts legions of readers with her honesty and wit.
Dear Jeff: Please, for the 101st time, do not use the same spoon for the peanut butter and for the jelly. Toast with butter and Jiffy-flavored jelly makes me want to vomit. In your face.
This letter...
For generations of Jewish Baltimoreans, summer means Camps Airy and Louise.
Sylvia Carmel is 66 years old, and she still goes to sleepaway camp every summer.
Carmel, who grew up in Baltimore and now lives in Glyndon, is a nurse at Stoneleigh Elementary School in Towson for...
More and more children are suffering with food allergies and doctors don't know why.
Imagine there's a time bomb attached to your child, one that could go off at any time and cause him or her life-threatening harm. That kind of knowledge would change the way your family lives and be...
The BSO hopes a music program creates social change at a West Baltimore elementary school.
If you think putting a violin in the hands of a six-year-old sounds premature, think again.
This month, first graders at Harriet Tubman Elementary School in West Baltimore will begin OrchKids, an...
Babies are the new rats of Baltimore City (adorable, cuddly rats, of course)—they're everywhere. And boy is Charm City taking notice. There is a website dedicated to their happiness (kidbaltimore.com...
The unpredictable, incomprehensible, and hilarious wisdom of kids.
Never a mommy, but now a nana. That’s me.
It’s a bit unusual, perhaps, but I never had kids of my own, and I married a man with children. Now, those children have babies of their own, making me...
Having a baby used to be one of the most dangerous, least predictable, and stressful events in a woman's life. To find out how much things have changed, we took an exclusive look at the state of modern childbirth at the region’s most popular obstetrics hospital.
On a far-from-tropical January day, Kristen Vanneman-Gooding sits under a poster of a palm tree in the waiting room of her obstetrician's office at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC). It...
Kids love their Heelys—but many local stores are putting their feet down when it comes to the sneakers.
Here's how to tell if your product is a hit: Do enough kids own it to make adults want to ban it? If so, you've got a winner. Take the case of Heelys, the sneaker skate with hidden, removable...
